Thread by @AirlineFlyer

Happy 2021 and good morning from New York's Penn Station! I've spent countless hours of my life waiting for trains in this underground dump.

That ends today. Sort of. Let's go take a look at the new Moynahan Train Hall, officially opened as of today 🎉

First off is the new @LIRR concourse entrance on 7th Ave. It's a grand entrance with a great piece of artwork - a map!

Moynihan Train Hall has several new entrances along 8th Avenue. These entrances opened a little while ago for access to @LIRR's West End Cooridor but now allow full access to the train hall.

The Moynihan Train Hall, in all its finally open glory

This kiosk in the new Moynihan Train Hall tries to answer the age old tourist question of "how do I get to my airport?"

It does it very poorly. This needs work.

Here's the regular @Amtrak waiting room for ticketed passengers only. Very nice space.

.@Amtrak had opened a new Metropolitan Lounge for Acela First Class and select long distance passengers.
The best compliment I've heard is "it looks like an airline lounge." In this case, it's a big compliment. #PaxEx

So Moynihan Train Hall isn't actually that useful for @LIRR passengers. You can't access tracks 17-21 from it, instead you have to exit and head back to the West End Cooridor.
This really is almost exclusively Amtrak access with a sprinkle of LIRR.

And now my tour of the new Penn Station Moynihan Train Hall ends with a walk back through regular Penn Station. Take it all in!

This waiting room is also open to ticketed @LIRR passengers, but the signage really doesn't make that clear

https://twitter.com/airlineflyer/status/1345059776678551553

There are SO many different forms of digital schedule signage throughout Penn Station now. All sorts of shapes and sizes. There's really a lack of uniformity, but that's nothing new to Penn Station.

In summary, New York Pennsylvania Station now consists of:

The old LIRR concourses
The NJ Transit concourse
The West End Corridor
The old Amtrak concourse
The new Amtrak Moynihan Train Hall
The 1/2/3 subway station
The A/C/E subway station

It's still a maze-like, confusing mess