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NY COMMUTERS BEWARE The Daily News is reporting that New York City officials are being pressured by the Secret Service to close Pennsylvania Station for at least part of the GOP Convention.

(For what it's worth, The New York Times offers a completely different analysis in this late-February story.)

I can certainly understand why law enforcement officials might want to shutter Penn Station (which sits more or less on top of Madison Square Garden) during the convention. And I'm sure steps could be taken to mitigate the impact of a shut down.

But even so, a blanket cancellation of Penn Station train service seems to me like a recipe for mass transit paralysis.

Maybe not as bad as we saw during last year's blackout. But it won't be pretty.