• Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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    5 days ago

    Many of the design elements of the new hall pay deliberate homage to the original, befittingly grand, Penn Station, including especially the prominently exposed steel beams.

    There are no seats in the main hall, though there are smaller ticketed waiting areas to the side, as well as a substantial food court. The lack of a “big board” is deliberate, to discourage crowding in any particular area (there is instead a collection of smaller train status monitors spread throughout the hall).

    • Michael Weiss@infosec.exchange
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      5 days ago

      @mattblaze@federate.social the destruction of the original Penn Station was a tragedy of epic proportions. More significant even than the destruction of the Western Addition in San Francisco or the Seattle Hotel in Seattle. All of those, though, were the turning points for preservation of culturally important architecture in their respective cities.

    • Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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      5 days ago

      Moynihan Hall occupies part of what had been New York’s main post office building, a block west of the original Penn Station. It was situated over the tracks, with access to platforms, to facilitate Railway Post Office mail delivery, which was common into the 1970’s. After the post office moved its sorting operations elsewhere, it was relatively straightforward to repurpose it as an extension of the adjacent railroad station, which is why it only took the better part of 50 years.

      • Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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        5 days ago

        Adding the Moynihan Hall was a welcome improvement to Penn Station, but didn’t address the main problem, which is insufficient capacity for the number of trains that run through it. There aren’t enough tracks, the platforms are too narrow, and the tunnels entering and leaving the station have too limited capacity. These more fundamental constraints will be much harder to solve, because the underground area around the station is already heavily crowded.

        • Philipp@s.pebcak.de
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          5 days ago

          @mattblaze@federate.social Honest question here, not meant as asking you to change what post: Do you have a (informal of course) policy or pattern for when you repeat these images?

        • Farce Majeure@infosec.exchange
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          5 days ago

          @mattblaze@federate.social I’m a little surprised you managed to make the advertising neither completely white nor actually showing ads. I guess it must have been a relatively quick exposure at a fortuitous time in the ad cycle. Slow process indeed.