Two Penn Station Plans Finally Look Buildable

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28 street view [2 Penn Station Plans — 1 Official, 1 Not — Finally Look Buildable]( Could they converge to make the nation’s worst rail hub much better? Photo: Courtesy of ASTM, PAU, and HOK Perhaps you’re in the market for a new train station — a new Penn Station to be precise — but you’re finding it difficult to know which one to buy. How about the MTA’s $7 billion glass-box version with the two-block-long skylight over the waiting area? Alternatively, the private company ASTM has just floated a $6 billion stone-clad model with a grand Eighth Avenue entrance. The pricing is squishy, the product specifications mystifying, and the delivery date vague, so you might consider a Frankensteinian combo of the two. Both options offer a more civilized environment to sprint through for the 5:55 p.m. to Massapequa. Neither will make the trip itself go faster, give commuters more trains to choose from, or diminish the risk of a catastrophic tunnel closure under the Hudson; that requires a whole different set of features and many more billions. So then, we could always just mull the possibilities for another decade or two and keep patching up the old thing one soggy ceiling tile at a time. Governor Kathy Hochul and, by extension, New York taxpayers face a confusing set of choices — but at least we have choices, and a plan for an achievable, possibly even excellent, future station is emerging. [Continue reading »]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [‘I Wasn’t Prepared for How the Art World Treated Hannah’ A conversation with the Brooklyn Museum’s director, Anne Pasternak, a few weeks after the debut of “It’s Pablo-matic.”]( By Emily Gould [The Great Resignation Was Actually Because of the Pandemic Housing Boom Boomers sold their houses and quit their jobs.]( By Adriane Quinlan [Who Wins the Plaza? It’ll either be the Four Seasons or the Raffles Hotels & Resorts that’ll end up managing it.]( By Clio Chang [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( Introducing The City Desk, a weekly newsletter about New York. [Sign up to get it every Thursday](. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved