What If Moynihan Station Doesn't Happen?

As optimism about the Moynihan Station project morphs into uncertainty, Governor Spitzer, the man at the helm of the endeavor, faces a crucial test in coming weeks, as he turns with an open hat to City Hall and Washington for nearly $1 billion in funding.

The grand plan, which would allow for $14 billion Read More

Moynihan Station Makes Its Big Push With Sangria Kicker

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, late a Senator from New York, can still pack them in. He’s been gone for two years now, but on May 2 dozens of New Yorkers-including the woman who holds his old Senate seat-gathered in the James A. Farley Post Office building to pay homage to his last dream.

Were he still Read More

All Not Aboard! Amtrak Pulling Brake on Penn

Senator Hilary Clinton had just spent several hours on Friday, Sept. 17, touring an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York about the life and times of her predecessor, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, when she and a small group of architects and urban planners took an impromptu walk upstairs to Read More

Is Everybody Aboard For Penn Station?

Over an Irish coffee at O’Neill’s pub on Third Avenue, where she and proprietor Ciaran Staunton exchange laments over the Mayor’s smoking ban, Maura Moynihan digs into a bag of memories and pulls out a few of her favorite quotes. Such as:

“Oh, for the days when Boss Croker built the I.R.T. as a Read More