I thought this is why they installed citibikes all over 🤷🏻‍♀️

Not to cause arguments, but to go from Middle Village to Brooklyn college takes an hour and a half by train because you have to go through Manhattan. With this train it would be half an hour. Without a car, a lot of Brooklyn is difficult to get to from Queens.

Won't it increase property value across the whole neighborhoods with a stop?

Are you kidding me? This would benefit so many people in our community and the city at large.

The arguments against it are so stupid. Why restrict people's mobility? It's such a pain in the ass to travel between Queens and Brooklyn. The train line will also help get people out of cars, especially on the BQE which is crumbling. Some people think no one will use it but this is straight up false. If you build it, people will use it.

NYC had a trolley system once that's once. How about light rail to small towns in upstate NY

Agree

Better faster transit on an existing right of way is a good idea.

Show up at the meeting on Nov 19 …please!!! It should be standing room only !!!

The IBX requires a population shift to the route of the train line which, on the queens side, involves tearing up one- and two- family neighborhoods and replacing them with high rises in an attempt to create demand to make the IBX viable. This is not just my opinion. The required population shift is clearly alluded to in the Building Congress Report published in June 2025. The IBX is a tale of two boroughs whereby Brooklyn is seeking economic development in five neighborhoods along the route while Queens is a leafy green residential community and residents like it that way. One size does not fit all in this scenario. In reality the IBX is a real estate developers dream but the $5.5 billion project is a huge gamble since there is no guarantee that demand will materialize. The housing affordability crisis requires policy changes so that the tens of thousands of existing apartments can be released into the marketplace rather than warehoused by landlords for various reasons.

We need it.

Expand freight operations is more logical

We don't need it. Noooo!

Giuseppe Francis

The people who will have their homes bought through eminent domain should fight tooth and nail and slow this project down

If done correctly it will be an asset but sadly it won’t and will cause a lot of issues including eminent domain of graves and more properties. We the voters have little input these days developers dump loads of cash aka dark money into getting what they want as we the people get screwed! Even worse we pay higher taxes so developers don’t pay a dime! I guarantee it will cause the foundations of many homes to crumble much like when the Q38 was rerouted to turn onto Furmanville from 80th. That poor home built on land fill the foundation crumbled. Sadly like most of Middle Village especially where this IBX will be around the Juniper park track is land fill as it was a swamp back in the 1930’s. No one remembers nor does the city properly investigate. The constant vibrations will cause very big issues. Driving around you see sink holes everywhere now it will be much worse The area’s infrastructure cannot handle it.

We don't need this in our neighborhood!!

We don’t need it!!

This would have have been nice back in the day when I had to go from Jamaica to downtown Brooklyn for college. Instead I had to go thru Manhattan . Took me over an hour

I don’t think we need this

No. But if they do it anyway, it must not have a stop in middle village. We don’t want it. We have no desire to go to Brooklyn (study showed 6 or 7%). All 5 boroughs do NOT need to look like Manhattan. When the highway was built on Long Island there is a long stretch of road without an exit because the locals didn’t want it. No IBX stop in Middle Village.

They want to put 3 stations within 2 miles of each other. Metropolitan Ave., Eliot Ave., and Grand Ave. are designated for stations. There are no other neighborhoods that have that many so close. We also, have less people due to 1 & 2 family homes. How did they come up with this plan? Ah, they are able to build high-rise apartment buildings around the stations! Pay attention people! We don’t need 3 stations. If we are stuck with this City of Yes garbage, don’t let them push this on us too!

Let's start a revolution what are they gonna do to us power to the people

Say no to IBX

Make those people in favor pay for it.