New York's nightmarish Penn Station is getting a much-needed makeover

Andrew Cuomo Administration/Flickr New York City's Penn Station is a transit nightmare. It's dismally gray, confusing to navigate, and frequently smells like a mix of Auntie Anne's pretzels and body odor. Traveling through Penn is a bit of a necessary evil that commuters just deal with. It's an incredibly busy transportation hub, where roughly 650,000 people and 1,200 trains pass through each day. The train station will now get a much-needed makeover in a plan led by New York Governor Andr...