What Will it Take to Transform Penn Station?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 28, 2016

Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times architecture critic, and Vishaan Chakrabarti, founder of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism and a professor at Columbia University, discusses Chakrabarti's plan to revamp Penn Station, following Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s recent announcement in which he detailed a $1.6 billion vision for the station. In “Penn Station Reborn,” Kimmelman and Chakrabarti look at what it will take to truly transform Penn Station. 

 

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