An "Urban Bowl" Penn Station?

Plans for a new Penn Station are in the works but it does require some negotiating with the long standing Madison Square Garden. NYC architects and city planners hope to reveal a drastically improved Penn Station by 2023 which, in recent years, has been an extremely overcrowded transit hub. 

To make this dream a reality, "the Garden would need to relocate to the Morgan postal facility between 28th and 31st streets and Ninth and Tenth avenues." Solutions that do not require the removal of the Garden from its current location are also in the works but sources of funding still need to be discussed. 

For more on the potential transformation of Penn Station visit ny.curbed.com. 

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Long in the Works Moynihan Station in First Phase of Construction

An expansion on Penn Station? Our beloved Grand Central may have some competition! This long-awaited Moynihan Station is beginning to make progress. 

Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Juan Miguel Lago

The first phase of the expansion, a $300 million dollar project, will include the following:

• An expansion of the existing concourses below the post office
• An underground passageway connected to Penn Station
• An emergency ventilation system
• Two new entrances at the corners of 8th avenue and 31st and 33rd streets

And that's not all! According to curbed, phase two "will turn the grand building into an open, light-filled train hall the size of Grand Central's grand hall."

For more on Moynihan Station's progress, click here. 

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