Feds vow to start Penn Station rebuild on ‘Trump time’ with shovels in ground by 2027

Crowds of people move through Penn Station in New York City.  (Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

By Evan Simko-Bednarski | New York Daily News

August 27, 2025

Federal Department of Transportation officials say they’ll manage to accomplish in two years what has stalled out in fits and starts since the 1990s: remake Penn Station.

DOT officials are expected to announce that shovels will be in the ground to start rebuilding the Midtown transit hub by the end of 2027 — a schedule set to be formally presented at the station amid a whistle-stop tour Wednesday for Amtrak’s new high-speed Acela trains.

“I know there’s been a lot of talk about it for decades — a lot of different plans,” Deputy Secretary of Transportation Steven Bradbury told the Daily News Tuesday. “But we’re really committed, with the backing of the president and the full attention of [Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy], to prioritize this project.”