New York Penn Station: Difference between revisions

[[File:Railway map around New York City MkII.svg|thumb|350px|A diagram of intercity and commuter rail services around New York City, showing Penn Station and [[Grand Central Terminal]]]]

The station is served by 1,300 arrivals and departures per day, twice as many as there were during the 1970s.<ref name="awful">{{Cite news |last=Leonard |first=Devin |date=January 10, 2018 |title=The Most Awful Transit Center in America Could Get Unimaginably Worse |work=Bloomberg Business Week |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-10/the-most-awful-transit-center-in-america-could-get-unimaginably-worse |access-date=January 10, 2018}}</ref> There are more than 600,000 subway, commuter rail and Amtrak passengers who use the station on an average weekday,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Randolph |first=Eleanor |date=March 28, 2013 |title=Transplanting Madison Square Garden |url=http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/transplanting-madison-square-garden/ |access-date=January 8, 2016 |website=Taking Note}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sciarrino |first=Robert |date=December 26, 2013 |title=How to squeeze 1,200 trains a day into America's busiest transit hub |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/11/how_to_squeeze_1200_trains_a_day_into_americas_busiest_transit_hub.html |access-date=January 8, 2016 |website=The Star-Ledger |quote=...a transit hub that handles 650,000 people a day&nbsp;— twice as busy as America's most-used airport in Atlanta and busier than Newark, LaGuardia and JFK airports combined.}}</ref> or up to 1,000 every ninety seconds.<ref name="100th" /><ref name="encnyc" />{{rp|498, 891}} It is the busiest passenger transportation facility in the United States<ref>Empire State Development. [http://www.esd.ny.gov/Subsidiaries_Projects/MSDC/MSDCAboutUs.html "About Moynihan Station."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127200922/http://www.esd.ny.gov/Subsidiaries_Projects/MSDC/MSDCAboutUs.html |date=January 27, 2016 }}. Retrieved March 7, 2011.</ref> and in North America.<ref name="encnyc">{{cite enc-nyc}}</ref>{{rp|890–891}}

 

=== Intercity rail ===