Amtrak will help fund cleanup outside Penn Station

The city’s spending board approved a contract with Amtrak that calls for the government-owned rail company to help fund for the first time the cleanup of the plaza outside Penn Station.

Amtrak will contribute $12,000 annually for cleaning and maintaining the 102-year-old station’s plaza, according to the agreement approved Wednesday by the city’s Board of Estimates. The city had been solely responsible for funding maintenance and cleanup outside Penn Station.

The city’s spending board approved…