Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Long Island City

Tonight: Kips Bay and Astoria Community Boards Consider Complete Streets

By Stephen Miller | Oct 9, 2013 | No Comments

There are two community board meetings tonight on complete streets plans in Manhattan and Queens. The full board of Manhattan CB 6 is considering a resolution, passed by its transportation committee on Monday, to support a DOT plan to fill in a gap on the Second Avenue protected bike lane. Currently, the avenue from 23rd […]

Pulaski Bridge: Six Lanes for Cars, One Cramped Path for Peds and Bikes

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Oct 3, 2013 | 15 Comments

The Pulaski Bridge is a vital link between Queens and Brooklyn. Since it was built 60 years ago, pedestrians and cyclists have been relegated to a narrow path. The shared path was good enough for some time, but when Greenpoint and Long Island City started growing rapidly a few years ago, that ceased to be […]

On Eve of NYPD Hearing, Van Bramer Calls for Thorough Crash Investigations

By Stephen Miller | Sep 27, 2013 | 8 Comments

Two weeks after a woman was killed while crossing Queens Plaza, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, joined by other elected officials and community leaders, stood at the busy intersection to call for better NYPD crash investigations, safety measures from DOT, and a citywide zero-tolerance policy for pedestrian deaths. Van Bramer’s press conference comes just days […]

Queens Residents, Elected Officials Ask DOT for Traffic Calming in Dutch Kills

By Stephen Miller | Jul 18, 2013 | 3 Comments

The Dutch Kills neighborhood sits on the northern edge of Long Island City, hemmed in by Northern Boulevard and Queens Plaza, with the East River to the west and Astoria to the north. Dangerous traffic is an everyday presence — and not just on the main arteries nearby. After a number of car-on-car crashes, neighborhood […]

New Bike Routes on Tap for Long Island City and Sunnyside

By Stephen Miller | Jul 9, 2013 | 18 Comments

Western Queens is set to receive a slate of street safety and bicycle network improvements. The projects will add shared lane markings and bike lanes to neighborhood streets, improve connections to the Astoria waterfront and Greenpoint, and address pedestrian safety at the site of a fatal curb-jumping crash. The progress comes after more than a year of […]

Queens CB 2 Committee Supports Fixes Where Driver Killed Teen on Sidewalk

By Stephen Miller | Jun 14, 2013 | 5 Comments

On March 11, Tenzin Drudak, 16, was on the sidewalk on Thomson Avenue across from Applied Communications High School, where he went to school, when the driver of a maroon Dodge Caravan careened across three lanes of oncoming traffic, between metal barriers, onto the sidewalk, injuring four and killing Drudak. The driver, Mohamed Keita, 36, was […]

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