New public park opens near Jamaica’s Atlantic Avenue Extension
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Gateway Park is located in a once vacant lot beneath the AirTrain tracks.
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Flushing leaders bash Main Street busway plan
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“Many businesses fear that the busway will make travel to Flushing more inconvenient for customers.”
Read MorePro-cop motorists plan ‘honking caravan’ through Central Queens
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“Oh great, just as the constant fireworks started to die down, now we having a parade of honking cars in addition to the drag racing/muffler cut-outs I’ve been listening to for months.”
Read MoreMTA makes Juneteenth an official agency holiday
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Juneteenth commemorates the end of the slavery.
Read MoreCongested stretch of Jamaica Avenue will go bus-only, de Blasio says
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“I think it’s long overdue that we make surface transportation a priority.”
Read MoreQueens economy set to reopen June 8, as Cuomo and de Blasio outline return plan
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“Reopening does not mean that we're going back to the way things were.”
Read MoreSE Queens remains ‘shameful’ omission in NYC’s pedestrian streets plan
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The city’s “Open Streets” plan still excludes Southeast Queens.
Read MoreMayor plans park restrictions before opening streets in Southeast Queens
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“I don’t understand why we don’t have equity with our streets being closed.”
Read MoreNYC car-free streets plan includes three Queens parks
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“Open streets are going to be another way we promote social distancing.”
Read MoreMTA suspends overnight subway service indefinitely
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“This is an unprecedented time and that calls for unprecedented action.”
Read MoreWorking Families Party backs Khaleel Anderson in vacant Assembly District 31
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The COVID-19 outbreak has thrown the race into disarray.
Read MoreOnline Metrocard exchange pays the fare for essential workers
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“People who were posting about sharing them and people who were posting about needing them weren’t in the same places online.”
Read MoreBike shops power Queens through the COVID crisis
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“This store has been there for over 100 years, we’ve seen it all.”
Read MoreDisability rights advocate fight for transit accessibility
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As a Manhattan Supreme Court judge hears oral arguments in a class action lawsuit against the MTA Wednesday, advocates for the rights of the disabled will rally across the street and at concurrent events throughout the city.
Read MoreQueens commuters call for equity and frequency in bus network overhaul
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A coalition of transit advocacy groups and local lawmakers gathered in Jamaica on Thursday to describe a list of recommendations from Queens commuters to improve the MTA’s transformational boroughwide bus redesign plan.
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