Matt Blaze on Nostr: Many of the design elements of the new hall pay deliberate homage to the original, ...

Many of the design elements of the new hall pay deliberate homage to the original, very grand, Penn Station, including especially the prominently exposed steel beams.

There are no seats in the main hall, though there are smaller ticketed waiting areas to the side, as a well as a food court to the west. The lack of a "big board" is deliberate, to discourage crowding in any particular area (there is instead a collection of smaller train status monitors spread throughout the hall).