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Manhattan: Dan Biederman’s column misses the mark on what has been wrong and missing at Penn Station (“Keep up momentum to fix Penn Station and its environs,” April 9). What is wrong is that we are still living with the decision made in the late 1950s to raze the original Penn Station and its triumphant public spaces and to later replace them with a subterranean transit hub in the basement of Madison Square Garden and 2 Penn Plaza.

February 19, 2021 "Penn Station's Half Century" part of the new Moynihan Train Hall in Penn Station. Photography courtesy of Public Art Fund. As of January 2021, Moynihan Train Hall, located in New York City's Penn Station, is complete and ready to accommodate New Yorkers. This ambitious project comes with a revival of classic architecture alongside a helping of modern art, which General Glass International, GGI, brought to life with its Alice direct-to-glass printing process. Bringing Art to Moynihan Train Hall Detail of artwork, "Penn Station's Half Century." Photo courtesy of Andrew M...

It’s a problem that Waterfront Station is privately owned. Why it should belong to us. Michael Alexander is the retired founding director of SFU City Conversations, and a member of the Downtown Waterfront Working Group. SHARES Vancouver’s historic Waterfront Station, built in 1914, serves as a lovely public entry and meeting hall. Will it be stuck with the 'Ice Pick’? Photo by Michael Alexander. This month, New York City got an expensive lesson about why public transportation facilities should be publicly owned. It’s a wake-up for we who live in British Co...

Production still from the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Vancouver," 2016. © Art21, Inc. 2016. At the onset of the new year, one of New York City’s most maligned public transportation hubs—Penn Station—got a major upgrade. Completed at the end of 2020, the new Moynihan Train Hall has opened with an array of site-specific art commissions that honor the building’s past, and are helping to shape its future. Alongside works by Kehinde Wiley and Elmgren & Dragset, the Vancouver artist Stan Douglas created photographic panels that touch on little-known historical fa...

NorthJersey.com New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo did not hold back in his grandiose unveiling of his vision for a $306 billion statewide infrastructure plan during his State of the State address Thursday, invoking Shakespeare, Mark Twain and former state Govs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and DeWitt Clinton of New Deal and Erie Canal fame, respectively. But he did hold back details, opting instead to broadly reiterate in his fourth State of the State speech this week that New York will climb out of this pandemic and its economic fallout by "building bigger and better and laying the foundation for ou...