“Dead serious question: Have you been in the men’s room in Penn Station?” Mr. Carlson demanded of his guest, New York City Councilman Corey Johnson. While the station is in Mr. Johnson’s district, the councilman has little say about how Amtrak maintains the station, which it owns and manages. “Normal people use the men’s rooms in the train station and yours are disgusting,” Mr. Carlson said. The improvements inside Penn Station will coincide with Amtrak’s planned “refreshing” of the interiors of its regional train fleet in the Northeast and Midwest. “I’ve literally been to cleaner bathrooms in rural Pakistan,” Mr. Carlson said in an interview on Thursday, shortly after departing Penn Station on an Amtrak train, sated by a sausage-and-onion slice from Don Pepi.

Source: New York Times September 07, 2017 22:15 UTC