It was an idea first proposed in the 1990’s that took nearly three decades to reach fruition, despite support from governors, senators and even presidents. It’s the rebirth of a massive Beaux Arts post office building by McKim, Meade and White, once considered the nation’s foremost architecture firm, into New York’s next great train station. It’s a shot at redemption after the city demolished a landmark here—the original light filled, circa-1910 Pennsylvania Station—and replaced it with a subterranean version that to say lacks grandeur is being kind…

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