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Re: (rshsdepot) Amtrak Is Slow to Embrace New Pennsylvania Station
Everything you say is true, especially that building a travesty in the
middle of the landmark P.O. building is not only sad, but they are promoting
this as somehow bringing back the grandeur of the old masterpiece landmark
Pennsylvania Station..
But it will happen anyway....the fact that it is closer to the absurd
planned Jets Stadium probably is the clincher...the city will do anything to
get that nonsense done....
Paul
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From: <CoolGuy127_@_aol.com>
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Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Amtrak Is Slow to Embrace New Pennsylvania Station
> In a message dated 5/28/2004 8:38:15 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> brwagenblast_@_comcast.net writes:
> After years of delays, plans for a grand, new Pennsylvania Station built
> within the city's main post office building are being muddied by demands
> from Amtrak, the intended tenant, that it be allowed to use the space
> without paying any rent.
> ======================
>
> I'm glad to hear that Amtrak is taking this position.
>
> In my view, this "grand new" station is misplaced and misconceived.
As
> the New York Times article points out, it's located in the wrong place --
on
> the "wrong side of the tracks." People using Penn Station want to go
east,
> towards Seventh Avenue, while the new station would be between Eighth and
Ninth
> Avenues. Access to the station would be inconveniently located on 31st
and 33rd
> Streets, both relatively narrow, one-way streets. And access to the train
> platforms will also be less convenient, as they would be accessed from
their
> west end -- like a stub-end station -- rather than from the center, as
they
> presently are accessed.
>
> Moreover, the arguments that the new station would restore the glory
of
> the old Pennsylvania Station by incorporating the landmark General Post
Office
> Building are also misplaced. The only grand interior space in the GPO
> Building is the post office lobby, and the intent is to retain that for
postal use.
> The new station will require the demolition of the center portion of this
> landmark building and its replacement by a modern edifice that will clash
with the
> classic architecture of the Post Office Building.
>
> The real answer is to demolish the ugly and outmoded Madison Square
> Garden on top of the existing station and to rebuild a glorious new
station on the
> location of the existing Penn Station. Hopefully, Amtrak's position --
which
> I fully support -- will cause this ill-conceived plan to convert the
General
> Post Office into a train station to be abandoned entirely.
>
> Daniel Chazin
> Teaneck, NJ
>
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