(rshsdepot) Moynihan Station, New York, NY

["Bernie Wagenblast" <brwagenblast_@_comcast.net>]

Original article in The Village Voice at:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/03/new_moynihan_tr.
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Bernie Wagenblast

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New Moynihan Train Station Getting Closer

Remember that Moynihan Station people have been trying for years to put at
the site of the Farley Post Office at 34th Street? The project that's
supposed to restore some of the glory eradicated when the old, beautiful
Penn Station was destroyed and replaced by the new, awful Madison Square
Garden? Now that Obama is dishing out stimuli, Senator Chuck Schumer wants
$100 million for the new station, says the Times, as well as a $1 billion
kick-in from the Port Authority. 

Schumer's push comes at a propitious moment: last week the Municipal Art
Society elected a new chairman, David Childs, who happens to be the lead
architect on the Moynihan project. The Society has been a power in city
planning for 115 years. They've poked their nose into other recent projects,
including the revivification of Coney Island, but they've been campaigning
for a Moynihan Station for years and are clearly hot to get it started.
Their current idea is to knock out MSG and build a new stadium into the
Moynihan complex, freeing the current stadium site for "private
development." 

Though developers in New York have been taking a beating lately, the ones
with the rights to this project have reason to be optimistic. The city's
elite have long been in favor of it so long as government funding could be
obtained, and if any project was made for the rail-friendly, shovel-ready
Age of Obama, this is it. 

We are agnostic on this project, but are pleased that a green light for
Moynihan Station would probably bring back the proposed underground midtown
pedestrian tunnels, which will be a great pleasure to all of us, especially
when the New Depression really hits and some of us will enjoy sleeping in
them. 


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