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Moynihan Train Hall is an expansion of Pennsylvania Station, the main intercity and commuter rail station in New York City, into the city's former main post office building, the James A. Farley Building.
The hall also contains 120,000 sq ft (11,000 m 2) of retail space. [25] Moynihan Train Hall contains passenger facilities for Amtrak, its primary tenant. These include a ticketing and baggage area, a waiting lounge, conference spaces, and a balcony 20 ft (6.1 m) above the hall. [26]
A passageway connects the Eighth Avenue Line station with the Moynihan Train Hall, which opened in 2021. [37] Gallery. Entrance outside Moynihan Train Hall.
The $50 million project will link the High Line seamlessly to Moynihan Train Hall via Magnolia Court, which runs through Brookfield Properties' Manhattan West development.
In 2016 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced plans for the renovation of Penn Station and mixed-use redevelopment of the Farley Building, including development of a new train hall, which he called the Empire Station Complex. [59] In January 2021, the new expansion, Moynihan Train Hall, opened and was named for the man who had conceived it. [60]
The project, later renamed "Moynihan Train Hall", was split into two phases. The West End Concourse, opened in the eastern part of the former post office in June 2017. [148] The second phase, an expansion of Penn Station's facilities into parts of the post office building, [149] opened in January 2021. [150] [151]
Phase 2 consisted of the new train hall in the fully renovated Farley Building. In January 2016, New York governor Cuomo announced plans for a combined Penn-Farley Post Office complex, a project estimated to cost $3 billion. [243] [244] At that time, the project was renamed Moynihan Train Hall.
The expanded services will operate at Moynihan Train Hall, an expansion of Penn Station into the neighboring James A. Farley Building. [53] On September 28, 2021, the FTA issued a Finding of No Significant Impact for the project, allowing the project to move forward. [54]