all right. new york penn station, a legendary station. it is one of the nation s busiest train hubs. it s also, by the way, sad to say, one of the ugliest. penn station serves some 600,000 rail commuter and subway passengers every day, amtrak, new jersey transit, long island railroad. you re looking at it right now. i call it affectionately the belly of the beast. i ve had many daily lunches there. 9 million amtrak passengers come and go every year from poorly lit underground platforms. stimulus money is going to a phase one expansion of the station, it has an estimated price tag of $1.5 billion. in the end, passengers could one day, there s what it will look like, that s an existing post office across the road, at the end of you could disembark at an