The state-run MTA has signed off on a bombshell 11th-hour report claiming both the station and World’s Most Famous Arena are not compatible.
The state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority has signed off on a bombshell 11th-hour report claiming that Penn Station and Madison Square Garden are no longer compatible together.
“The Garden’s site plan and loading arrangements may have been compatible with Penn Station and the surrounding community in the early 1960s,” the agency declared along with station tenants Amtrak and NJ Transit. “Today, however, MSG’s existing configuration and property boundaries impose severe constraints on the station that impede the safe and efficient movement of passengers and restrict efforts to implement improvements, particularly at the street and platform levels,” according to the analysis, first reported by theThe timing of the report’s release by the trio of railway giants is head-scratching, as city officials are set to decide whether the World’s Most Famous Arena can remain long-term at...
The City Planning Commission on June 7 will begin hearing testimony on MSG owner James Dolan’s bid toHe sought the same concession when MSG’s original, 50-year permit expired in 2013, but the City Council only The timing of the report’s release by the trio of railway giants had turned heads, as city officials are set to decide whether the arena can remain at its present site.
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