New York City’s seemingly Quixotic quest to build a major new train station in midtown Manhattan has finally become a reality, and three developers are competing for the right to design it. “The design proposals all incorporate what has playfully become known as the potato chip – a shapely glass and steel canopy that will encompass the new station’s entry lobby. That canopy, designed by David M. Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, would envelop a series of concourses that slip under the post office building, letting light flow onto the train platforms below ground.” The new station would replace New York’s dilapidated and congested Penn Station.