There it sits, the northern portion of the deactivated Rockaway Beach Branch rail line, a 3.5 mile-long right-of-way in central and southern Queens that last saw passenger service in 1962. One MTA board member described…
Yesterday, the City Council’s Land Use Committee approved the Astoria Cove high-rise mega-development on the Queens waterfront. The general sketch of the deal is that in exchange for tax breaks and building on land that was previously…
Last month, YIMBY took the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to task for including a request in their upcoming capital plan for $1.5 billion for design and construction of the second, East Harlem phase of the Second Avenue subway,…
When word started circulating of a Port Authority push to extend the PATH rapid transit network from Newark’s Penn Station to the city’s big international airport, the Wall Street Journal’s Ted Mann reported that the…
During Mayor Bloomberg’s twelve years in office, his administration rezoned nearly 40 percent of the city. While the most prominent rezonings, in Manhattan and western Brooklyn and Queens, dramatically increased allowed densities, in the outer…
