The report dismisses ideas that would provide an alternative to a yearslong proposal to expand Penn Station by tearing down a Midtown block.

A joint Amtrak, NJ Transit and MTA analysis released Wednesday indicates that the planned doubling of train capacity into Penn Station will likely require an expansion of the facility beyond its

The only way to increase train capacity at Penn Station is to expand the Midtown Manhattan transit hub, a new report concludes. This week Amtrak, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), and NJ Transit released "Doubling Trans-Hudson Train Capacity at New York Penn Station,

A set of wheels on the train came off the tracks just south of the station around 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Amtrak said.

A better commute in and out of Penn Station is a complicated thing. Officials are looking for improvements but projects are more than a decade down the line. Amtrak is studying an expansion of the station’s footprint and the Gateway Tunnel is being built under the Hudson River.