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Penn Station Redevelopment Public Comment Period Begins October 31, 2025
Penn Station $7 Billion Renovation Project Planned to Begin in 2027
October 22, 2025 / NYC Real Estate & Business / NYC Transit. Bronx Transit News & Infrastructure NYC / Brooklyn Transit News & Infrastructure NYC / Queens Transit News & Infrastructure NYC / Manhattan Transit News & Infrastructure NYC / Staten Island Transit News & Infrastructure NYC / NYC Transit News & Infrastructure NYC / NYC News NYC / Gotham Buzz NYC.
In March 2025, Stephen Gardner, stepped down as Amtrak CEO, in what seems like a Trump Administration personnel change. In May 2025, Andy Byford, a British National, was appointed to a Special Advisory role on Amtrak. Sometime this Spring [2025], the Trump Administration removed the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority [MTA] from its position as the lead agency on the Penn Station renovation project and put Amtrak in charge.
Byford is not allowed to become the CEO of Amtrak, as law requires that the CEO of Amtrak be an American. Byford was President of tne NYC Transit Authority from 2018 to 2020, which is the sum total of his experience in a managment role here. But he does have prior management experience in transit in Toronto and London, and in advisory roles here in the U.S., since about 2014. Construction is expected to begin some time in 2027.
The photo above or at right was taken earlier this year at Penn Station in West Midtown Manhattan. The Empire State Building can be seen through the window in the background.
Here's a link to the original plan, when it was still being managed by the NY MTA and the second link takes you to the Amtrak site media area, where I would expect them to post the public comment solicitation - BUT THIS IS UNCONFIMRED.
Old Penn Station Renovation Plan
https://www.governor.ny.gov/programs/new-penn-station
Amtrak Website - Media Center where we expect them to post the solicitation of public comments
https://media.amtrak.com
Trump Says $16 Billion NJ / NYS Hudson River Tunnel Project Terminated, but it is Not
Trump Cannot Make that Decision Unilaterally, so the Tunnel Project Continues
October 15, 2025 / Real Estate & Business. Bronx Transit News & Infrastructure NYC / Brooklyn Transit News & Infrastructure NYC / Queens Transit News & Infrastructure NYC / Manhattan Transit News & Infrastructure NYC / Staten Island Transit News & Infrastructure NYC / NYC Transit News & Infrastructure NYC / NYC News NYC / Gotham Buzz NYC.
Trump said the Gateway Tunnel Project is terminated, even though Trump doesn't have the authority to unilaterally terminate projects authorized by Congress. The Trump Transportation Department said there aren't any official plans to terminate the $16 billion project. And the companies working on the Gateway Tunnel Project continued to do so.
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/10/17/gateway-and-second-ave-subway-projects-still-alive-despite-trump-comments-ee-00611371
U.S. Constitutional Laws Surrounding the President's Ability to Halt Projects after Congressional Authorization - After you click the above link, type - unconstitutional withholding funds - in the search box, and then scroll down to January reports submitted by Senator Patty Murray of Washington. Murray's reports outline the laws / powers bestowed by the Constitution, to the legislative branch versus executive branch of government, surrounding the allocation and implementation of funding federally authorized projects.
https://www.appropriations.senate.gov
And yet the billionaire TV News seemed to disinform the American public by repeating and amplifying Trump's comments about halting the Gateway Tunnel Project, without an equal amount of context and corrections. Thus, TV News is once again leaving so many of those who rely on TV for their news, walking around with the false / manipulated perception that Trump cancelled the Gateway Tunnel Project, which he is not unilaterally authorized to do. Some believe that Trump is making these comments in an attempt to try to influence some of the New York / New Jersey elections, most notably to attack Mamdani for NYC Mayor, and Mikie Sherrill for NJ Governor.
Staten News - Weekly Updates
November 13, 2025 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / Staten Island Transit / Staten Island News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Staten Buzz NYC.
New Ferry Service Route Opens December 8th Connecting Staten Island to Brooklyn
Beginning December 8, 2025 the NYC Ferry will beging operating a number of new interborough routes in NYC Harbor and along the East River and Hudson River. The new routes to and from Staten Island include one that lands in Sunset Park and another that lands at Battery Park City. For details see 1) the NYEDC announcement and 2) the NYC Ferry website.
New NYC Ferry Service to Staten Island to and from Brooklyn
https://edc.nyc/press-release/nycedc-announces-ferry-route-changes-system-growth-future-vision
NYC Ferry Service Service New Routes December 2025
https://www.ferry.nyc
Brooklyn News - Weekly Updates
November 13, 2025 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / Brooklyn Transit / Brooklyn News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Brooklyn BLVD NYC.
New Ferry Service Route Opens December 8th Connecting Staten Island to Brooklyn
Beginning December 8, 2025 the NYC Ferry will beging operating a number of new interborough routes in NYC Harbor and along the East River and Hudson River. The new routes to and from Staten Island include one that lands in Sunset Park and another that lands at Battery Park City. For details see 1) the NYEDC announcement and 2) the NYC Ferry website.
New NYC Ferry Service to Staten Island to and from Brooklyn
https://edc.nyc/press-release/nycedc-announces-ferry-route-changes-system-growth-future-vision
NYC Ferry Service Service New Routes December 2025
https://www.ferry.nyc
Bronx News - Weekly Updates
November 13, 2025 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / Bronx Transit / Bronx News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Bronx Buzz NYC.
New NYC Ferry Service Between Bronx and Rockaways Queens Starts December 8th
This week the NYC Ferry Service announced a few new routes, amongst which is a route from Throgs Neck and Soundview in the Bronx, making multiple stops along the East River in Manhattan, one at Sunset Park in Brooklyn, before terminating in the Rockaways in Queens. The changes go into effect on December 8, 2025.
New NYC Ferry Service Between Bronx and Queens Rockaways
https://gothamist.com/news/new-nyc-ferry-routes-bring-direct-boat-ride-between-brooklyn-and-staten-island
