Get while the gettin’s good.
“It will also fund a 30,000 square foot public plaza,”
Where will this public plaza be?
This is on the website ( A New Penn Station | Governor Kathy Hochul) - not sure where this is
That would be the public plaza/space zoned in between the Site 2 towers above the planned Penn South addition.
Latest update on work to allow Metro North trains to serve Penn Station:
Members of this Station Working Advisory Group (SWAG) said they were taken by surprise by the reversal, after several years of raised expectations that included elaborate renderings of a light drenched train hall, as well as even more elaborate plans presented by outside groups seeking to compete for approval to design a new station.
“It’s really pretty shocking to see how far they’ve pulled back,” one member of the advisory group said. Eliminated from their plans is a greenhouse like train hall built in the present taxiway on the east side of Madison Square Garden between 31st and 33d streets, according to advisory group members who received the briefing.
The taxiway was closed as a security precaution after the terrorist attack of 9/11. Also dropped was any plan to improve the loading bays for Madison Square Garden, which are too small to accommodate all the freight. The result is trucks jammed on the street outside The Garden. “The MTA’s answer was that’s MSGs problem,” one advisory group member reported.
Reopening the underground passage from Penn Station to Herald Square was also deferred. One dumbfounded member of the advisory group said the MTA’s new plans approached Penn Station like a big subway station.
Penn will always be MSG’s basement. Thats what it seems like they want it to always be. What an absolute disgrace.
Fucking pathetic. We don’t dream anymore in this city. The busiest train station in the country and they treat it like shit.
Hochul is the worst. I’m so sick of this entire saga.
This has drawn out for so long that I am now confused as to what the problem with doing anything is…
Not including MSG or money as a factor, what is the real issue that is preventing anything from being done?
Is it just because all the agencies don’t want to work together and want to act petulant at the expense of the stations users?
Why does the MTA even have such a big say if Amtrak is the one who owns the station/majority of the infrastructure under MSG?
MTA would have to contribute to this financially.
Open for business since December 23, his Penn Cellars liquor store is on the newly revived and widened Long Island Rail Road concourse at Penn Station. A huge wine selection compliments mahogany shelves, a quiet zone of contemplation in the busiest transportation complex in the nation, where an estimated 600,000 commuters pour through each weekday. Halfway down the concourse between 7th and 8th Avenues, the new wine cellar is open during most of the week from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; on Sundays, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Moving towards the Seventh Avenue end of the Concourse is the Penn Station Tracks Raw Bar and Grill. When plan approval is completed, which should be soon, construction permits will be issued, and another contractor, separate from the one used at Grand Central Madison, will oversee the project’s completion. While metal caused a slowdown at GCM, this Tracks will use mostly wood, including a similar mahogany to what is installed at Penn Cellars; there should not be any delays with that material. Tracks’ Penn Station iteration should be open around Memorial Day Weekend.
Hell yeah
That’s an awful pastiche, sorry.
The worst.
