'This is a once-in-a-generation project for Queens.'
But the pols and advocates were left disappointed last month when the mayor announced, a rival project that would convert the disused rail corridor into a linear park running from Rego Park down to Ozone Park.
“This is a once-in-a-generation project for Queens,” Imas said in an interview. “This is a modern greenway where there has been very little park investment.” “We want to bring these benefits to central Queens in the near term and create an urban game-changing project for the borough and the community,” Imas continued.
City Councilwoman Selvena Brooks-Powers, who reps the peninsula’s eastern end and chairs the Council’s Transportation Committee, deemed Rockaway a “transit desert” where residents are often stranded waiting for trains, which ultimately ferry them on a long and arduous commute.
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