Two of the city's biggest landmarks appear to be at odds over expansion plans for Penn Station. The MTA and Madison Square Garden may not be seeing eye to eye over how to coexist. DaveCarlinTV reports.
Penn Station's ongoing transformation just got tense, because when the city asked the MTA to weigh in on how it is coexisting with Madison Square Garden, the response came in the form of a bombshell report, with the MTA using the words"not compatible" to describe the Garden and Penn.
"We need Madison Square Garden to cooperate and become compatible, make the arena compatible, with the station," said Jaime Torres-Springer, president of MTA Construction and Development. Torres-Springer showed CBS2 around a Penn Station that, if the Garden plays ball, will be wider and higher. "We've got Madison Square Garden sitting on top of Penn Station. Some of the places that it is using, like for its loading dock, like this taxiway that has been closed since 9/11, Eighth Avenue entrances, some of the places where their heating and cooling," Torres-Springer said.
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