Moynihan Station

Partners: Skanska
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)

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Accurise Consulting's managing partner John Mouzakitis provided scheduling services for Moynihan Train Hall, a transformation of the historic James A. Farley Post Office Building into one of New York City's most significant new civic transit spaces in a generation. His scope included creating the baseline schedule that formed a key part of the project's contract documents, performing the monthly schedule updates, and conducting numerous acceleration studies.

Moynihan Train Hall serves passengers traveling on Amtrak, the Long Island Rail Road, NJ Transit, and the New York City Subway. The new hall expanded total concourse floor space in the Pennsylvania Station–Farley Complex by more than fifty percent, dramatically improving circulation and easing the long-standing congestion in the original Penn Station, which serves roughly 650,000 daily riders.

The $1.6 billion project, led by Empire State Development through a public-private partnership with Vornado Realty Trust, Related Companies, Amtrak, the MTA, the Long Island Rail Road, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was delivered through a design-build approach to streamline construction and accelerate completion. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the new train hall around the Farley Building's preserved early-twentieth-century steel trusses, capped by a 92-foot-high glass skylight that floods the space with daylight.

The result is a transit hub on the scale and ambition of New York's original Beaux-Arts railway stations — a project first envisioned in the early 1990s by the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, for whom the hall is named.