BQX Advocates Make Pitch for Trolley — But Critics Push Back
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Mayor de Blasio needs to just abandon his beloved $2.7-billion BQX streetcar, opponents said Thursday at the City Council's first trolley task force hearing.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Economic Development Corporation
EDC: LOL, BQX Not DOA, OK?
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The mayor is still pushing his trolley, even after his Department of Transportation named part of its route a "Vision Zero Priority Corridor." Can that really happen?
New York’s Amazon Deal Has Little For Miserable Queens Commuters
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Transit is not going to get appreciably better under this sweetheart deal with Amazon.
Sweetheart Deal for Amazon Includes Tiny ‘Infrastructure Fund’ for City
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Could an "infrastructure fund" help ease the burden of having 25,000 Amazonians move to Long Island City?
South Bronx Greenway Takes Shape on Food Center Drive
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A decade in the making, the South Bronx Greenway segment along Food Center Drive in Hunts Point is almost complete. The loop, which will provide a protected path along a busy truck route past some of the region’s largest food and beverage distributors, is set to open this fall. First proposed by the city in the 2005 Hunts Point […]
NYC Replaces a Parking Crater With Parking-Free Housing and Retail
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One of Manhattan’s few remaining parking craters is going to be filled in with housing and retail — all without any car storage, despite the city government’s belief that the site called for up to 500 parking spots. Call it “Parking Sanity.” The project, called Essex Crossing, is on the Lower East Side. It replaces surface lots formerly known as the […]