Amtrak and Vornado Realty Trust have recently completed the transformation of New York Penn Station‘s busiest entrance at Seventh Avenue and 32nd Street in Midtown, Manhattan, significantly enhancing accessibility and customer experience for the station’s 600,000 daily visitors.
The renovation includes a series of notable upgrades. A new ADA-compliant elevator has been installed, ensuring full accessibility for all passengers. The entrance now features three state-of-the-art escalators, increasing the capacity and efficiency of movement between the station’s mezzanine level and the entrance. Additionally, sidewalks along Seventh Avenue have been widened in partnership with the NYC Department of Transportation. The old concrete overhang was also replaced with a new glass canopy, allowing more natural light into the station. The entrance is also now marked by illuminated Penn Station signage.
Revamped Penn Station Entrance at 7th Avenue and 32nd Street, via amtrak.com
The project, a joint effort of Vornado and Amtrak, saw Vornado overseeing the design and street-level improvements, while Amtrak handled the concourse enhancements. The entrance’s design, including the glass canopy and interior lighting, was conceptualized by Foster + Partners.
“Together, we have reimagined and transformed one of the world’s busiest transit entrances,” said Steven Roth, CEO of Vornado Realty Trust. “Our collaborative effort with Amtrak has delivered something every New Yorker and every visitor to our city deserves. The new entrance is safer, more accessible, more spacious, and far more inviting for the hundreds of thousands of people who travel through Penn Station every day. Intentionally and systematically, we are transforming the Penn District into the new epicenter of Manhattan, a remarkable place to live, work, and experience the best that New York has to offer.”
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Hey the lattice over the entrance? This take away from the capacious feeling one gets from the massive overhang of the new One Penn.
Please restore the Gimbles passageway.
It is really needed now to complete this connection; i.e PATH to Penn station. In lower Manhattan, the Dey street passageway was built to connect the Fulton Transit Center with the WTC and Battery Pk City. The Gimbles passageway is already there, please restore it.
Living in Herald Square, this would be incredible although if I’m not mistaken the tunnel is quite narrow.
One ADA elevator for 600,000 people a day?!
Big improvement. Now remove the vagrants. That area has not Improved nearly as much as most of Manhattan has. It’s particularly bad after dark.
Put more cops in the area
Lol, why? NYPD doesn’t do anything. Someone was shot right in front of the Seventh Ave. entrance in broad daylight and they didn’t apprehend the man. Police presence, cameras and hundreds, if not thousands, of people and the dude just walked across the street and vanished. And to also mention, he was the same individual who caused a fight inside the station minutes before, so it wasn’t like they didn’t have any clue.
In the summer, I sometimes take an early train to the Jersey Shore. One had to practically step over the homeless sleeping on the floor or blocking stairways. The cops ignore them and tend to walk about the station in groups of 5 or 6. If they were spread out, I may not have been unpleasantly accosted by an aggressive beggar.
I had imagined that the grid would be protection from rain, but apparently not. Even without a bank, it will become a great place for direct desposit once the pigeons find it.
Just poor leadership in NYC. It’s just not bad enough for the simpletons of NYC to vote this crap out; but it’s getting there!
Now do something about the homeless bums walking around the station so it doesn’t always stink from urine.
Fat chance. Like SF, the city has been taken over by the extremist who like to have more homeless, hopeless and mindless people around, in order to show off how “progressive” they are. So, it will be like that until all the money and high credit line that Mike Bloomberg produced for the city is used up and bankruptcy looms again.
They should build more of Penn Station like restaurants,books
and retail stores and things it will look good and great for real
The whole Penn Station project will be finish by 2026 or 2028 for real
Fancy entrance won’t matter much with the human vermin that congregate in/out of PennSta.
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Just amazing that NYC is returning to the 1970’s.
The difference is that now, I go in once~twice a year, only when unavoidable.
Still looks and feels like entering a rat hole. What a loss was that grand old building. As Obama said it during his original campaign: You can put a lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig..
the whole Pennsylvania station protects
will be finish by 2025 or 2026 for real