I've read a complaint that there aren't enough seats available, for the general public, although the Metropolitan Lounge looks really nice.
Do you have to walk across the street to Grubbyville to board the trains?
Maybe the best thing about the Train Hall are the sparkling clean bathrooms with 3 faucet sinks. If they can only keep them clean.
The first shop that opened was a Starbucks!
Richard
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posted The Times has had much favorable content regarding the Train Hall
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The $1.6 billion Moynihan Train Hall opened at dawn on New Year’s morning — on budget, too, even a couple of months early. Instagram swooned. Tweeters channeled Stefon from “Saturday Night Live.”
In the midst of everything else, we needed this. New York needs this.
No, the huge, lofty train hall, with its soaring skylights, doesn’t magically resurrect the old Pennsylvania Station or extinguish the raging dumpster fire that is the current one. It leaves all sorts of herculean challenges and tasks around Penn Station unresolved. But it delivers on its promise, giving the city the uplifting gateway it deserves. When was the last time you could say something like that about a public works project.
This critic notes "It's not everything, but it's a start".
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In the midst of everything else, we needed this. New York needs this.
No, the huge, lofty train hall, with its soaring skylights, doesn’t magically resurrect the old Pennsylvania Station or extinguish the raging dumpster fire that is the current one. It leaves all sorts of herculean challenges and tasks around Penn Station unresolved. But it delivers on its promise, giving the city the uplifting gateway it deserves. When was the last time you could say something like that about a public works project?
Where does he think he's at; China?
Here is a further report from Gray Lady on a very sad event and that I submit here without comment:
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When the Moynihan Train Hall was unveiled to the public this month, it was hailed as one of New York’s most important public works projects in recent memory, a symbol of the city’s resilience through one of its darkest years. New Yorkers marveled at the acre of glass splashed across its 92-foot-tall atrium and the century-old steel trusses holding the large skylight in place.
But looming over the opening was a story of private tragedy.
For nearly a decade, one man, Michael Evans, had quietly shepherded the project to transform the historic Farley Post Office Building into a stately extension of the much-maligned Pennsylvania Station.
Though out of public view, Mr. Evans’s work would come to define the new hall and help ensure its legacy as one of New York’s architectural jewels, his colleagues say.
As project manager, he fought to preserve original steel trusses, brought in installations from world-renowned artists, traveled to a quarry in Tennessee to choose the best marble and paid his own way to Germany to personally inspect the glass that was manufactured for the large atrium.
But Mr. Evans, 40, never saw the product of his painstaking work. Nearly 10 months before the Moynihan Train Hall officially opened, he took his own life.
Finally, here is the famous Times Editorial published October 30, 1963 when the wrecking balls came a callin'.
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