The Kissena Park Civic reached out to us last year, requesting traffic claiming at Rose Avenue and Parsons Boulevard. Crashes at that intersection have injured many of our neighbors including a motorcycle hit-and-run that severed the leg of a 77 year old pedestrian (he eventually passed away due to his injuries). We just found out… Read More EQGW Wins New Traffic Signal for Kissena Park Civic
If you appreciate the open spaces of Kissena Corridor Park, you’ll want to join the Kissena Corridor Park Conservancy for “It’s My Park Day” and volunteer a little time to create a better neighborhoods. Date: Saturday, October 21, 2017 Time: 9:00AM to 12:30PM Place: Volunteers meet at Rachel Carson Playground at Colden Street, Flushing, NY… Read More It’s My Park Day
For a little over a year the Eastern Queens Greenway has been dedicated to improving the infrastructure in our community. Working together we can make sure everyone has safe access to their parks. We’ve learned a lot over that time and we hope to continue to grow and evolve to better serve our community. As… Read More Eastern Queens Greenway Rebranding
This Monday the 16th, the Eastern Queens Greenway will be holding its monthly meeting at 7:30. As usual it will be hosted at: Flushing Quaker Meetings House 137-16 Northern Boulevard Flushing, NY 11354 We will also be hosting a petition event on Sunday the 15th. We’d love as many of our volunteers as possible to… Read More Eastern Queens Greenway Monthly Meeting This Monday & Volunteer Event This Sunday
With the full installation of Oceania/210th Protected Bike Lane compete, we’re getting a lot of community requests asking for more street improvements in the the neighborhood. Last Saturday we went to the Greenway to talk to a real sample of community members about what they thought about the improvements. The vast majority of neighbors we… Read More The Neighborhood Thanks Nathaniel Hawthorne MS 74 and Barry Grodenchik for the Oceania Protected Bike Lanes
On September 23rd, Guardians of Flushing Bay and Riverkeeper are having an all day waterfront event on Flushing Bay! Come join us as we celebrate the waterfront and say goodbye to a great summer. The day will include a shoreline clean up along the western side of the promenade. This area, from the Worlds Fair… Read More Help Us Clean Up Flushing Bay
On September 11th, 2017, Community Board 11 Queens tried to destroy the street safety improvements they approved at their previous General Meeting. We could not be more disappointed at the lack of commitment to neighborhood safety, the inappropriate politicking, or the lack of civic process. After the General Meeting on June 5th, when the Northern… Read More CB11 Plays Politics with Safety Infrastructure
Due to a bus driver who killed 3 people (including himself) some streets around the Quaker Meeting House are closed. If you are coming from the south (7 train, LIRR, etc.) walk north along Main Street but take a: Right onto 37th Avenue Left onto Union Left onto Northern Boulevard We look forward to seeing… Read More Meeting tonight change
Local Assemblywoman Nily Rozic has proposed legislation to rename a New York park after activist Heather Heyer. Protesting against white supremacists, Heather was killed when known Nazi James Field used his automobile to run her over. Assemblywoman Rozic would rename Donald J. Trump State Park in honor of Heather. The land was donated to New… Read More Nily Rozic Looks To Rename Park For Activist
This Monday the 18th, the Eastern Queens Greenway will be holding its monthly meeting at 7:30. As usual it will be hosted at: Flushing Quaker Meetings House 137-16 Northern Boulevard Flushing, NY 11354 We will give updates on all of our projects, including CB11’s repeal and replace of the Northern Boulevard protected bike lanes. Please… Read More Eastern Queens Greenway Monthly Meeting This Monday
We have just leaned that Francis Lewis High School student, Raymond Chen, was hit by a New York City bus and is listed as being in “serious condition, but unlikely to die”. He has been taken to New York Presbyterian with a skull fracture and bleeding on the brain. Raymond’s bicycle was struck by a… Read More Queens cyclist in serious condition after being struck by NYC bus driver
The Kissena Park Velodrome opened in 1963, part of a design by Robert Moses. The following year, Olympic cycling trials were held at the track. But in the intervening years, as interest in track cycling waned, the track fell into disrepair. Now as the sport is gaining in popularity, more work is needed to make… Read More Speak Out For the Kissena Park Velodrome
As New York is considering congestion pricing, we wanted to focus on what it would mean for Eastern Queens. New York One recently asked to interview one of our supporters. We’re glad they were able to dig below the surface to look at some of the complexity of the issue. There are many different ways… Read More How Congestion Pricing Helps Eastern Queens Residents
Councilmember Peter Koo, Riverkeeper, and Guardians of Flushing Bay are having an emergency press conference in response to the mass fish kill-off in Flushing Creek. It is believed that this environmental destruction is caused by the Combined Sewage Overflow (CSO) system used in this area. You can join in the fight to upgrade this unsafe… Read More Thousands of fish killed in Flushing Creek by NYC sewage overflows
Oakland Gardens residents and the students of Nathanial Hawthorne Middle School 74Q just got a big safety improvement that our community leaders are excited about. Council Member Barry S. Grodenchik, Congress Member Grace Meng, Assembly Member Nily Rozic, Assembly Member David Weprin, and Community Board 11 Queens Chair Christine L. Haider all spoke yesterday praising… Read More The Community Praises the Protected Bike Lane on Oceania Street and 210th Street
(This article is published with permission from the Kissena Corridor Park Conservancy where it was originally written.) For many years the Kissena Corridor Park Conservancy has advocated for park improvements to increase safety. We have requested better paths and fewer fences so the park is more welcoming and less desolate. We have asked for better… Read More Brutal Crimes Should Have No Place in Our Parks
Thank you to everyone that came out to the first ever Tour de Flushing. We had around 150 cyclists, far more then we ever expected would come out for our friendly little neighborhood bike ride. The route was a little less than 20 miles including a wide variety of path conditions (while out on the… Read More The Tour de Flushing Was a Great Success & We Have Pictures to Prove It
Learn to bike course for autistic beginners is looking for participants and volunteers… Read More Learn to bike course for autistic beginners is looking for participants and volunteers
Today Assemblywoman Nily Rozic publicly announced her support of the Kissena Way project. We are overjoyed at her interest in building a family safe path connecting the parks of Eastern Queens. The Assemblywoman’s district (shown here in yellow) covers much of the Queens section of the Brooklyn / Queens Greenway. Making this a continuous, protected… Read More Assemblywoman Nily Rozic Supports the Kissena Way
On Monday, July 17th the Transportation Committee of Community Board 11 held an emergency meeting to discuss ideas about a protected path connecting Bayside and Douglaston. Earlier this year the same Community Board’s General Committee had already voted to approved DoT’s design for this path, 18 in favor, 11 against (color photo below). The ideas… Read More CB11 Transportation Committee Revisits Already Approved Bike Lane / Street Design
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