Pennsylvania Station

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Located at 33rd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues in Manhattan, Pennsylvania Station (like many other large busy transit points on Earth) conceals in its workings a worldgating facility. Penn's two worldgates are used mostly for on-Earth "rapid transit" by wizards working on the East Coast of North America: doing a personal worldgating into Penn and then letting the hard-wired gates handle the longer part of a transit is a time-honored energy-saving strategy.

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The future Penn Station

Transits through Penn, however, are likely to become more problematic over the next few years with the long-anticipated relocation of all Penn's rail services from the station's present cramped quarters beneath Madison Square Garden / the Felt Forum into the new station inside and beneath the beautiful old Beaux-Arts Farley Post Office building on 8th Avenue. Since the worldgates are tethered to the present track structure, the tracks' reorganization and relocation means that the gates too will have to be relocated. This work is mentioned briefly in OHMWS/TVTQ and also in WH, and the actual moving of the gates is described in the first chapter of TBM.