Mayor backs Queens pol’s bill to regulate Amazon’s deliveries
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani threw his support behind a Queens legislator's bill that aims to rein in Amazon and other companies’ use of contracted delivery drivers.
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Locals celebrate opening of controversial Astoria bike lane as court battle continues
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Astoria locals and elected officials celebrated the opening of the controversial 31st Street bike lane over the weekend while several local businesses continue to fight it in court.
Read MoreQueensLink stalls under Mamdani, a one-time supporter of the rail line
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani is moving ahead with the city’s plan to build the QueensWay park project instead of the ambitious QueensLink rail project in Southeast Queens, which he vocally supported in the Assembly and on the campaign trail.
Read MoreEndless construction on the Van Wyck may soon come to an end
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A construction-free Van Wyck? Officials say, you better believe it.
Read MoreQueens riders rejoice LIRR return after strike
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Long Island Rail Road riders in Queens rejoiced on Tuesday as the nation’s busiest rail line started up again after a worker strike suspended train service for three days.
Read MoreLIRR strike causes massive headaches in Queens
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Queens, home to four times as many LIRR stations as the rest of the boroughs combined, felt the pain on Monday as the LIRR workers’ strike entered its third day – and first weekday.
Read More‘Trump Yard’: Locals worry they’ll be cut out of Mamdani, Trump Sunnyside Yard housing plan
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Western Queens locals are wary of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to collaborate with President Donald Trump to build 12,000 units of housing in the World’s Borough, where the mayor once lived and where the president was raised.
Read MoreOpinion: Eliminating stops on the Q47 is a step in the wrong direction
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“For a corporate center that hosts more than a thousand employees every day — including staff at the Department of Corrections, Skanska, numerous firms and the headquarters of the Queens Chamber of Commerce — this change is more than an inconvenience. It is a step backward for our borough’s economy.”
Read MoreTrump’s secretary of transportation takes aim at Queensboro Bridge
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President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy took aim at the new Queensboro Bridge pedestrian lane, which will open this weekend after years of delays.
Read MoreQueens bus network redesign gets official launch date
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The MTA on Monday said that after years of starts and stops, drafts, final drafts, do-overs and approved plans, it finally has set a date for the implementation of its overhaul of Queens’ bus map.
Read MoreMTA says it wants to kickstart IBX – but funding questions remain
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The MTA proposed allocating over $2 billion to pay for the first steps needed to build the Interborough Express, a 14-mile light rail that would connect Queens to Brooklyn.
Read MorePols rail against shared e-scooter program in Queens
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Elected officials in Northeastern Queens railed against a relatively new city-backed program that brought shared electric scooters to their neighborhoods, many of which lack robust access to public transportation.
Read MoreSupport remains for abandoned QueensLink proposal, poll finds
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An overwhelming number of Central Queens residents support a transportation initiative that has been all but cast aside by the Adams administration, according to a new poll from a local elected official.
Read MoreGov’s Interborough Express faces uncertain future after gov’s congestion pricing pause
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A little more than two years after Governor Kathy Hochul first introduced plans to build the Interborough Express, the future of her ambitious plan to build the much-needed public transit option for Queens and Brooklyn residents appears to be uncertain, almost entirely as a result of the governor's own 11th-hour pause on the implementation of the MTA’s congestion pricing plan.
Read MoreSubway rides to increase by fifteen cents come August
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This week, the MTA voted unanimously to increase the price of a trip on a city subway or bus from $2.75 to $2.90.
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