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In May 2013, four architecture firms released concepts for redeveloping Penn Station without Madison Square Garden above it, by moving the Garden a few blocks southwest to the Morgan Postal Facility, [128] to the area south of the James Farley Post Office, [128] or to a new pier west of Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
[57] [58] [59] The MTA says that the new station will "make it possible for new housing, restaurants and entertainment to grow" in the surrounding neighborhoods, including Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea. [61] The station is also close to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. [62] Passenger access to the station includes a pair of incline elevators ...
The West Side Line, also called the West Side Freight Line, is a railroad line on the west side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.North of Penn Station, from 34th Street, the line is used by Amtrak passenger service heading north via Albany to Toronto; Montreal; Niagara Falls and Buffalo, New York; Burlington, Vermont; and Chicago.
As plans developed, they included a mixed-use real estate development by Related Companies and Oxford Properties over the MTA's West Side Yard; [76] a renovation of the Javits Convention Center; [77] and the 7 Subway Extension to the 34th Street–Hudson Yards station at 34th Street and 11th Avenue, which opened on September 13, 2015.
The West Side Yard, between Penn Station and the Hudson River, as it appeared before the Hudson Yards real estate development project broke ground in 2012.. The West Side Yard (officially the John D. Caemmerer West Side Yard) is a rail yard of 30 tracks owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the west side of Manhattan in New York City.
Despite the completion of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in 1986, no further development took place. One impediment to development was a lack of mass transit in the area, which is far from Penn Station, and none of the proposals for a link to Penn Station were pursued successfully (for example, the ill-fated West Side Transitway). [20]
The "Javits New York Medical Station", a field hospital set up in the Javits Center, April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City , the Javits Center was adapted for use as a temporary 2,000-bed alternate care site to treat COVID-19 patients, [ 77 ] [ 78 ] [ 79 ] though the number of beds ...
The station was expected to be very heavily used, due to its location as "the only subway line serving the area west of Ninth Avenue below 59th Street", as well as its status as the main subway station for the Hudson Yards area [88] and the closest station to the busy Javits Center.