News & Reviews News Wire News photos: Ribbon-cutting provides first look inside Moynihan Train Hall

News photos: Ribbon-cutting provides first look inside Moynihan Train Hall

By Sammi DiVito | December 30, 2020

| Last updated on January 4, 2021


Facility will begin operation on New Year's Eve; full opening Jan. 1

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A skylight in a train hall
A skylight with an area roughly equal to that of Grand Central Terminal’s main hall is a signature feature of the new Moynihan Train Hall. (Office of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo)
Ribbon cutting ceremony
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other officials cut ribbons to celebrate completion of the Moynihan Train Hall.
Kevin P. (Coughlin/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other officials held a ribbon-cutting earlier today marking the completion of the Moynihan Train Hall, providing the first look inside the $1.6 billion facility across 8th Avenue from New York Penn Station that provides new waiting rooms and access to Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road trains.

One entrance to the facility is scheduled to open on New Year’s Eve, with the full opening planned for Friday [see “New York’s Moynihan Train Hall to open Jan. 1,” Trains News Wire, Dec. 28, 2020]. “As dark as 2020 has been, this new hall will bring the light, literally and figuratively, for everyone who visits this great city,” Cuomo said in a press release, which offers additional details about the new structure. A gallery of photos is available here; an Amtrak press release with more information on the opening of the Train Hall is available here.

Lobby of a train hall
The new facility’s spacious main concourse. (Office of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo)

 

Moynihan Train Hall
The historic Farley Post Office Building is home to the Moynihan Train Hall. (Office of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo)
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