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 More“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 MorePresident 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 MoreThe 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 MoreThe 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 MoreElected 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 MoreAn 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 MoreA 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 MoreThis week, the MTA voted unanimously to increase the price of a trip on a city subway or bus from $2.75 to $2.90.
Read MoreA Queens lawmaker says she has a solution for the congestion caused by city buses in Downtown Flushing.
Read MoreThe City Council voted on Thursday to approve a handful of bills, including one that would require the Department of Transportation to bring “daylighting” to 100 street intersections per year, starting in 2025.
Read MoreThe Long Island Railroad says that service changes are coming to Queens stations in Kew Gardens and Forest Hills after four electeds complained that recent train schedule changes have made their constituents’ commutes tougher.
Read MoreNearly a year after it began, the review of the proposed LaGuardia Airport AirTrain project has been completed – and there will likely be no AirTrain to Queens’ northern airport.
Read More“I’m happy that they came out to support,” said Tsering Wangdu, whose 7-year-old daughter was recently fatally struck by a driver in Astoria. “In the park, we are like a family.”
Read MoreAbout a year ago, the Port Authority put the controversial plan to build an AirTrain to LaGuardia Airport on pause and launched a review of a number of alternate public transit options to the northwest Queens airport. But what ever happened to that review?
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