Michael Moynihan: He pushed for train station so people could enter New York ‘like gods’

US politician and academic Daniel Patrick Moynihan gave a lifetime’s service to the US generally, and New York specifically, in a variety of guises

The Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station in New York City is named after Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Picture: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Good for the ego: arriving into New York City at a train station which bears your name.

The Moynihan Train Hall does not commemorate yours truly but Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who gave a lifetime’s service to the US generally, and New York specifically, in a variety of guises.