They whistled at it, paraded in it, posed against it, and, for a few moments, forgot themselves. They came to instill civic pride in their kids and remind themselves of all that New York could be. And they left with the satisfaction that comes when your city does something monumental, and does it right.
With its soaring expanses of glass and light, the new Moynihan Train Hall, which rises behind the colonnades of the Beaux-Arts James A. Farley Building across from Penn Station, has achieved the near impossible: It has left New Yorkers, 10 months into a harrowing pandemic, feeling transported and inspired.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/arts/design/moynihan-train-hall.html
My next train trip to New York City won’t be until this summer, hopefully, to see the Orioles play the Yankees.
But my immediate reaction while reading this on Saturday was some day Baltimoreans will say this about Pimlico.
As fate would have it, I had two conversations today about this redevelopment.
On his last day in office, Mayor Jack Young signed the Community Compact to provide for input from the track’s neighbors on many of the decisions that will be made.
I discussed the logistics for the first meeting of this group with a neighborhood leader..
My 41st District colleague, Dalya Attar, and I discussed the non-racing uses on 40-50 acres of the site,, which will be developed by the Baltimore Development Corporation. We learned of the prep work BDC needs to do
As the track announcer says, “The horses are at the starting gate.”
