Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Jackson Heights

Trick or Treat in the Street

By Ben Fried | Nov 1, 2012 | 2 Comments

We interrupt our post-Sandy coverage to bring you these pictures from Halloween last night at the 78th Street Play Street in Jackson Heights. The Jackson Heights Green Alliance put on the event, “Trick or Treat in the Street,” and Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson sent over these photos. This is the kind of thing residents can do in the […]

Jackson Heights Community Board Votes to Extend Parking Meter Hours

By Stephen Miller | Oct 22, 2012 | 4 Comments

On Thursday, Queens Community Board 3 voted to support a more sophisticated way to price on-street parking on commercial streets [PDF], supporting DOT’s proposal to bring the PARK Smart program to Jackson Heights. PARK Smart can be the most effective traffic-reduction policy in DOT’s toolkit. In some NYC neighborhoods, drivers cruising for parking constitute nearly half of […]

Eyes on the Street: Jackson Heights Work Zone Redux

By Brad Aaron | Aug 30, 2012 | 11 Comments

Clarence snapped a photo of the construction sign at Northern Boulevard and 82nd Street in Jackson Heights, which earlier this week displayed the wrong speed limit. Motorists should no longer be under the impression that they should drive faster through the work zone. We’d love to know what spurred the correction. Any guesses?

Eyes on the Street: The Not-So-Barren Jackson Heights Plaza

By Stephen Miller | Aug 22, 2012 | 8 Comments

Business owners in Jackson Heights have done more than just take over maintenance of the plaza on 37th Road. They’ve rechristened it “Diversity Plaza,” and they staged a community celebration that concluded on Monday to mark Eid-ul-Fitr, the breaking of fast at the end of Muslim holy month Ramadan. It seems the plaza was anything […]

Jackson Heights Turnaround: Business Owners Will Help Maintain Plaza

By Stephen Miller | Aug 20, 2012 | 18 Comments

A group of business owners who decried the 37th Road pedestrian plaza in Jackson Heights after it opened have come around and launched a group to act as stewards of the new public space. This turn of events comes after persistent work by Council Member Danny Dromm’s office and local merchants, who are now working together […]

Jackson Heights Embraces 78th Street Play Street and Makes It Permanent

By Noah Kazis | Jul 5, 2012 | 1 Comment

“It’s just a street. It’s asphalt. It doesn’t look like anything,” said Jackson Heights resident Donovan Finn of the block of 78th Street between Northern Avenue and 34th Avenue. “But it feels like something.” Finn’s neighbors, it seems, agree. Two years ago, Jackson Heights residents and City Council Member Daniel Dromm won a hard-fought battle […]

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