New York City Stations/ West Side line ?

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Strange as it may sound, the stations with the best options are located across the Hudson.  Newark Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal both connect with PATH, providing convenient connecting service to either Midtown or Lower Manhattan.

[Moon]

First of all, all Amtrak trains use Penn Station in New York City, so you don't have a choice. Whether Penn Station or Grand Central Terminal is better located for a particular traveler, just depends on where that traveler's final destination is. Both stations connect to the subway system. Penn Station also connects to the LIRR and NJ Transit. Only Metro-North serves Grand Central Terminal. You can get from one station to the other by subway.

Regarding Penn Station vs. the Farley Post Office Building, both are over the station platforms, so the trains themselves are not affected by the use of the Farley Post Office Building as passenger concourse. There will just be additional escalators to the platforms. Right now, I believe the plan is for New Jersey Transit to have its concourse and ticket offices in the Farley Post Office portion of the station. Amtrak will stay where it is.

Merritt

[Modelcar]

PBenham:

Thanks for update.....That's too bad.  Thought that sounded like it had been resurrected back a couple months or so ago....Don't remember where I might have heard that.

 

[PBenham]

....Is there any info to report on proposed "station" change from the "old Pennsylvaina" unit over to the Post Office building....?

Dead for now. Politics. Need I say more?

[Modelcar]

....Is there any info to report on proposed "station" change from the "old Pennsylvaina" unit over to the Post Office building....?

[jclass]

I think it depends on where in the city you want to get to.

[nanaimo73]

Not since 1991. I was just wondering which station was better situated for business travelers and tourists.

[Modelcar]

....Does Amtrak still enter Grand Central....?

[conrailman]

Penn Station in New York City.

[nanaimo73]

Which Station in New York City is better situated for Amtrak passengers from upstate New York traveling to the city, and not connecting to the Northeast corridor ?