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Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is probably turning in his grave right now. Plans for the Moynihan Station have been "derailed" as plans to discuss it have been postponed. Officials had been hoping that the Public Authorities Control Board would approve the project this year, so it would happen under Governor Pataki's term. But with opposition to and many questions surrounding the project, the NY Times reports "the Pataki administration took the proposal off the table again yesterday rather than risk a vote against it." Hello, brinksmanship!
Last week, there was a lot of press about the problems facing the potential transit center at the James Farley Post Office Building on Eighth Avenue. The Post reports that the vote will be delayed at least a week as State Comptroller Alan Hevesi and State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver have objections to the current proposal while there's another plan floating around for a bigger development in the background and to whether or not there will be adequate funding. Since Hevesi and Silver are both Democrats, one wonders if this is just Pataki-project-blocking. Kent Barwick of the Municipal Art Society, which supports to plan, tells the NY Sun, "What I don't know is what level of documentation that the PACB typically requires in a project that it approves. Is this good government diligence, or it there something else going on here?"
In April 2005, we guessed that the Moynihan Station would happen before a West Side Stadium or Second Avenue Subway. Right now, we're thinking the subway has the lead.
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Let me just bend over, on behalf of all the commuters who just got screwed. Again.
Well, it's a pretty building, which would be nice, but not essential.
The top priority should be LIRR east side access and the 2nd Ave subway, while Bloomberg believes the Fluhsing Line western expansion should be.
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They've been test drilling around various corners at 86th/2nd and 96th/2nd for about a month now, presumably to see where to put the stations.
Noo our top priority should be renaming it to something other then Moynihan Station.
Moynihan Street sounds sooo much better.
Once again, NYC is proved incapable of any large-scale infrastructure or capital improvements. This city is turning into a joke.
I know, let's turn the Farley PO into luxury condos!
This project is a waste of money - with LIRR going to Grand Central, there's no need to expand Penn Station. Also, the project would also remove commuter access to the 1/2/3 lines, and push the N/R and B/D/F another block away, since it will be situated between 8th & 9th avenues. Try getting to Yankee Stadium from the burbs. Money should be spent adding tunnels under the hudson, linking downtown to the airports, or finishing the 2nd avenue line.
Penn Station does need to be expanded, anlong with a second tunnel for NJ Transit Trains under the hudson. Risht now it is very congested, with NJ transit trains sharing tracks with Amtrak trains. With Northen New Jersey suppossed to add another 1 million people in the next 10 years as cities like Newark and Paterson get rebuilt...a new train tunnel is needed.
I know, lets tear down the Farley building and put up an ugly hockey rink.
The Farley Post Office is a National Landamrk...hello, dosnt anyone get that. You dont tear down or transform Landmarks. It is also named after James A. Farley, the man who installed FDR to the Presidency twice. What are we going to build a lower level onthe Brooklyn Bridge and rename it Bloomberg bridge. How about the Chrysler building, lets change the name of that too. Renaming the Farley Post office is the biggest con NY politicians have tried to pullin a long time. Build Moynihan Station and MSG, but dont try to strip Farleys name off his Landmark, this is America, not communist China. Congress named the Building after Farley, not insane NY Politicians. I was told the the ESDC was using a loophole in the NR landmarks listing to steal the Landmark because it is not "officially" listed as associated with a significant person. I was also told that the Historical community was going to step in and adjust the Criterion so that the Building is associated with Farley as a Historical Figure, which will force all parties to behave themselves, cause Farley was kick ass...Yey for the Historical Community