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Gilbert B Norman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 8:33 am "Daddy, what's a print edition"?LOL.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Sunday that the High Line will be extended to connect to the newly opened Moynihan Train Hall, a project that he said help spur development in the surrounding neighborhoods and boost an economy facing a deep crisis because of the pandemic.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/nyre ... -line.html
Pensyfan19 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:11 pm I´ve always wondered about the ¨diagonal platform¨ or ¨mail platform¨ adjacent to tracks 1 and 2 and due south of the edges of tracks 9 and 10. (the only platform on the image thatś black and curves) Is this platform still used, are there any photos of it, and can it be connected by Moynihan Station?Doesn't look like it was that easy to get mail trains into or out of that platform.
bostontrainguy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 7:07 pmIt probably was directly connected before the track reconfiguration when Amtrak moved from Grand Central Terminal and the Empire connection was built.Pensyfan19 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:11 pm I´ve always wondered about the ¨diagonal platform¨ or ¨mail platform¨ adjacent to tracks 1 and 2 and due south of the edges of tracks 9 and 10. (the only platform on the image thatś black and curves) Is this platform still used, are there any photos of it, and can it be connected by Moynihan Station?Doesn't look like it was that easy to get mail trains into or out of that platform.
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.
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.
