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The existing west end concourse for the LIRR is blocked off and lots of jack-hammering was apparent as I went by this morning.
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bleet wrote:The existing west end concourse for the LIRR is blocked off and lots of jack-hammering was apparent as I went by this morning.
The governor’s initiative in Manhattan involves projects on both sides of Eighth Avenue, between 31st and 33rd Streets, where Madison Square Garden sits atop the warren of narrow and confusing passageways in Penn Station.
Mr. Cuomo said the state, along with Amtrak and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, would solicit proposals from developers whose options would include the creation of a grand glass-walled entrance to Penn Station on Eighth Avenue.
The project could entail razing the 5,600-seat theater that sits beneath Madison Square Garden, upgrading the shops in the complex, and adding new entrances on Seventh Avenue or 33rd Street.
Developers would undertake the project, Mr. Cuomo said, in return for the rights to control all the retail shops in Penn Station.
Simultaneously, the state and its partners will solicit a developer for the long-gestating plan to turn the nearly vacant James A. Farley Post Office into a train station and a giant waiting room for Amtrak passengers, as well as shops and office space.
David Benton wrote:What has happened to the proposal to use the old post office building?That is the old Post Office Bldg in the rendering. In a nice touch, they carefully lettered in words inscribed above the grand stairs and collonnade:
ThirdRail7 wrote:Still, a new tent on the same circus.Seems to me it is fairer to say this is 3 new tents (Amtrak, LIRR, NJT) on the same circus.
ThirdRail7 wrote:Well, the good news is they will extend the reach of the Empire Connection as part of the project. I believe it will reach to track 14.Does that really buy much though?
Still, a new tent on the same circus.
Greg Moore wrote:is this for the addition of Metro North trains?I assume that's it: West Side Access: Thru-run Penn Station access from MNRR Coop City to Penn using LIRR space freed up by East Side Access, and then upgrade Empire Connection for "Upper West Side" and "W 125th St" stations and then to Spuyten Duyvil. Optional thru-running U route within NYC boundaries.