Moynihan Train Hall Opens at Penn Station

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NEW YORK - The $1.6 billion project transformed the more than one hundred year-old James A. Farley post office on 8th Avenue and 33rd Street into a state-of-the-air transit hub.

Commuters who take the LIRR and Amtrak can head to the new train hall to catch their trains.

Governor Andrew Cuomo cut the ribbon on the 255,000-square-foot transit hub for Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road commuters, providing them a bright and spacious alternative to the dingy and cramped Penn Station.

The project is the brain child of the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan from back in the 1990s, but Governor Cuomo took the venture and put it into fruition starting in 2017.

The big draw for the people who headed there Friday was the 92-foot-high Skylight.

Read more: https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2021/01/01/moynihan-train-hall-opens-at-penn-station
(Spectrum News)

[secondwind]

1. It's magnificent! I'm a proud New Yorker born and raised in Manhattan........ and always happy to

see the changes as time goes by... what a beautiful place to go and catch a train!!!

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2. Damn. I missed it. I lived in NY for 30 years...after the original Penn Station...

was torn down (I understand it was beautiful and majestic) and left before this new and gorgeous one was finished.

Well, happy travels and commutes New Yorkers. I inow everyone is happy to get out of that basement barn under the Garden.

[Golden Raisin]

3. I remember the old Penn Station from my childhood.

It was magnificent, massive and architecturally based on the ancient Roman Baths of Caracalla.

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4. Thank you. I didn't know that. I'm an architecture buff so I looked up...

the Baths of Caracalla. Thanks for the tip. I learn something new everyday on DU.

[electric_blue68]

5. In the tumult of the drump years + cv19 restrictions...

I forgot about this ( and it was proposed a good what let back) !

Was I surprised it opened! Look forward to visiting it
when cv19 is way more under control.