Walking tour: New Moynihan Train Hall @ NYC’s Penn Station

Moynihan Train Hall is an expansion of New York City's Pennsylvania Station into the adjacent James A. Farley Building, the city's former main post office building. Located between Eighth Avenue, Ninth Avenue, 31st Street, and 33rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, the annex provides new access to most of Penn Station's platforms for Long Island Rail Road and Amtrak passengers, serving 17 of the station's 21 tracks.The video is a comprehensive tour of Moynihan Train hall.

Let there be light, and art, in the Moynihan Train Hall

Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley’s backlit, hand-painted, stained-glass triptych called “Go," on display inside the Moynihan Train Hall in New York, Dec. 27, 2020. “Go” depicts sneaker-clad break dancers who appear to float across a blue sky. (Andrew Moore/The New York Times)

Stan Douglas

Giant photographic panels by Douglas, a Canadian whose work reenacts historical moments of tension that connect local histories to broader social movements, serve as the backdrop along a more than 80-foot wall of a waiting area for ticketed passengers. The series, “Penn Station’s Half Century,” is an homage to the original Penn Station, with Douglas drawing on archival research to recreate nine small but noteworthy moments that occurred there.

Elmgreen & Dragset

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, Berlin-based artists whose work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design, created “The Hive,” a set of up to 9-foot-tall models of skyscrapers that hang upside down like stalactites from the ceiling at the 31st Street entrance.

The polished, white buildings, some replicas and some purely fictional, look futuristic with their perfect edges and tiny lights. A mirrored base allows commuters to feel projected into the cityscape and creates a sort of mirage of an imaginary city, the artists explained.

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