![]() ![]() Farley post office, thus increasing the size of this huge rail traffic hub by 50%.Ī considerable expansion (255,000 square feet, or 23,690 square meters more than in the past) offers more comfort and convenience to the 650,000 travelers who, before the pandemic, crossed the crowded halls of Penn Station every day. The station has been enlarged to include the old James A. The year 2021 began with the christening of the Moynihan Train Hall (named after Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan who supported the project 30 years ago). As of January 1, the historic subway and train station, probably the most important public transportation hub in the United States, has been rebaptised with a new name and a new expansion. At Seventh Avenue and 33rd Street is Penn Station. Or surfing on Google Maps where the usual icons - Macy’s and Cipriani, Gucci and Saks - are joined by CityMD, where you can get a swab for free.Īnd yet, walking down Seventh Avenue where even the maps of everyday life have been rewritten, something has stayed the same. You can see this wariness as you walk through the narrow streets of Greenwich Village, where instead of small coffee shops with paintings signed by the Rolling Stones, there are now private labs selling Covid tests as if they were doughnuts. It keeps working - because no one can stop New York City - but with wariness. Today’s city lives in suspended animation. The Manhattan of Covid-19 now hangs on immunologist Anthony Fauci’s every word, hoping to get the “green light” that can jumpstart life the city. Today’s Manhattan is something different. ![]() Taking Seventh Avenue south from Times Square has always been a gamble, a sort of slalom dodging people on crowded sidewalks, store doors that slide open to puff cold air in the summer and hot blasts in the winter, and navigating giant restaurant chains recalling the assembly lines of last century’s factories. ![]()
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