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Long Island Rail Road concourse after renovation, 2023 The West End Concourse. Penn Station does not have a unified design or floor plan but rather is divided into separate Amtrak, LIRR and NJ Transit concourses with each concourse maintained and styled differently by its respective operator. [87]
The LIRR concourse, waiting room, amenities and platforms were expanded. Connections were provided to the New York City Subway stations at Seventh Avenue and Eighth Avenue. [36] The electrification of Penn Station was initially third rail, which provided 600 volts of direct current. [94]
English: LIRR Concourse of New York Penn Station, located under 33rd Street, with a raised ceiling height (to 18 ft / 5.5 m) following renovations as part of the Empire Station Complex project in 2019–2022. Construction is still underway in the concourse, though some new signs are already installed.
The overhaul of the LIRR concourse is part of a $559 million project that includes the construction of a shiny new entrance to Penn Station at 33rd St. and Seventh Ave., which opened in late 2020.
The MTA shined new light onto a corner of Penn Station on Tuesday. Officials unveiled a new 18-foot ceiling on the northeast corner of the train hub, part of its effort to expand the its northern ...
The station sits beneath Grand Central Terminal, which serves the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s Metro-North Railroad. [7] Grand Central Madison was built to reduce travel times to and from Manhattan's East Side and to ease congestion at Penn Station, the West Side station where all Manhattan-bound LIRR trains had terminated ...
Phase 1 consisted of the two fully-designed elements of the plan: an extended underground West End Concourse for the Long Island Rail Road and two entrances to the existing Penn Station platforms through the Farley Building on Eighth Avenue. [71] [72] [73] A groundbreaking ceremony took place on October 18, 2010. [74] [75] [76]
A promise to build a new LIRR station in Sunnyside to provide access to Penn Station was quietly abandoned by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration in 2016 as the East Side Access project to ...