Pennsylvania Station, short-Penn Station, we see the top (left) on a photograph from 1929, is certainly one of the celebrity A-Gone Buildings of New York City. I The building has a full series in this blog devoted to, but would now stoking a handful of images from the time that I at that time were not available.
As would be the one this card from the collection of David Rumsey, showing the neighborhood as it looked in 1891, almost 20 years before the magnificent railway station was built there.
http://www.davidrumsey.com/ 
left we see the vertical run and 8th Avenue right in the middle of the 7th Avenue, the street, which is also top of the photo sees. The Pennsylvania Station was placed on the upper and mid-block between these two avenues and covered (and covered) the area between 33rd and 31st Avenue. The number of houses that once stood on the two blocks and you can see here are torn down long ago and forgotten.
extent to which the buildings on the block between 31st and 30th Street including still, I can not say. St. John the Baptist, a Catholic church built in 1872, is still documented at the point on the map, I passed by during my visit in September / October 2010 there.
This church is not hard on the photo below from 1907 to identify which was taken from the 7th Avenue (in the foreground). The road between the front edge of the trench and building in the middle is the 31st Street. In the huge excavation work on the ground Pennsylvania Station are already powerful in progress, but until its completion in 1910 it took another 3 years.
Finally, there are 4 shots from the Pennsylvania Station during the construction phase, which arose in 1908. Who is (again) got the taste and would like to pay a detailed visit to the Penn Station can follow the path here:
http://nygeschichte.blogspot.com/2010/09/complete-pennsylvania-station.html 
Sources: Google, David Rumsey and NYPL Digital Gallery
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