http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/nyregion/penn-station-new-york-andrew-cuomo.html 2016-09-27 19:03:45 Cuomo’s Vision for Revamped Penn Station: New Home for Amtrak and L.I.R.R. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo presented a plan that would create a train hall in the James A. Farley Building on the west side of Eighth Avenue by 2020, while renovating the passageways at Penn Station. === For nearly a quarter-century, governors and mayors in New York have been stymied in their attempts to fix Pennsylvania Station, one of the busiest transit halls in the Western Hemisphere and one of the most crowded and confusing. Gov. The Farley building would be a home for both Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, said his administration had selected a development team — the developers Related Companies, Vornado Realty and Skanska AB, the giant construction management firm — for the $1.6 billion plan. He announced the plan at a luncheon for the State officials say that all the necessary approvals are in place, as is the funding. The developers will pay $600 million for the rights to the Farley project. Empire State Development, a state agency, and Amtrak, which owns Penn Station, will soon solicit bids for overhauling the station. “This plan is smarter and better for people who will use the complex,” Mr. Cuomo said in an interview, “and it will actually happen.”