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Entering the Hall from Penn Station. Moynihan Train Hall occupies part of the James A. Farley Building, a Beaux-Arts structure designed by McKim, Mead & White alongside the original Penn Station, and opened in 1914 as New York City's main post office. [2]
Pennsylvania Station (often abbreviated to Penn Station) was a historic railroad station in New York City that was built for, named after, and originally occupied by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). The station occupied an 8-acre (3.2 ha) plot bounded by Seventh and Eighth Avenues and 31st and 33rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan.
Portions of the James Farley Post Office were adaptively reused and converted to a new head house for Penn Station, called Moynihan Train Hall, which houses Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] The first phase, consisting of new exits, a connection to the New York City Subway at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue , and an expanded ...
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]
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The Moynihan Station project would expand Penn Station into the James Farley Post Office building across the street; the first phase, consisting of the west end concourse, opened in June 2017. [42] Ground for the second phase was broken in August 2017, [43] and Moynihan Train Hall opened in January 2021. [44]
Go is the title of a pair of artworks by the American artist Kehinde Wiley.Both pieces depict young black people set against blue skies. The first piece, a series of oil paintings executed in 2003, are in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum; the second is a stained-glass triptych designed for the ceiling of the Moynihan Train Hall at Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
A fact from Moynihan Train Hall appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 January 2021 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that U.S. senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan proposed an expansion of New York Penn Station as a homage to the original station, where he had once shined shoes?