Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Woodside

Boulevard of Life, Phase 1: DOT Will Add Protected Bike Lanes to Queens Blvd

By Stephen Miller | Mar 31, 2015 | 71 Comments

A key section of Queens Boulevard will get protected bike lanes this summer, DOT announced today. The improvements are the first phase of a broader $100 million overhaul that will encompass seven miles of the notoriously dangerous street. Queens Boulevard is one of the only continuous east-west connections in the borough, making it a natural biking route, but […]

Big Turnout for DOT’s First Queens Boulevard Safety Workshop

By Ben Fried | Jan 22, 2015 | 6 Comments

Change is coming to the most feared street in New York. More than 100 people turned out last night to tell NYC DOT how they want to improve safety on Queens Boulevard. Known as the Boulevard of Death for its appalling record of traffic fatalities and injuries, Queens Boulevard functions as a surface-level highway running […]

Eyes on the Street: A New Sidewalk and a Safer Crossing in Woodside

By Brad Aaron | Aug 5, 2014 | 4 Comments

A simple fix from DOT has made it easier and safer for pedestrians to walk between Woodside and Jackson Heights. Angus Grieve-Smith posted the above photo on Facebook of 37th Avenue at 69th Street, near Broadway and the BQE, where DOT has added new sidewalk space on the south side of the avenue [PDF]. In the […]

Two of the Most Dangerous Streets in Queens Set for Safety Upgrades

By Stephen Miller | May 20, 2014 | 7 Comments

DOT has proposed concrete safety improvements for Northern Boulevard and Broadway, two of the most dangerous streets in Queens. If supported by Community Boards 2 and 3 next month, the projects could be implemented by the end of the year. On Northern Boulevard between 63rd and 103rd Streets, DOT has proposed adding nine pedestrian islands […]

Pedestrian Islands Coming to Deadly Northern Boulevard Intersection

By Stephen Miller | Apr 2, 2014 | 1 Comment

The intersection of Northern Boulevard and 61st Street in Woodside, where an unlicensed truck driver making a left turn through a crosswalk killed 8-year-old Noshat Nahian on his way to school last December, is set for some pedestrian safety fixes after months of work by elected officials and street safety advocates. Members of Make Queens Safer […]

Unlicensed Truck Driver Kills Noshat Nahian, 8, in Northern Blvd Crosswalk

By Stephen Miller | Dec 20, 2013 | 42 Comments

This morning just before 8:00 a.m., Noshat Nahian, age 8, was on his way from his home on 32nd Avenue to school at PS 152 when a tractor-trailer driver turning left onto Northern Boulevard struck Nahian in the crosswalk along 61st Street. He was pronounced dead at Elmhurst Hospital. The driver of the truck, Mauricio Osorio-Palaminos, 51, of Newark, New […]

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