NEW YORK CITY-City Council Speaker and leading mayoral candidate Christine Quinn Wednesday sent a letter to Madison Square Garden Co. president and CEO Hank Ratner supporting the idea of a fixed-term 10-year special permit for the venue to continue operations in its current space.

The decade-long agreement would allow the facility to buy time while stakeholders create and execute a plan for the future of Penn Station, MSG and the surrounding area.  To reach that goal, in her letter Quinn calls for the formation of a commission for a 21st century Penn Station that would be charged with two tasks: finding a new home, within Manhattan, for a state-of-the-art Madison Square Garden; and creating a Penn Station that better suits the needs of the hundreds of thousands of current and future travelers who pass through it every day.

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