Penn Station overhaul foregrounds public seating as infrastructure
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Amtrak’s Penn Station reconstruction includes long wood benches and broad public seating to improve pedestrian flow for the roughly 600,000 daily riders, with some seating reserved for ticketed passengers; the design nods to the station’s Beaux-Arts roots, but funding and governance—especially Amtrak/MTA partnership—remain unsettled.
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