Over the years, we’ve published a few catty articles on this site that attacked some poorly thought out new transit ideas running through Queens. So let’s be clear: we need to build all of it.
(more…)
Category: Rockaway Beach Branch
-
Build Everything: Queens Needs Transit.
-
‘Qns’ Lower Montauk Study Transit Stumbles into Public View.
This past weekend, the NYC DOT (very) quietly released their study on creating a new rail transit route through Queens. Let’s take a look at this seemingly futile piece of research into a transit project that won’t exist anytime soon.
(more…) -
Abandoned Coca-Cola Distribution Center & LIRR Glendale Junction, (Queens) NY
Examining the long forgotten history of a Central Queens industrial zone, with one abandoned warehouse in particular.
(more…) -
Abandoned LIRR Woodhaven Blvd Station (Rockaway Beach Branch)
The Woodhaven blvd rockaway beach branch station is an important neighborhood piece of infrastructure that currently sits in ruins.
(more…) -
Abandoned LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch – White Pot Junction
Where the hell is White Pot Junction?
(more…) -
Abandoned Ozone Park LIRR station & the giant spider that lived there
In 2002, Me, M, and a reporter climbed up onto the old LIRR Rockaway Beach tracks in Ozone Park.
(more…) -
Abandoned LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch – Park Politics Edition
In Queens, a desperately needed transit option for multiple communities is under attack.
(more…) -
A Better Plan for Queens Transit Needs
In a separate post, I dissected Elizabeth Crowley’s ‘Light Rail to The Mall’ plan. Realizing this probably makes me look like a really mean spirited guy, allow me to put forth a far more superior plan.
(more…) -
‘Queensway’ – So much for democracy?
Map of proposed park Here is a story that will frustrate anyone who has ever been tasked with trying to get to JFK airport from anywhere in NYC. Instead of reusing a branch of the LIRR which was shut down back in the 1962 (when LIRR was the red-headed stepchild of the Pennsylvania railroad – which looted its cash), the current governor of New York is backing a plan to convert the tracks into a park.
(more…)