Andy Byford has been to church, specifically St John the Baptist, just south of Penn Station, the French Gothic work of famed ecclesiastical architect Napolean LeBrun. He has also visited the last above ground remnant of the late, lamented Penn Station, a McKim, Mead and White powerhouse on that same block, owned by his employer, Amtrak.
He has walked the entire superblock around Penn Station and descended into its caverns. He has met with James Dolan, whose Madison Square Garden sits atop the decapitated station like a dental implant, as well as with Steven Roth, whose Vornado Realty Trust owns much of the property around the station.
“My dance card is full of meetings,” said Byford, speaking for the first time in public since the Trump administration took over the reconstruction of Penn Station and put him in charge…