Gothamist: Moynihan Station Delayed Again

elliot

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:15:50 -0500

Here's a crazy thought: If they really want to put office towers on the post office, let them, but in exchange, move Madison Square Garden (which is no longer square, but that's an aside) next door to the Javits Convention Center. Take the now-empty block and build a new Penn Station on the site, where it was initially built. It doesn't have to be a copy of the old station, but it should be something spectacular, a building for the ages. This could work very nicely, insofar as the blocks around 10th and 11th avenues and 30th to 33rd streets are rail yards. So build the new Garden over the yards, connect it to Javits Center, and not only does the City now have a new Penn Station, but also a new Garden and expanded convention center to compete with Las Vegas, on land where once was an eyesore (I love trains, but not so much railyards). Will it be cheap? Of course not, but nothing worth doing ever is, and it separates convention and sports traffic from commuter traffic. Just a thought

jmchez

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:44:45 -0500

I give up! We get the government we deserve and we keep electing these bozos. The city that let the old, magnificent Penn Station be demolished so that a disposable glass and steel drum be put up on top of an ugly basement bus depot is about to let it happen again. The Dolans have no shame, Spitzer has no shame, Silver has no shame and Pataki is just inept or too stupid to have any shame. Pataki was the one that force the selection committee to go against their own judgment and select the Libeskind fortress of solitude design over the Think Team's lattice towers because some family members did not like twin towers anymore. Now we have a Freedom Tower design that looks nothing like the original Libeskind concept. In fact, it looks like one of the original rejected ideas. This state's government sucks!

Four more years of stagnation

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:43:06 -0500

Spitzer is shameless. What I wouldn't give to have seen him actually try a case. Instead, he let the Wall Street firms off with fines equivalent to about 1 week of profits.

Kevin Walsh

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:54:30 -0500

Once they yoked a new MSG to the project it was dead on arrival. Shelly wants nothing built in midtown before hsi area in downtown is developed. www.forgotten-ny.com

zincink

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:50:13 -0500

its all about money...and how to go about coating the inner lining of their pockets. I highly doubt they give a crap about commuters or their safety.

Tim N.

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:41:26 -0500

Far be it from me to take a developer's side about anything, but if this is the same plan that was written up in the Times a few weeks ago, it does deserve some consideration. The plans for the station seemed better in the Plan B, with a giant glass ceiling, and it did look beautiful. Plus the area around where they would build (I work in Two Penn Plaza) is a dump. It seemed from the article that Governor Shitforbrains and his people were trying to rush their plan through so that they could claim some glory in these dark ages of their administration. Two sides to everything, I guess. I know it benefits the scum-of-the-earth Dolans and puts money in developer's pockets, but sometimes they've got a good idea.

Please

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:17:11 -0500

AMEN, please, may the officials get beyond the maneuvering and get this done, it'd be a real boon for real New Yorkers.

comptroller_atkins

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:48:04 -0500

Seriously, it'd be a commuter's dream to not have to wade through the living nightmare that Penn Station is. For once, give the public something that just ... is!!!!!!!