John Surico, a journalist and activist, has been tapped to herald the QueensWay project into the future. He is the first executive director ever hired to lead the project.
Read MoreQueens buses have been speedier in the 12 months since the MTA’s implementation of a new, controversial bus map in the borough, transit officials said Monday.
Read MoreThe group hoping to push along an ambitious plan to build a new train line in South Queens is moving forward with three studies it hopes will illuminate the potential benefits of the project.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani laid out a broad plan to address safety on New York’s streets on Tuesday, featuring some ideas that have been strongly supported and championed by Queens officials for some time.
Read MoreMayor 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.
Read MoreAstoria 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 MoreMayor 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 MoreA construction-free Van Wyck? Officials say, you better believe it.
Read MoreLong 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 MoreQueens, 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 MoreWestern 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.
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