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After Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver blocked Governor Pataki's Moynihan Station plans last October, we wondered how Governor Spitzer would take up the task and spar with Silver. To refresh your memory, Spitzer's problem with Pataki's Moynihan Station plans was that they were incomplete, given that developers had more extensive ideas about a Farley Post Office and Madison Square Garden revitalization (known as "plan B"); Pataki, on the other hand, wanted to get the plan A moving to take advantage of federal funds.
Today, the Observer has an extensive story about how Spitzer aide Patrick Foye is handling the project, meeting with developers the day after the election to get things moving. Reporter Matthew Schuerman gets a bitter beans comment from Pataki flunky Charles Gargano about the developers' plan B ("I thought they got a little too cute"). But even better is how Maura Moynihan describes Foye:
“He was very nuts-and-bolts. He laid out this and this and this—all the things that needed to get done to make this thing happen,” said Maura Moynihan, the daughter of the late Senator after whom the renovated Farley Post Office will be named. (She told The Observer the story about the post-Election Day meeting.) “He is this wonderful Irish gentleman from Long Island who must suffer the indignities of the pit on a daily basis coming in on the Long Island Rail Road. Everybody is stunned and amazed by the energy that the Spitzer team is bringing to this project.”A scoop and a dis about Penn Station! But it's true, Penn Station sucks, though the new NJ Transit facilities are somewhat better.
Wikipedia's Future of Penn Station entry, because the whole affair is very confusing.
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Ok, I'll believe it when I see it .
After Pataki's do-nothing attitude, I"m sure any level of energy is amazing.
Why don't we just rebuild the old Penn Station?
I think everyone has failed to notice that congress named the Amtrak Station after Moynihan,
not the entire LANDMARK James A. Farley Building. James A. Farley is a native New Yorker and Historically and culturally significant to our countries history, Daniel Patrick Moynihan is not a native New Yorker, nor has cultural and or historical significance. Also Daniel Patrick Moynihan has a federal courthouse named after him in lower manhatten already. I think it is disgusting that Maura Moynihan is using her influence on the Reginal Planning Association in an attempt to supplement her Fathers name for that of Farley's name from his congressionaly designated Landmark. How can the building be Jim Farley's monument, and Moynihan's Monument.
After all Daniel Moynihan is quoted as saying he wanted "Good old jim Farley's name to stay right there". Since everyone believes Moynihan to be such a genious, why dosnt the ESDC head the late Sen. advise? I hope someone sues them in "good old Jim Farley's" name.
The ESDC has no right to rename the building after Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The building was named as a monument to James A. Farley as an act of congress. The James a. Farley Building is a historic landmark, named after a culturally and historically significant individual, James A. Farley. Congress renamed the Amtrack station after Moynihan, not the entire LANDMARK Farley Post Office. Read the bill, its on wikipedia.
James A. Farley is a native New Yorker, while Daniel Moynihan is not. James A. Farley is histroically associated with the Post Office due to his construction of the Farley Annex. Daniel Patrick Moynihan is not associated with the landmark nor is he historically or culturally significant as a politician while Mr. Farley is.
It is very disturbing that Maura Moynihan is using her influence on the Reginal Planning Association in an attempt to remove James A. Farley's name from his congressionally designated monument, and supplement that with her Fathers name. Daniel Moynihan already has a federal courthouse named after him in lower manhatten.
Since all parties seem to consider Moynihan such a genious...maybe they should heed his words in regards to the renaming of the Post office after him, "Good old jim Farley's name should stay there" the late Sen. Proclaimed. I hope someone sues the responsible parties for this fraud on one of our nations finest Landmarks, in " good old Jim Farley's " name.