Astoria community board approves controversial street plan
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Queens Community Board 1 voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday night to support a controversial redesign of a busy Astoria strip.
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White nationalist group's banners hung throughout Queens
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Banners promoting the white nationalist group Patriot Front were hung from several overpasses along a major road over the weekend in Queens, the most diverse county in the United States.
Read MoreLaw to address illegal truck parking finally goes into effect
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Illegal truck parking has long been a thorn in the side of Queens residents – but relief may finally be on the way.
Read MoreLIC groups join Won in call for more open space under QBB
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A group of community organizations in Long Island City are joining the local councilmember in calling on the city to turn 8.5 acres of city-owned land into new open space as part of the massive OneLIC neighborhood plan.
Read More‘Too frustrating and too confusing’: Restaurants and lawmakers agree city’s outdoor dining program is a mess
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At the height of the pandemic, around 2,500 restaurants’ outdoor dining structures dotted Queens streets.
Read MoreProtestors hold mock ribbon cutting as Queensboro Bridge project delays continue
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Pedestrians and cyclists alike are getting tired of the delays to the plan to open a new pedestrian path on the Queensboro Bridge.
Read More‘Quite confused’: SEQ left out of illegal truck parking pilot despite being plagued by the issue
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When the Department of Transportation last week announced a new pilot program to address illegal truck parking, a group of elected officials in Southeast Queens were not only shocked to hear that their neighborhoods weren’t included in the program, but that there was even a pilot in the works at all.
Read MoreDOT, City Hall give conflicting tales about delayed Queensboro Bridge pedestrian lane
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Conflicting stories told by the Department of Transportation and the mayor’s office have left a long-delayed plan to open separate bike and pedestrian paths along the dangerous Queensboro Bridge in limbo.
Read More‘Boulevard of death’ no more: City completes lengthy Queens Blvd. redesign
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Nearly a decade in the making, the city finally completed its redesign of Queens Boulevard, a strip once known as the “Boulevard of Death.”
Read MoreTensions flare at DOT greenway meeting, with controversial pol at the center
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A Department of Transportation workshop in Eastern Queens about a waterfront greenway went down a rocky path on Thursday night. At one point, local City Councilmember Vickie Paladino, who blasted the plan well before the meeting, stood atop a chair and addressed the crowd. Some attendees said her remarks only made matters worse.
Read MoreScooter wars: Speaker wants city to press ‘pause’ on scooter share program
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Queens officials are calling for the city Department of Transportation to put a temporary “pause” on an electric scooter sharing program it recently rolled out in several Queens neighborhoods, which the officials claim has proven to be unsafe.
Read MoreCity begins planning 16-mile Queens waterfront greenway
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Queens’ waterfront will one day be connected from Long Island City to Fort Totten in Whitestone, according to the city’s Department of Transportation.
Read MorePedestrian-only lane on crowded Queensboro Bridge delayed
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The city's Department of Transportation said this week that the opening of the pedestrian-only lane on the Queensboro Bridge will again be delayed, a month after they told the Eagle that "no changes to the timeline" of the project had been made.
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 MoreOpening of pedestrian-only lane on Queensboro Bridge appears to be delayed – again
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While the city said it planned to fix the chaotic conditions on the North Outer Roadway of the Queensboro Bridge by adding a separate path for cyclists by the end of the summer, their self-imposed deadline now appears entirely out of reach – again.
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