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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo did not hold back in his grandiose unveiling of his vision for a $306 billion statewide infrastructure plan during his State of the State address Thursday, invoking Shakespeare, Mark Twain and former state Govs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and DeWitt Clinton of New Deal and Erie Canal fame, respectively.
But he did hold back details, opting instead to broadly reiterate in his fourth State of the State speech this week that New York will climb out of this pandemic and its economic fallout by building bigger and better and laying the foundation for our future with a priority of expanding access to mass transit.
arrow Cuomo also wants to acquire the MSG Theater to create a new entrance to Penn Station on 8th Avenue. Governor s Office
Quoting Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday unveiled a wide-ranging infrastructure vision that he argued would not only improve rail, air, and bus travel but also save New York from economic depression and prepare it for the next century.
His $306 billion-dollar plan focused on Midtown, and projects largely dependent on layers of slow federal and city bureaucracies. But if they came to pass they could fundamentally change the city.
The governor said he plans to “acquire” a square block to build a new station called Penn South, which would service NJ Transit train travel. Those trains would arrive on new tracks made possible by a new tunnel running under the Hudson River as part of the long-delayed Gateway Project.
Moynihan Train Hall: Itâs Stunning. And, a First Step.
A $1.6 billion transformation of a post office has given the city a lofty, light-filled steel, glass and marble cathedral, our critic writes.
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A multiple exposure consisting of 10 frames shows visitors and passengers moving through the new Moynihan Train Hall.Credit.Bryan Derballa for The New York Times
The $1.6 billion Moynihan Train Hall opened at dawn on New Yearâs morning â on budget, too, even a couple of months early. Instagram swooned. Tweeters channeled Stefon from âSaturday Night Live.â
In the midst of everything else, we needed this. New York needs this.
New train hall opens at Penn Station, echoing building’s former glory | The Daily Gazette
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By Christina Goldbaum/The New York Times and Gazette Staff |
December 30, 2020
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NEW YORK For more than a half-century, New Yorkers have trudged through the crammed platforms, dark hallways and oppressively low ceilings of Pennsylvania Station, the busiest and perhaps most miserable train hub in North America.
Entombed beneath Madison Square Garden, the station served 650,000 riders each weekday before the pandemic, or three times the number it was built to handle.
But as more commuters return to Penn Station next year, they will be welcomed by a new, $1.6 billion train hall complete with more than an acre of glass skylights, art installations and 92-foot-high ceilings that Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who championed the project, has likened to the majestic Grand Central Terminal.