Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'pennplaza'
March 5, 2008
The Friends of Moynihan Station shared a rendering of what Moynihan Station will look like, according to NY State. According to FMS, the Empire State Development Corporation has been "reluctant" to share them, but FMS thinks "looks great," though there's a lot that needs to be explained. The Observer broke down what's in the rendering:In the bottom of the picture is the Farley Post Office with a new Madison Square Garden in the rear.......
Continue Reading "Moynihan Station Area Might Look Like This"October 23, 2007
The state released the draft scope for the Moynihan Station project today, and while the details have yet to be finalized, The New York Sun outlines the document's major components. Madison Square Garden will be moved into the rear of the Farley Post Office Building, which will be renamed Moynihan Station. A remade Penn Station will be renamed Moynihan East and will feature a sky-lit train hall surrounded by a million square feet of retail......
Continue Reading "Latest Details on Moynihan/Penn Station Project"September 4, 2007
From 1910 until 1963, when New York actually had a Pennsylvania Station instead of a dingy 1960s subterranean rat warren beneath a hockey rink and office towers, twenty-two stone eagles stood guard over the McKim, Mead, and White masterpiece. The eagles themselves, along with almost all the other stone artwork on the station were the work of artist Adolph A. Weinman, who among other things created Civic Fame atop the Municipal Building and the......
Continue Reading "Keep an Eagle Eye Out for Penn Station Eagles"June 6, 2007
MOVIE: By now you've probably seen Grizzly Man. The Werner Herzog directed documentary depicts one (slightly off kilter) man's relationship with nature. Over the course of 13 summers, Timothy Treadwell lived amongst the animals - most notably the bears, in the Alaskan wild. You know this doesn't end well. 5:30pm and 9:20pm // Film Forum [209 W Houston St] // $10.50 SIGNING: Kanye West will be helping his mom, Donda, sell her book today at......
Continue Reading "Pencil This In"February 5, 2007
Today the NY Times introduces us to the man behind some of the city’s most boring buildings. Costas Kondylis, aka the Developer’s Architect, is a skyscraper-embracing traditionalist whose clients have included Donald Trump, Larry Silverstein, Related Companies (developer of the Time Warner Center), Forest City Ratner Companies (developer of The New York Times building and, of course, the Atlantic Yards project) and Vornado Realty Trust (the Penn Plaza towers), among others. Kondylis, who's worked on......
Continue Reading "Costas Kondylis: A Developer's Dream"January 22, 2007
Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an electric shock at 10 Penn Plaza, a fall victim down a hole at Beaver and William Street, and a person stuck between train cars at 96th Street on the 2/3. A tip from Marianne, via Gothamist Contribute: "The public should not be alarmed by activity beginning tomorrow in the vicinity of the Brooklyn Bridge. Beginning tomorrow at 4:00 PM, Tuesday, January 23, and continuing on weekdays through January,......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra"June 14, 2006
Ooh - the Observer looks at how New York City will convince the Democratic National Committee to hold the 2008 Convention here. We pieced together their itinerary from the article, and clearly, the mayor misses having the International Olympic Committee to woo. :Today - Check into Ritz Carlton (Central Park South, we assume) tongiht - Hansom cab ride through Central Park - Dinner at Mayor Bloomberg's townhouse Thursday - Breakfast at Gracie Mansion - Tour......
Continue Reading "Bloomberg Goes After the Democrats"June 5, 2006
Thinking of all the college grads who just busted their asses looking for reasonably priced rentals in the city, the NY Times looked at one-bedroom rentals in the $1,000 range. The perhaps-catch: None were in Manhattan, but that may be due to the fact that many Manhattan deals "often change hands by word of mouth." Quite a few of the apartments sounded nice, but Gothamist enjoyed the ritual of the Times actually attempting to find......
Continue Reading "$1,000 Rentals and Phantoms"March 23, 2006
The Onion may have been joking about a Franz Ferdinand member getting injured, but one of them really did! The odds were pretty good it was going to happen...a few Scottish boys, on a scissor lift being hurled towards the sky in New York City...bottle of vintage Scotch in hand. Yeah, that scenario only ends with a first aid kit. We'll explain now. Fuse studios received a (very expensive) facelift recently, and is now located......
Continue Reading "Franz Ferdinand's Fuse"October 3, 2005

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September 12, 2005
With all the discussion about a new, gleaming West Side Stadium for the Jets has definitely sparked a competitive spirit in the Dolans beyond just trying to knock down the Jets' bid: The NY Times says that Madison Square Garden officials have been investigating the possibility of moving to Eighth Avenue and 31st-33rd Streets - right at the soon-to-be Moynihan Station at the Farley Post Office! Madison Square Garden has been long lamented as being......
Continue Reading "Madison Square Garden May Move Again"
