Moynihan Train Hall serves as a new, grand entrance to New York. It transforms the historic Farley Building, a former mail sorting facility and current Post Office that spans the superblock immediately across from the existing Penn Station, creating a dramatically expanded station complex.
The Train Hall serves as Amtrak’s new flagship hub and provides expanded services and amenities for the Long Island Rail Road. The facility features a new high-quality food hall and retail stores, plus commercial offices on the upper levels.
The scope reflects the complexity of the station as this train hall provides direct access to most, but not all century-old platforms that extend under the existing Penn Station (all Amtrak and LIRR trains are served, but NJ Transit’s shorter platforms are not reachable).
The primary goal of the train hall and its wayfinding was to reduce congestion and enhance the experience of the nation’s busiest transportation complex. From the train hall, there is a direct underground connection to the existing Penn Station, two NYC Subway stations, and the New Jersey Transit.
Access to Madison Square Garden is on the ground level across the street to the west end of the block, a hallway provides a convenient connection to the new developments on the far west side of Manhattan, Hudson Yards. These various adjacent destinations, combined with all the new transit, retail and commercial destinations, made providing streamlined wayfinding challenging.
