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Cars Get Police Protection at Rally for Full Travers Park Plan
Hundreds of Jackson Heights residents, and scores of children, angrily protested the continued use of 78th Street by a politically-connected car dealership that has halted plans for a long-promised block-long greenspace between 34th Avenue and deadly Northern Boulevard.
May 12, 2019
SEE IT! Hundreds Rally to Keep Cars Out of Travers Park in Jackson Heights
It's a dangerous, combustible situation. Streetfilms auteur Clarence Eckerson Jr. covered Saturday's rally and filed this film report.
March 31, 2019
The City Might Give Up Its Plan to Ban Cars On One Jackson Heights Street
The city may surrender a years-in-the making plan to transform a Jackson Heights street into a pedestrian friendly car-free plaza because of a well-connected, wait for it, car dealership!
March 21, 2019
Two More Deaths Bring a Bloody End to a Bad Year for NYC Pedestrians
Two more pedestrians were killed by drivers in the waning hours of 2018 — a year that saw an increase in pedestrian deaths despite declining fatalities for cyclists and motorists overall.
January 1, 2019
DOT Plans Small ‘Big Jump’ into Bike Lane Expansion in Queens
But new routes proposed for Elmhurst, Corona, East Elmhurst, and Jackson Heights fall short of their supersized name.
October 18, 2018
Public to DOT: Give Us Safety On Northern Boulevard
Opponents and supporters of prior street safety battles agree that the "New Boulevard of Death" must be fixed.
October 17, 2018
Three Drivers Have Gotten Away With Murder on Northern Boulevard This Year
The good news is that the DOT is committed to making street-safety improvements.
October 10, 2018
Council Member Danny Dromm Wants A ‘Pedestrian-Friendly’ Northern Boulevard
Dromm is the latest local official to demand that DOT take aggressive action to slow down drivers on Northern Boulevard.
October 4, 2018
Another Person Killed By Driver on Northern Boulevard — Queens’s New ‘Boulevard of Death’
This is getting ridiculous.
September 9, 2018
The Sunday Parking Free-for-All on Junction Boulevard
On Sunday, parking meters aren't in effect, people double-park by the dozen, and access to commercial streets gets harder.
July 9, 2018
