ARCHITECTURE’S BEST POLITICAL FRIEND?

In his 24 years in Congress, Patrick Moynihan helped allocate billions of dollars to important building projects. He helped create the Pennsylvania Avenue Redevelopment Corporation, save Walt Whitman’s Long Island birthplace, and restore New York City’s Grand Central Station. But his crowning project is getting underway just as he is retiring from the US Senate – the conversion of New York’s Central Post Office building to the new Pennsylvania Station. – Architecture Magazine