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What Penn still needs are more tracks and platforms and new tunnels under the Hudson River - a project called Gateway, which, fingers crossed, might at last get funded with an Amtrak fanboy in the White House. Like a luxury box in a stadium, Moynihan was built essentially to benefit a privileged few. West Side development, even looking ahead several decades, is in fact not likely to account for more than a fraction of PennвЂ™s ridership. The metamorphosis of the neighborhood to the west of Moynihan into Singapore on the Hudson, with its rash of new office and high-priced apartment towers, including the architectural petting zoo called Hudson Yards, provided a demographic rationale for the train hall. I like it.ДЄs for circulation and access, an escalator and corridor tie the train hall to Ninth Avenue along what would be West 32nd Street. Walker and Ely Jacques Kahn to concoct a nostalgic, Art Deco confection. He riffs on FarleyвЂ™s industrial pedigree along with Ralph T.

The architect Peter Pennoyer won a competition to design it. And as in McKimвЂ™s station, a clock dangles above the middle of the train hall, begging to be met under.

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Arched windows allude to the Baths of Caracalla, one of McKimвЂ™s inspirations. The marble recalls the stone quarried for Grand Central. Norman FosterвЂ™s Great Court at the British Museum comes to mind (MoynihanвЂ™s grid shells are actually finer), as do classic 19th century European railway sheds and of course the concourse from Charles McKimвЂ™s original Penn Station.Д«ut Moynihan doesnвЂ™t pretend to exhume the concourse or compete with Grand Central. Those trusses, exposed and painted gray as is much of the hall, support catenary skylights, like inverted nets or inflated glass balloons, aerial feats of sculptural engineering and parametric design. Evans, the team at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill led by Roger Duffy and Colin Koop and the engineering firm Schlaich Bergermann have gifted the city with a new light-filled steel, glass and Tennessee marble cathedral, nearly the size of Grand Central TerminalвЂ™s main hall. He was president of the Moynihan Station Development Corporation and died, at the age of 40, in March. Michael Evans deserves a special shout out.

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Full credit to the governor for bringing all the key players together.

If you canвЂ™t picture it, Farley is that Beaux-Arts behemoth with the imperial staircase and Corinthian columns, occupying the entirety of the superblock between Eighth and Ninth Avenues and 31st and 33rd Streets. Farley Building, formerly the General Post Office, across Eighth Avenue from Penn Station. First: It converts what used to be a mail-sorting hall inside the James A. When was the last time you could say something like that about a public works project? But it delivers on its promise, giving the city the uplifting gateway it deserves. It leaves all sorts of herculean challenges and tasks around Penn Station unresolved. No, the huge, lofty train hall, with its soaring skylights, doesnвЂ™t magically resurrect the old Pennsylvania Station or extinguish the raging dumpster fire that is the current one. In the midst of everything else, we needed this. Tweeters channeled Stefon from вЂњSaturday Night Live.вЂќ After your review is published, you can edit itВ or change the rating and pictures you included.The $1.6 billion Moynihan Train Hall opened at dawn on New YearвЂ™s morning - on budget, too, even a couple of months early.

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