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Real leadership can save Penn Station from its homeless plague, Mr. President

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Penn Station doesn’t have to be a homeless-plagued disaster zone — just look at Grand Central Terminal.

Even before one vagrant’s stabbing rampage a week ago, local leaders shrugged off the issue, but New Yorkers (and New Jerseyans) have every right to ask why the city’s primary train station has to be a living room for mentally ill and homeless people.

A few years ago, the lower-level food court at Grand Central was a mess, with vagrants camping out at tables and washing their socks in the restroom.

Some restaurant owners threatened to withhold rent if management didn’t clean up the venue.

The MTA, which owns GCT, got the message and reorganized the........

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