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May 17, 2013

Backers try to revive 20-year-old plan for Penn Station rehab

  • The multibillion-dollar effort is mired in perpetual bickering among movers and shakers in politics, finance, sports and business.
    • By VERENA DOBNIK
    Associated Press

    NEW YORK — The busiest passenger train station in the United States is a 1960s-era, utilitarian labyrinth in the basement of a basketball arena.

    Pennsylvania Station, a gateway to the nation's biggest city, was designed to accommodate about 200,000 riders a day. Now, it is packed with more than 600,000.


     
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