Plywood, Pascack Valley, and Penn Station
Flooding has been, and probably will continue to be, a major problem for New York's century-old subway system. A solution designed to cover sidewalk gratings has been developed. Evidently, the city's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) seems to believe that the "latest and best technology," at least for Queens, is in the form of plywood and plastic.
Meanwhile, commuter railroad Metro-North, a division of the MTA, has again contracted out to New Jersey Transit the operation of its Port Jervis and Pascack Valley Lines, which have been run by the Garden State's rail service for years. Though the vast majority of Metro-North commuters enter the city via the Harlem, Hudson, and New Haven Lines to Grand Central, riders on the aforementioned two must travel through New Jersey before reaching Manhattan at Penn Station. The contract has a cost of around $20 million a year and will service roughly 3,000 commuters.
Finally, mega-developer Steven Roth, who owns much of the land surrounding Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, which sits on top, is proposing a $7 billion new plan to rebuild the West Side of the city. He wants to not only build the proposed Moynihan Station on the west side of 8th Avenue, but he'd also like to expand the current Penn Station (on the east side). To do so, he'll build a new Madison Square Garden on the 9th Avenue side of the Farley Post Office, directly next to Moynihan Station, and build five new towers on the side of the current arena. It's a big, ambitious plan that will be good for the city.
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