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Category Archives: Queens

BQX Advocates: Transit Service Sucks, Let’s Build A $2.7B Streetcar | Gothamist

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Neil deMause

Three years after Mayor Bill de Blasio first proposed building a $2 billion-plus streetcar along the Brooklyn-Queens waterfront — a project initially cooked up by Two Trees developer Jed Walentas and other waterfront landholders — the Brooklyn-Queens Connector, a.k.a. BQX, … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Brooklyn, Queens, Traffic and Transit

How A Mythical Soccer Stadium Became Queens’ Biggest Political Futbol | Gothamist

Posted on January 8, 2019 by Neil deMause

Willets Point, the warren of auto-repair shops that for generations sat on a muddy peninsula between the Mets’ ballpark and Flushing Creek, has been targeted for an overhaul ever since “the Mets’ ballpark” still meant Shea Stadium. When the Bloomberg … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Development, Queens, Soccer, Stadiums and Arenas

Amazon Can’t Close The BQX’s Giant Budget Hole | Gothamist

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Neil deMause

Almost from the second Amazon announced it would be opening a new campus on the Long Island City waterfront, talk began that this could be just the thing to revive Mayor Bill de Blasio’s long-stalled Brooklyn-Queens Connector streetcar project. Friends … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Brooklyn, Queens, Traffic and Transit

A First Look At Everything New York Will Give Amazon To Come To Queens | Gothamist

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Neil deMause

For everyone wondering when we would find out how much boodle Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio offered to Amazon in exchange for coming to Long Island City, the answer is now: As part of its official announcement designating New … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Corporate Subsidies, Queens

A Few Questions Need Answers Before Amazon Invades Long Island City | Gothamist

Posted on November 8, 2018 by Neil deMause

Monday’s bombshell revelation that Amazon might be ready to split its new second headquarters in two and locate one half in Long Island City, initially reported in the Wall Street Journal but later repeated by the Times, let loose a … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Corporate Subsidies, Development, Queens

The Many Languages (and Foods) of Jackson Heights | Village Voice

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Neil deMause

Tania Mattos Jose is an organizer with Queens Neighborhoods United, which works to promote sustainable development without displacement in Corona, Elmhurst, and Jackson Heights. Mattos is an unabashed cheerleader for the neighborhood where she grew up — and hopes that visitors … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Queens
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