A plan circulated by ASTM North America in 2023 envisions Madison Square Garden won’t be moved but the the theater currently on the Eighth Avenue side can be removed to allow more light and a bigger entrance to the rail station with the sports arena still in place. ( Photo: ASTM North America) Now’s the Time to Decide the Fate of Madison Square Garden, Says Andy Byford New York should decide “once and for all” whether to move Madison Square Garden or leave it atop a rebuilt Penn Station,... News 29 Nov 2025 | 05:48
Standing before a giant screen at the Association for a Better New York breakfast recently, Amtrak executive Andy Byford outlines some bold ideas to run trains from the Long Island Rail Road into New Jersey and vice versa. But it will be no simple fix, as all railroads have traditionally ended their runs at Penn Station. ( Photo: Michael Oreskes) Byford Plan: Figure Out How to Get LIRR to Run to New Jersey No one can accuse Andy Byford of thinking small. Byford presented to a breakfast of New York power brokers his game plan for... News 24 Nov 2025 | 05:34
The Trump administration, which took over the Penn Station rebuild effort from the MTA earlier this year, outlined a very ambitious plan in find a master builder by May and break ground on a new Penn Station by the end of 2027. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Feds Seek Master Developer for Penn Station, Hope to Break Ground in ’27 The Trump administration announced that it was pressing forward on a brisk timeline with rebuilding Penn Station and improving... News 01 Nov 2025 | 12:52
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy (at mic) says the Trump administration wants to get shovels in the ground on the Penn Station rebuilding effort by the end of 2027, before Donald Trump leaves office. He is flanked by Deputy Transportation Secretary Steven Bradbury (left) and Andy Byford, the Amtrak executive who was appointed to oversee the rebuild. ( Photo: Michael Oreskes) Penn Station: Full Steam Ahead but Any Plan to Bulldoze Block to the South on Hold–for Now The physical expansion of Penn Station, which could require the destruction of the block immediately to the south, is “absolutely... News 29 Aug 2025 | 08:57
Andy Byford speaks to a gathering of the Empire Station Coalition on his plans for the “transformation” of Penn Station. He is holding a copy of Lost New York, by Nathan Silver. The cover is a photo of the old Penn Station before it was demolished. ( Photo: Michael Oreskes) ‘Train Daddy’ Byford: ‘Hard Part Starts Now’ in Penn Station Rebuild Andy Byford has been to church, specifically St. John the Baptist, just south of Penn Station, the French Gothic work of... News 20 Jul 2025 | 08:14
Andy Byford on Friday, March 9, 2018, when he was the NYC Transit president. Two years ago he suggested transit expansion could be achieved by running trains through Penn Station rather than treating it as a terminus. ( Photo: MTA) Where Have You Gone, Andy Byford? Penn Station Turns Its Lonely Eyes to You It is coming on two years since Andy Byford, the much-loved “Train Daddy” of New York City Transit, touted the “golden opportunity”... News 11 May 2025 | 05:48
At the opening of the accessible Avenue H Q station in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, on July 15. Photo: Darya Foroohar Invisible Riders: Subways and Accessibility Most New Yorkers have a love-hate relationship with the MTA, but while the iconic transit authority might be occasionally... News 17 Jul 2021 | 11:31
New York City Transit Chief Customer Officer Sarah Meyer (left), interim President Sarah Feinberg (second from left) and MTA NYCT staff prepared on Sunday, June 7 for the the subway’s safe return reopening on Monday, June 8. ( Photo: MTA New York City Transit / Patrick Cashin) Scent and the Subway Sarah Meyer earned a unique place this week in the annals of the New York City subways. Never before has a transit official... News 12 Jun 2020 | 02:11
Governor Cuomo tours L Train tunnel and shows improvements made ahead of schedule and on budget on September 29, 2019. ( Photo: Darren McGee / Office of Governor Cuomo) Who Runs the Transit System? Once upon a time in the Great City, Hugh L. Carey, one of New York’s best modern governors, and certainly its most underrated,... News 31 Jan 2020 | 01:46
