I’ve been catching up on last week’s paper, including this article about the how and why and what of valuable outdoor public space in cities, specifically talked about while wandering through New York.
“…and could yet redeem New York’s most ignominious failure to safeguard the public realm, Penn Station. Creative redesign (turn 33rd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues into a car-free, glassed-over pedestrian gateway to the station) and a little hardball politics (find another home for Madison Square Garden) might still turn the Farley Post Office into a dignified Amtrak terminal and bring some light and air into what is now a rat’s warren of a transit hub suffered by 550,000 commuters each day.”
A rat’s warren of a transit hub suffered by 550,000 commuters each day.
Take that in.
I will add that it gets a liiiiiittttle bit better/bearable if you know where the secret NJ Transit ticket machines are.
Shhhhhhh.
Now I’d like to read the same article about L.A!
