Miranda Devine: NYC has once-in-a-lifetime chance to create a new Penn Station maybe with Trumps help

Thanks to having a hometown builder-in-chief in the White House, New York has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create an iconic landmark in the dingiest part of Midtown that would rival Rockefeller Center, Central Park or the Empire State Building.At the same time, the squalid underground rathole we call Penn Station would become an uplifting experience for the hundreds of thousands of downtrodden commuters who feel disrespected every day when they pass through.But the long-promised Penn Station redevelopment still may end up as a mediocre compromise because of the big stumbling block of Madison Square Garden, which sits right on top of everything, like King Kong dressed as a giant trash can.James Dolan, who owns the Garden, did not respond to inquiries Friday, but previously he has been adamant that his prize building is staying where it is. “I’m not gonna move Madison Square Garden, he said in 2023.“It’s in a good place right now.”Of at least three plans submitted to the federal Transportation Department’s beauty contest for the redevelopment, only one — backed by the Grand Penn Alliance — involves moving Madison Square Garden to a vacant block across the road to make way for a soaring classical architectural masterpiece even better than the beautiful landmark that was demolished in 1964 — and its proponents say it won’t take any longer to build.After news broke last month that Trump was open to the idea of replacing Madison Square Garden with a state-of-the-art new arena across the road, he received an Oval Office visit from two high-powered old friends from New York who had other ideas.Dolan and property developer Steven Roth, who owns most of the land surrounding Penn Station, including the old Pennsylvania Hotel site where the proposed new Garden would be built, did not respond to questions Friday about what was discussed.But the president told me on the phone over the weekend that he doesn’t want to move Madison Square Garden, which...