Gilston is proud to have been part of the amazing construction team for New York’s new Moynihan Train Hall. The skilled electricians of Gilston helped transform the historic Farley Post Office into a new high-tech concourse of light and color for the western hemisphere’s busiest transportation hub. Passengers, shoppers, and office workers are dazzled as they pass beneath massive steel and glass skylights with thousands of feet of color-changing LED lights. Other electrical highlights include 104 digital wayfinding displays, four jumbo screens, and thousands of custom sconces and hanging fixtures.
Gilston also wired the backlit art of Kehinde Wiley’s hand-painted, stained-glass triptych, which depicts a scene of New York sneaker-clad breakdancers. In addition, the Gilston crew handled the complicated electrical installation of “The Hive,” a three-dimensional sculpture of skyscrapers that hangs upside down like stalactites from the ceiling at the 31st Street entrance. Outside the train hall, on the exterior of the iconic post office structure, Gilston installed a massive architectural lighting system that will turn the previously washed-out facade into an ever-changing colorful light show of wonderment and enchantment.
