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Saturday, January 16, 2021

A new train hall for Amtrak in the Big Apple

After nearly three decades of stop and go, the James Farley Post Office was rechristened as Moynihan Train Hall to start out the year. It's basically a relocation for Amtrak outside of Trains #65-67, which will continue using Penn Station. Even though the pictures and stories talk about recovering some lost glory post-1963, I tend to agree with Vice, which said that it's "a temple to modern mediocrity." It is very much a reflection of passenger train policy that has dominated America since the 1950s. Nothing really great, just trying to keep up or doing the bare minimum. I stand by everything that I said in 2013 when I said that Madison Square Garden needed to move, and it looks like that plans are finally in place for that to happen.