Transit
I was invited to ride along with the Transportation Alternatives Queens Volunteer Committee’s social ride on Sunday, which ended up carrying me all over the western edge of a Long Island. The meetup spot was at the Jackson Heights Roosevelt stop on the 7/E/R/M, so I left Astoria and travelled via the R train. The trip…
All that anyone seems to talk about in Queens these days, at least in my circles, is how crowded the subways have become. According to the MTA, they’re experiencing record ridership, which is actually a good thing as people aren’t driving as much and using mass transit. The bad part is what happens when there’s…
In his recent State of the City address, Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a citywide ferry service that would cost the same as a bus or train ride, including several new routes that would hopscotch along both sides of the East River and would reach as far as the Rockaways in Queens, Soundview in the…
A Festivistmas Kwanzaannukah holiday tradition, the MTA runs vintage Subway cars on the M line on Sundays in the month of December. The rolling stock is maintained by the MTA’s Transit Museum, and I make it a point of attending the event every year. This Q’stoner post from last year goes into some detail on…
The street is worse now thanks to the dot great plan. All the merging takes place after the train station now very dangerous for cars. No difference you must make the traffic lights change at different times from Astoria blvd and off the parkway so all that merging doesn't take place by the triboro bridge.
The DOT Releases a Proposal for Dangerous Astoria IntersectionMany thanks for this informative article! I've long wondered about that station and really appreciate the history you've provided. I'd like to raise two points. First, is that the structural elements you've called "pillars" would more accurately be called arches. Second, is to ask you to explain more about how Northern Boulevard east of what became the Nassau line was called North Hempstead Turnpike. Since that eastern region was part of Queens back then, what was the pre-split significance of the point where the name changed? Why did the change happen at that location before there was a border? Also, if it was Northern that became North Hempstead Turnpike, then how is it that the street I live on, now stuck with the clumsy monicker of Booth Memorial Avenue, was called North Hempstead Turnpike when my family moved here in the late 50s?
Tracking the Evolution of Flushing’s Broadway LIRR StationThe LIC ferry would be an excellent transfer point if MTA utilized the Long Island City LIRR station more often. I suggested to someone that finding some way to add light rail or some sort of transit along the LIRR between Jamaica and LIC would be a great asset to Central Queens neighborhoods. It would connect Jamaica, Richmond Hill, Glendale, Ridgewood and Maspeth, the latter three of which are badly underserved by public transit, directly to the ferry. The station is literally across the street, a lot closer than the 7 train is.
Ferry Days on the East RiverOMIGOD you went to the beach. You went to TWO beaches!
Here, There, and Everywhere in Between: A Trip on 10 Subway Lines and One Bus