New York's Penn Station has reportedly been evacuated after a suspicious package was found near the tracks Thursday evening. Update 11 PM: Penn Station has reopened without incident.
Gone to the Dogs
[Mayor Mike Bloomberg shares a traditional New York hot dog with British Prime Minister David Cameron outside of Penn Station this afternoon. We'll leave the easy jokes on this one to you all. Image via Getty]
Seeking Transit Gloria Mundi
[Stranded travelers fiddle with their hand-held devices in Penn Station today when all trains out of the city were suspended for nearly three hours due to an electrical problem. Image via Getty]
NYC Travel Chaos Continues
Yesterday at JFK, a near-riot. Today at Penn Station, no trains to or from NJ.
This Is How Tracy Morgan Likes to Be Paddled
[30 Rock star Judah Friedlander gives a fetish demonstration outside of Penn Station in New York yesterday. Image via Getty]
Give it another decade and Penn Station may no longer compete with Port Authority for the title of Most Depressing Place in America. The state of New York submitted its plans for the area, centered around turning that nice post office across the street into "Moynihan Station," and the whole deal, including a new…
Is Al-Qaeda Reading Jane Jacobs?
After trying and failing to kill us with shoes, dirty bombs, and in-flight hair gels, it looks like the terrorists have finally decided to target us where it hurts most: that's right, our collective guilt over mid-20th century urban renewal! The Daily News reports that today's yucky non-Beaux-Arts Penn Station's a…
Penn Commuters Berated By Snotty Europeans
This morning outside Penn Station, some young fellows were distributing fake anti-promotional literature "protesting" the new high speed Europe rail system. (Paris to Frankfurt in under four hours!) First of all: Ooh, fake negative ad campaign. Second: Are commuters from Lynbrook and Bayshore really the target market…
