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Moynihan Station Phase One breaks ground

Juliette Michaelson on October 18, 2010 |

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From left to right: Moynihan Station Development Corporation President Timothy Gilchrist, Elizabeth Moynihan, Maura Moynihan, Governor David Paterson, US Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Senator Charles Schumer, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch and State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

A wide range of New York and federal officials broke ground today on Phase One of the construction of Moynihan Station. Prior to the groundbreaking, Governor Paterson and Secretary LaHood signed a final grant agreement providing $83 million in Recovery Act funds to New York through the U.S. Department of Transportation's "Transportation Initiatives Generating Economic Recovery" (TIGER) program.

Construction of Phase One, which includes new entrances to Penn Station through the Farley building, a wider and longer West End Concourse, more escalators from the platforms and other infrastructure work, started this month and will be completed by 2016. The project is scheduled to take 6 years because work is restricted to nights and weekends.

Click through for reactions from the Friends of Moynihan Station, and new renderings of the project.

Bob Yaro, President of the Regional Plan Association, said: "We're very pleased this critical project is finally getting underway, after years of delay. There is no more important project for creating needed transportation capacity in the regional rail system and for catalyzing the redevelopment of New York's Far West Side."

Vin Cipolla, President of the Municipal Art Society said: "Today we celebrate the start of the first phase of one of the most important public works project in the northeast, one that will in the near term create jobs and ease crowding in congested Penn Station, and in the long term improving rail infrastructure and sustainability for the region."

Denise Richardson, Managing Director of the General Contractors Association of New York, said: "Moynihan Station will not only improve transit service at the busiest train station in the country, but this vital project will support hundreds of very much needed jobs in the construction industry. This long awaited project will also lay the groundwork for the economic development of the Farley Post office and the surrounding area and create a grand gateway to New York City."

Peg Breen, President The New York Landmarks Conservancy, said: "The long-awaited start of Moynihan Station is welcome news for New York and the whole northeast corridor. Now we need to ensure that the design of future train hall proves worth the wait."


Full press release from Gov. Paterson's office

Moynihan Station Development Corporation website


New renderings of the project:

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