Trump open to moving NYC's gigantic Madison Square Garden for train station renovations: report

[highplainsdem]

Source: Independent

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He has listened to a proposal that would move the famed arena — which seats up to 20,000 people — in order to rebuild Penn Station, according to Gothamist. The station, a sprawling Beaux‑Arts structure, was demolished in the 1960s to make room for the stadium, but its underground concourses and platforms are still in use, servicing more than half a million daily riders.

A group of Trump supporters suggested the plan to the president during a White House meeting in September, multiple sources told the outlet. They represented the Grand Penn Community Alliance, a non-profit organization backed by Thomas Klingenstein, a conservative donor.

The audacious project — which has a price tag of about $7.5 billion — would include erecting classical columns at the train station’s entrance. Madison Square Garden would be relocated to Seventh Avenue, one block over.

The Oval Office sit-down, which had not previously been reported, took place four months before Amtrak named the proposal a finalist in the station's redevelopment plans. Two other finalists have been named, but few details about the project have since been revealed.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-madison-square-garden-penn-station-b2946506.html

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Klingenstein has also suggested that the new Penn Station be named Trump Station.

[Lovie777]

1. Please make it stop....................

[MLWR]

2. Why does Krasnov have a say in this? This should be under the purview of NY.

[Scrivener7]

8. Exactly. Who gives a shit what he thinks about this?

[IcyPeas]

3. Why do his sycophants put these ideas into his orange hair dye infected brain

[highplainsdem]

4. All of them want things from him in return for suggesting these monuments to him. Just one more way

to flatter the monster.

[Buddyzbuddy]

5. BULLSH*T! No such thing as a genuine non profit that supports the Felon.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. How the hell does he even get to give input into that decision?

[North Coast Lawyer]

7. I'm OK with this.

There are far worse ways for Trump to spend billions. If playing with real trains keeps Trump distracted and prevents him from doing further damage to the USA I'm all for it.

[Bayard]

10. $7.5 billion?

No. Just, no. That kind of money needs to go to healthcare and social programs, not another vanity project for trump.

Classical columns and his name slapped on it. No. No. No.

[delisen]

9. I would add a Trump Mausoleum,to be called The Trump Dump

[Akakoji]

11. This is the best idea I've heard in 50 years. I think.

MSG and that what especially is beneath it is so cost inefficient and poorly designed. But, both places must be rebuilt to fix inherent structural errors that were brilliantly worked around but using older information and designs. Really wish they would move MSG to Queens, though, and not Seventh Avenue. That would be a brilliant reason to finish the Second Avenue line of the MTA at the same time. Either way, this will be great for that area but take forever and be extremely disruptive. We are not calling it Trump Station. And, absolutely no way that takes less than $25 billion.