The huge new Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station: a journey in vintage glamour.

Photo credits: Delphine Coppuyns-Manet

The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall officially opened on January 1st, 2021, after more than two decades of planning and construction. The hall is a dazzling addition to New York’s Penn Station, located between 7th and 8th Avenues on West 31st Street.

With sweeping ceilings, marble floors, soaring skylights and old school touches like arched windows, the space positively reeks of glamour.

The project was originally proposed in the late 1990’s by U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan to relieve the station’s overcrowding. The hall is 255,000 square feet, much needed space for daily passengers that average 600,000 in recent years.

A 92-foot-high shimmering all-glass ceiling has 500 individual pieces. The building’s original metal trusses support the glass ceiling.

“We’ve designed a place that evokes the majesty of the original 1910 Penn Station,” says Colin Koop, design partner at Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill, the architecture firm behind the new hall.

“We are breathing new life into New York, and recreating an experience no one has had here in decades."

Surrounded by such majesty and splendor, travelers can’t help but be moved.
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