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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]
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 ...
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 .
An agreement for the first phase was reached in early 2019, and a groundbreaking ceremony took place in December 2022. New Haven Line trains are tentatively expected to run into Penn Station in 2027. The opening of East Side Access will allow the expanded services to operate at Moynihan Train Hall, an expansion of Penn Station.
These stations are a long way away from reaching the heights of the US busiest station, Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station in New York, which received over 10.2 million passengers in 2023.
34th Street–Penn Station is an express station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of 34th Street and Eighth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. It is served by the A and E trains at all times, and by the C train at all times except late nights.
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. [60] In January 2021, the new expansion, Moynihan Train Hall, opened and was named for the man who had conceived it. [61]
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.