2. Club Acela

Although a new, high-end Club Acela is being built for Moynihan Station, the club inside Penn Station is also getting a needed upgrade. The current design was intended to emulate the dark private clubs of the 1990s, but is feeling out of date. Soon, the club will be expanded, taking over the station superintendent’s office adjacent to the ticket windows, and extending out diagonally into the station for better visibility and more space. There will be more seating, new chairs and furniture, new bathrooms, a higher ceiling, an improved business center, and an improved snack bar (with better snacks!) will be installed. There will also be high top counters for laptop use.

The curtained office is the station superintendent’s office that will be repurposed into the expanded Club Acela

Construction will begin first on the bathrooms, which will take the longest though the club will remain open during the first phase of work. Then work on the interior will begin, with Club Acela to be closed for two weeks. Even when Moynihan Station opens, the original Club Acela will still be in operation and will be the main club for night trains since Moynihan will close overnight.