NEWS: New Plans to relocate Madison Square Garden to Penn Station
As reported in the Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/nyregion/27garden.html
the owners of Madison Sqaure Garden have started a full court press to incorporate the Garden into the new Moynihan Station. They have shown the plans to a number of groups, but not to the public.
From the Times: “Under the Garden proposal, the arena would take up about 60 percent of the landmark post office building and rise well above it. The owners of the arena also want a major presence on Eighth Avenue, at the top of the grand staircase leading to 20 Corinthian columns, each 53 feet tall, at the entrance. Although a planned grand concourse would remain, the intermodal hall would be moved across Eighth Avenue.
The developers noted that 80 percent of the transit activity would still take place in the current Penn Station, which needs to be refurbished. But critics contend that the Garden is threatening to swallow the train station for a second time.
“What started out as a great public project has turned into a real estate deal,” Frederic S. Papert, a member of the Municipal Art Society, said yesterday.”