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New York gets world’s most expensive train station at 9/11 site
Hindustan Times ^ | AFP

Posted on 03/04/2016 3:06:24 PM PST by Citizen Zed

Edited on 03/04/2016 3:37:31 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

The world

(Excerpt) Read more at hindustantimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Local News; Travel
KEYWORDS: nyc; santiagocalatrava; transithub; worldtradecenter

1 posted on 03/04/2016 3:06:24 PM PST by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed
a gift of love

@ $3.8 billion ...

2 posted on 03/04/2016 3:07:55 PM PST by IronJack
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To: Citizen Zed

Calandra a buildings are beautiful but they seem to be very similar. Milwaukee Museum of Art vs this Station. I’m not an expert.


3 posted on 03/04/2016 3:12:33 PM PST by stocksthatgoup ("You gotta leave it to the voters to decide what they want. I don't take any strategy from anybody")
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To: NoCmpromiz

Ping.....


4 posted on 03/04/2016 3:12:38 PM PST by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) - Nah. Put the Cheese down and step away.!)
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To: Citizen Zed

Calatrava is a world class con-man. This is just the latest example of the taxpayers getting taken to the cleaners by him.


5 posted on 03/04/2016 3:15:21 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Citizen Zed

A government agency twice removed form the voters. They don’t give a fig. Had business once with the guy that ran PANYNJ. World Trade Center - 100th floor or something like that. Helicopters were flying BELOW where I was. Palatial chambers. Government is a scam. A total scam. Repeat - a total scam.


6 posted on 03/04/2016 3:16:16 PM PST by major-pelham
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To: IronJack

Personally, I don’t care what it cost, nor how much my taxes may have helped to pay for it. The structure is breathtakingly beautiful, and noble in concept. Bravo.


7 posted on 03/04/2016 3:16:50 PM PST by earglasses (I was blind, and now I hear...)
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To: Citizen Zed

All of NY Penn Station was built in 1910 by a private company (the Pennsylvania Railroad) at a cost of $114 million in 1910, which is about $3 billion in 2016 dollars; including six tunnels (four under the East River and two under the Hudson River) and 21 tracks.

And now Amtrak wants to “expand” that station, plus add two more tunnels under the Hudson River, at first estimated to cost well over $11 billion but now has ballooned to an estimated $24 billion.


8 posted on 03/04/2016 3:18:05 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Citizen Zed

I looks like the rib cage of a great beast.


9 posted on 03/04/2016 3:21:34 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (So our choice will be either Trump or Clinton? I need a drink.)
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To: earglasses
Thanks for stating that you're okay with the government stealing your (and everyone else's) money to create what looks like the feeding combs of tubeworms, with little to no functionality.


10 posted on 03/04/2016 3:21:49 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Citizen Zed

Should be toasty warm for the homeless to bed down for the night.

Also nice and cool in the summer.

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11 posted on 03/04/2016 3:22:11 PM PST by Mears
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To: Olog-hai

Question? Do we not have any architects in the US that could design this money pit? Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!


12 posted on 03/04/2016 3:22:45 PM PST by Norske
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To: Citizen Zed

It’s ugly.


13 posted on 03/04/2016 3:24:05 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Citizen Zed

World’s most expensive train station? That is what you call a dubious honor. A type of distinction not heavily sought after. I would expect other countries to indulge in such obvious overspending. Countries like Saudi Arabia, China, cities like Dubai.


14 posted on 03/04/2016 3:24:32 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Norske
We used to. Sadly, such firms as McKim, Mead and White are long gone; they were the designers of the original Penn Station building in Manhattan, demolished in 1963.


15 posted on 03/04/2016 3:29:58 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Citizen Zed

It’s ugly and garish. A momument to government waste for its own sake.


16 posted on 03/04/2016 3:35:52 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: All
Anyone interested in architecture may find this interesting.

This video shows what ancient Rome actually looked like
17 posted on 03/04/2016 3:46:08 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Olog-hai

And now there’s a movement to rebuild it.


18 posted on 03/04/2016 7:02:43 PM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: M1903A1; moose07
there’s a movement to rebuild it.

Well... Not quite. Although there are many who would like the present eyesore physically removed. ;-)

What is being promoted is the conversion of the Farley Post Office building (designed by the same architects as and sited across 8th Avenue from the original Penn Station - now containing the thing that now carries that name stuffed under Madison Square Garden) or most of it into the "New Penn Station" which has been named the Moynihan Station after the senator.

Apparently the initial phase of the plan is to relocate Amtrak platforms, access and ticketing/waiting rooms to this 'new' section. Future plans indicate a new trainshed and who knows what else. That complete repository of the entire knowledge of the universe that calls itself Wikipedia has the following article that is about as accurate as stuff on Wikipedia gets..

Pennsylvania Station (New York City)

Whatever and however they do it, it is guaranteed to cost way more than it cost The Standard Railroad of the World to build the original..

19 posted on 03/04/2016 8:16:39 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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