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Natalie Migliore, WOR Street Reporter interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now it's sevent ten w o rs. Be on the
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  Speaker 1: street with Natalie Migliori.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Before we even came on the air, Larry and Natalie
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  Speaker 3: Megliori came up simultaneously with the idea, let's find out
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  Speaker 3: from the people whether they want to do a name
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  Speaker 3: change of Penn Station, as suggested by the Transit Transportation
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  Speaker 3: Secretary as Sean Duffy. ESA today it's time to change
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  Speaker 3: the name from Penn Station to another name. And naturally,
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  Speaker 3: I said, naming rights, make them pay, make them pay
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  Speaker 3: so we don't have to keep paying for amtrack. What
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  Speaker 3: did you come up with, Natalie, Well.
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  Speaker 4: You know, in my defense, it's tough to get people
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  Speaker 4: to get creative in the morning, so let's start out
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  Speaker 4: with that.
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  Speaker 1: But I think I tried. You're gonna understand that another day.
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  Speaker 1: I know, everybody turn it off. I'm just kidding. Keep listening,
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  Speaker 1: Keep listening.
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  Speaker 4: Republicans in the federal government are urging top us editors
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  Speaker 4: to change the name of New York Penn Station. It's
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  Speaker 4: the second time this idea has come up, really in
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  Speaker 4: the past few months. Last time there was talk about
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  Speaker 4: naming it after President Trump. If you guys remember this, time,
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  Speaker 4: they didn't suggest the name. So what would people name
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  Speaker 4: Penn Station if they could name it anything?
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  Speaker 1: Okaos, Yeah that's all I can get very busy.
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  Speaker 2: It's just busy.
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  Speaker 1: Today's a little quiet but busy ass place.
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  Speaker 3: I would call it the nick Sins.
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  Speaker 1: They won like maybe bumpsing Boulevard or something like that.
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  Speaker 5: Probably something that has travel in it. So people know
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  Speaker 5: that this is a train station, because when I came
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  Speaker 5: to New York, I didn't know that this was connected
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  Speaker 5: to more hand and they would go to train stations.
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  Speaker 1: They would rename Penn Station.
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  Speaker 2: They would call it rogers spell because like in the military,
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  Speaker 2: you would roger something. Since Penn Station is the center
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  Speaker 2: basically at transportation besides ports authority. Coming in New York,
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  Speaker 2: you would have to roger everything.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I just want everybody to know that Larry made
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  Speaker 4: the drinking motion with his hand, like is this guy drunk.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if he was on anything, but he
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  Speaker 4: was definitely the most created Yeah, but definitely.
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  Speaker 1: And I liked his glasses.
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  Speaker 4: He had these great mint blue glasses. Anyway, it doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 4: but he.
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  Speaker 1: Was the most creative. Okay, he was the most open
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  Speaker 1: minded with it. Put a lot of thought into it.
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  Speaker 1: Come on so anyway.
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  Speaker 4: It's all part of an eight million dollar redesigned project,
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  Speaker 4: much of which has focused on expanding train capacity for
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  Speaker 4: the busiest transportation hub in the Western Hemisphere. The station
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  Speaker 4: has been revamped visually with glistening lights and a lot
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  Speaker 4: of eateries. It's really something to behold when you walk
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  Speaker 4: through it. But what else does the redesigned team need
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  Speaker 4: to keep in mind?
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  Speaker 3: The commuters?
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  Speaker 1: And it's that's something that you're trying to do redesign
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  Speaker 1: or re create or reramp.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be mindful of the people, the travelers.
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  Speaker 1: I think it should be a little bit clearer with
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  Speaker 1: the tracks for Long Island Railroad.
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  Speaker 4: It is not clear and there's often times that the
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  Speaker 4: signs aren't even putting up the tracks.
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  Speaker 5: And you think that when you ask Penn Station, you
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  Speaker 5: think it's like they're talking about one place and you know,
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  Speaker 5: and it's all connected to one place. You don't think
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  Speaker 5: that they're all in each state. You don't know that
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  Speaker 5: until you start talking to me, Oh, you have this
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  Speaker 5: a Penn station here, Pen Station in DC, Pen Station
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  Speaker 5: in Baltimore. I never knew that.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, she hit it. Yeah, I didn't mentioned Philadelphia. The
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  Speaker 1: other one she left out was Newark. Literally, she forgot
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  Speaker 1: to mention Penn Station in Newark. That's what I had.
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  Speaker 1: Look at us, we are always on the same wavelength. No,
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  Speaker 1: let's not go so far. Yeah, okay, you know you're
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  Speaker 1: really no.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, nobody mentioned that is a shelter now for homeless
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  Speaker 3: people right this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Actually there wasn't. There wasn't as many.
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  Speaker 4: There was only one guy who was definitely sheltering there
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  Speaker 4: in a wheelchair backing it.
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  Speaker 1: Up, and I was like, we should put some belts
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  Speaker 1: on that thing. Beep, you know. Anyway, now we are
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  Speaker 1: not on the same one.
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  Speaker 4: Now, some Republicans are doubling down on their calls to
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  Speaker 4: name Penn Station after the President, So of course we
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  Speaker 4: got to run it back.
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  Speaker 1: What would commuters think of that? I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: get into that. Yeah, I'll stay quiet on that one.
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  Speaker 2: It's not happening.
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  Speaker 1: He already got a tower.
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  Speaker 5: We're good.
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  Speaker 1: We don't even want that one. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: he's racist.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think that should be because it could be
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  Speaker 5: taken down in years from now. You want something that's
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  Speaker 5: going to continue going year and generational. You don't want
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  Speaker 5: something's going to be taken out just because of one icon.
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe it when he says it wasn't his idea?
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  Speaker 1: I can't.
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  Speaker 5: I can't with him, you know, I used to believe
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  Speaker 5: some stuff, but now I just I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think we'd laugh and talk of the of the world.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the President had said that when that original idea
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  Speaker 4: had come up, President Senator Chuck Schumer and union leaders
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  Speaker 4: came up with the idea of naming Penn Station after him,
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  Speaker 4: and then, when asked earlier this week, the White House
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  Speaker 4: spokesperson Caroline Levitt responded, why not, So, I guess we'll
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  Speaker 4: just find out if they come up with a different
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  Speaker 4: name or not.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think by the time Trump leaves office, there'll
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  Speaker 3: be plenty of edificies, buildings, arches named.
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  Speaker 1: In his honor. What would your name, Ben Station?
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  Speaker 3: Right now? Jalen Brunson Station, Right, he's the most synonymous.
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  Speaker 1: That one guys for this year?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: If next year then they so make the playoffs take
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  Speaker 1: that name down?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Next Oh, that'd be a good idea. Sell the rights
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  Speaker 1: every single year.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, it could be done, so you would fetch
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  Speaker 3: a lot of money. Oh no, kidding.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, my god, some of the prices they're paying
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  Speaker 1: now to put names on stadiums, hundreds of millions right now.
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  Speaker 3: Larry and Natalie will be joined by you, same time,
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  Speaker 3: same place, on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 3: There are people probably at the greyhound station right now,
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  Speaker 3: ready to pound the hound, saying next stop, Madison, Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 1: George Floyd, Round two.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get into the nitty gritty details up next, but first,
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  Speaker 3: the NEOs A ninet