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New York Opens Most Expensive Train Station Ever

Jaw-dropper...

New York has an Instagram-ready attraction whose defenders insist no one will remember it is the most expensive train station ever, Michael Kimmelman reports on nytimes.com on the opening last week of the new World Trade Center transportation hub in lower Manhattan.

At first blush, Santago Calatrava's architecture can almost -- almost -- make you forget what an epic boondoggle the whole thing has been. That virgin view, standing inside the Oculus and gazing up, is a jaw-dropper, Kimmelman wrote.

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