As far as Farley is concerned, I can’t say I am sorry about it, and the money could be better spent on something else. Farley being southwest of the current Penn Station, it is simply too far off the beaten path for rail passengers when you consider the location and logistics of subway and commuter train connections, and to where in Manhattan most people are headed, which tends to be to the east and north. I was a LIRR commuter through there for 13 years - I know the turf.

Four subways run north-south along Broadway, 6th, 7th, and 8th Avenues with platforms for each of their “34th Street” stations, not all lined up evenly, having their own street entrances as well stretching from 31st to 35th Streets. With Farley starting on the southwest corner of 8th and 31st, then continuing both south and west another block, it would neither be a convenience, or even a grand place where most would choose to enter the facility.

Sorry, but this is not the New York equivalent of the Great Hall of Chicago Union Station.

Comment by Joe M. Versaggi  on  02/27  at  08:18 AM