Penn Station Renews to Include New Entrance to 33rd Street

With just over two years before James Farley's former post office is transformed into the new Moynihan Train Hall, newcomers will be adding to the transit center, according to Gov. Andrew. Cuomo. one step forward."

At an event at the Pennsy, the Penn Station dining hall, Cuomo announced a series of additions to the current Moynihan Train Hall plan, including a new entrance to Long Island's lobby. Rail Road and a permanent pedestrian plaza in front of Penn Station.

According to Cuomo, Penn's current entrances are insufficient in terms of both capacity and security. The new entrance would be improved: it would be located on 33rd Street, between the seventh and eighth avenues, which was cordoned off for several years to allow pedestrians to circulate. The proposal announced by Cuomo today would make this permanent closure, allowing the creation of a dedicated, more designed place. A neighborhood-wide improvement plan is also planned, in collaboration with the local community council and other municipal officials.

The new entrance would lead to a redevelopment of the Long Island Rail Road Corridor, which, according to Cuomo, would have wider corridors (he likened the current ones to "catacombs" and declared that they added to a feeling of claustrophobia) . and more "passenger amenities" like stores. It would be located on the north side of the largest Penn-Moynihan complex, closer to 33rd Street.

The cost of the new entrance and the new square has not been indicated to the presser and, even if renderings show what the addition might look like, no drawing is yet fixed. (SOM is working on the largest renovation of the Moynihan Train Hall.) Empire State Development, which oversees Moynihan's transformation, will take the lead on this; According to Cuomo, the entrance should ideally open at the same time as the renovation of the big train station, which should begin at the end of 2020 or early 2021.

The event allowed Cuomo to praise his administration's achievements in infrastructure – what he called "the country's most aggressive construction program" – including the proposed redevelopments of State airports (LaGuardia and JFK), the new Jacob K. Javits Center, and the deployment of broadband throughout the state. (He only briefly touched on the funding required to put in place solutions to the broken transit system, with a slide reading "CONGESTION PRICE?")

"We are left behind," Cuomo said of federal infrastructure investments. "We are in New York, we do not depend on anyone, we create our own future and we do not wait."

This also occurred a week before the Democratic primary elections, during which actress and activist Cynthia Nixon challenges Cuomo. Just yesterday, she issued an announcement asking the governor to tackle the deterioration of the New York subway. "While the new entrances and matching color tiles and countdown clocks are nice, the Governor has not really given priority to quality of service," she said in a statement. . Transit problems in New York.

"The reality of the situation is that Andrew Cuomo has failed New Yorkers. The LIRR and MTA have been operating at worst for decades, but as we all know, the Governor admits only to be responsible when he can take credit for something positive, and he steal responsibility when it does not benefit him "reads