Grieve-Smith on Transportation

This appears today as a letter to the editor, on Page 8 of the Woodside Herald (PDF).In a June 4 op-ed, Sunnyside Chamber of Commerce President Ira Greenberg laid out the Chamber's transportation agenda for making Queens Boulevard better for business… more »

I heard the horn honk a second time and turned around. There was a man parked in a minivan sitting at the corner. I pointed to myself with a questioning look on my face, and he nodded and beckoned me over. "Want a ride?"My mother always told me no… more »

Jimmy Van Bramer's staff got an updated version of the zoning proposal, dated May 19, and passed the maps on to Christian Murray, who posted them on his Sunnyside Post blog. The main differences I could find between the February maps that I posted … more »

The Department of City Planning has initiated a process to rezone Sunnyside and part of Woodside. They have their agenda, developers have their agenda, and various residents and business owners have theirs.Here's my agenda: I think Sunnyside and Woo… more »

The MTA is doing track work on the #7 line to improve speed and reliability. That's good. As they have done for previous track work projects, they will be shutting down the line between Queensboro Plaza and Times Square for the next several weekends. Tha… more »