Published May 5, 2023
Other items of interest in this report include the fact that MTA doesn't have agreements yet with All Faiths Cemetery, CSX, or Buckeye. They have to find a way to make the line cross over the freight tracks twice in Brooklyn so that access is maintained for freight customers and the Buckeye Pipeline needs to be moved to accommodate the tracks.
Do we think this is entire line will only cost $5.5B and be built in 5 years?
ouch
I would be suspicious of anything promised unless there was a punitive clause attached to it
Queens Borough President Donovan Richards requested that the MTA investigate the feasibility of an IBX station at Queens Blvd, which is detailed in this report. This would be an elevated station on a reconstructed bridge that carries the line over the road. The ability to widen this bridge is questionable because of the presence of Sola Woodside, which is built right next to the current bridge. However, if this were to happen, it would trigger an upzoning of northern Maspeth and southern Woodside. The circle represents 1/2 mile from the station, which has been mentioned as the target development area.
bqrail.substack.com/p/interborough-express-design-and-engineering
Remove Eliot Ave and relocate it to Queens Blvd. Done
Agree with most of the comments below… However, if that were to take place the deal that the MTA offered is to remove the Elliot Avenue stop in lieu of the Queens Blvd. stop and that is what we want.
Vultures. We deserve a voice. This is our life. They dont care. It's cruel
The Middle Village IBX doesn't make sense because it doesn't connect directly to any major form of mass transportation
A station south of there at around 51ave would be a better idea. Build a station on the LIRR too. This way the IBX would have something it needs- a direct connection to Manhattan. One huge Flaw with the IBX is doesnt connect to Manhattan. At its Woodside (or some say Jackson Heights) Terminus, its not really close to the 74street station even though MTA maps claim it is. Its a long walk. Personally I am skeptical that this will ever get built
Anyone have an interest in protesting the IBX? I plan to do so on Wednesday, September 16th at 4:00 at the maspeth MTA IBX pop up to take place at Grand Avenue and 74th street at the bus stop. There is power in numbers so I hope to see you all there. The pop up runs from 4:00-6:00. Let’s keep the IBX out of our neighborhoods! There is too much at stake.
Im more concerned with the governors plan to take properties along the route for creating about 50k new apartments. Not homes. Supposedly a wait list. So who is waiting?
Seriously: This project would NECESSARILY mandate zoning changes. Let’s not be naive: the zoning changes would lead to more development and gentrification, and lead to a decline in standards of living. IBX seems like a good idea, but it’s not.
Leave our neighborhood alone!
I don't think you're going to be able to stop it. Every single neighborhood has been affected and overcrowded with the development of large buildings. Middle Village is not going to be removed from their plan. If they plan to have an Elliott Avenue stop it will be full steam ahead.
Everything they're doing is questionable
So you thought this was about transportation?
Hochul Pitches IBX Transit-Oriented Housing 'Dream' - Streetsblog New York City
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Gov. Kathy Hochul's vision for the proposed IBX light-rail includes a hell of a lot more housing in Brooklyn and Queens.It was always about apartment buildings all along eliot Ave
Oh Great Lord !
So you decide to make a single family community into an apartment house megalopolis and ruin the kind of life that millions have saved a lifetime for, just so you can make money for your investor friends. It shows you have no clue about this city and its neighborhoods and the people who spend dearly to live there. Shame on all of you. 67 years in Middle Village.
your home value will go up!
Nightmare more like it
Always about real estate. That's where the money is... and follow the money.
Does the community get to vote on this?
Why construct 60,000 new units when there are about 57,000 vacant rent stabilized units sitting out there right now and over 6,000 vacant NYCHA units. With the proper policy change nyc could fill these apartments without destroying our neighborhood!
This is all about gentrification! The city wants the houses near the line to build affordable housing
Give me 2 million dollars so I can buy a comparable home to what I have outright away from NYC because at my age and current income I cannot afford to pay a mortgage and HOA fees and maintenance charges and you can have my house.
OMG this is terrible.
It's not about more housing, it's about creating a voting bloc with more liberal/left voting by young INDOCTRINATED COLLEGE TRANSPLANTS!! Wake up NYC!
Vote her out!
It’s always been about punishing neighborhoods and communities that don’t support them
November can’t get here fast enough to vote this vile woman out of office
She wants her hands in our pockets.
This explains why she didn’t personally respond to my two page letter I wrote her opposing this. I got a cold formal two sentence acknowledgment. She has gotta go.
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.The Connollys are such great people. They always support the community. Love going there for brunch and dinner. Meals are always so good. Always meet up with many people from the neighborhood.
Well done Gents!
Connolly’s has always been there for the community in joyous and sad moments. Thank you Connolly’s
They are
God Bless
Beautiful!! All businesses should do the same!!
Connolly's is the best.
Remembering the lives lost on this day 25 years ago and those who succumbed to 9/11-related illnesses in the time since.
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