Penn Station task force starts push to make transit hub more residential

A Penn Station task force helmed by Manhattan’s Community Board 5 outlined its long-term goal of increasing housing in the station’s surrounding area and

Urban designer Shachi Pandey presents the Community Led Improvement Programs task force’s goals for Penn Station’s redevelopment.to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!

“The Penn CLIP process offers us a new path to generate a range of housing options with a focus on affordability that will accommodate our district’s fair share of the population growth,” said David Sigman, a community board member. For help, CLIP brought on an urban designer consultant named Shachi Pandey, whose specialty lies in eliciting planning ideas from neighbors and daily commuters and translating them into policy suggestions.

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