Transportation

We just heard Councilman Costa Constantinides is hosting a town hall on the Astoria ferry project. (If you need a little catch up, here’s the mayor’s proposed ferry additions from (…)

As many of you know, it’s Participatory Budgeting season in Astoria! During April 13-19, residents will vote on up to five projects that they want to see funded. Ballot proposals that get (…)

Bacteria found at the Ditmars subway station. Cheese! This morning while going through my Facebook feed, a friend in the middle of the country let out “a yelp of terror” (…)

We love this aspect of the holiday season in NYC—the return of the Nostalgia Trains! Riding on the M line, they started service yesterday and operate between 10 a.m. and (…)

Back in the spring, we wrote about the predictions made about MTA fare increases in 2015: Single ride would go from $2.50 to $2.60 Weekly unlimited pass would rise from (…)

The MTA’s recently released 2015-19 Capital Budget is not the shiniest of new news, but we were excited to see that DNAinfo put together this excellent map of the planned fixes. Just click on (…)

While perusing Astorians.com, I noticed that user @nsutaria posted a link to the draft of the Western Queens Transportation Study. It’s a long document—a 105 page pdf—and goes over the (…)

Travel website Skift turned us on to the news of a new lounge at LaGuardia Airport that opened August 12. American Express is behind it and it’s called the Centurion (…)

A number of news outlets published articles on what’s in store for us in 2015 re: MTA fare hikes. From what we can tell, prices will go up but not (…)

Thanks to all who participated last night in our unexpected twitter community effort after the broken rail at 59th/Lex destroyed the evening’s subway commute. It was much appreciated by many (…)

It’s not surprising to us to see the love Astorians have for the green taxis—when we posted on Facebook last month that the Mayor was not keen on the green taxi program, many (…)

Community Board 1 has linked to this announcement on their website: Forty-six (46th) Street between Northern Boulevard and 34th Avenue will be closed until completion of a fan/vent plant to (…)

In our post about Mike’s Diner renovations, we mentioned the big blue plywood fence across the street around the northwest subway staircase. We got curious about what exactly they are (…)