Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Astoria

DOT Proposes East-West Bike Route on 31st Ave in Queens

By David Meyer | Mar 15, 2016 | 15 Comments

Last summer, a group of Queens residents began organizing as the Queens Bike Initiative. Their mission: to push the city to build bike connections linking their neighborhoods in northern Queens to the borough’s parks. Nine months later, DOT has presented a plan to stripe a bike route on 31st Avenue [PDF], which the Queens Bike Initiative is lauding […]

Queens CB 1 Votes for Protected Bike Lanes By Astoria Park

By David Meyer | Feb 17, 2016 | 5 Comments

By a vote of 33 to 1 last night, Queens Community Board 1 endorsed DOT’s plan for traffic-calming on the streets around Astoria Park. Local electeds requested traffic-calming in the area after a hit-and-run driver killed 21-year-old Betty DiBiaso at the intersection of 19th Street and Ditmars Boulevard, at the park’s northeast corner. The DOT redesign will add two-way protected […]

DOT’s Astoria Park Safety Plan Calls for 3 Protected Bike Lanes

By David Meyer | Jan 21, 2016 | 51 Comments

Last June, a hit-and-run driver killed 21-year-old Betty DiBiaso at the intersection of 19th Street and Ditmars Boulevard, next to Astoria Park. The loss of DiBiaso prompted a neighborhood-wide discussion about the need to improve street safety around one of Queens’ most visited parks, and on Tuesday night DOT showed Queens Community Board 2 its proposals for the area […]

Richard Brown: Homicide Conviction for Driver Who Killed Betty DiBiaso

By Brad Aaron | Nov 20, 2015 | 3 Comments

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown won a homicide conviction against a hit-and-run driver who killed a woman near Astoria Park last summer. Betty Jean DiBiaso was leaving the park at around 12:26 a.m. on June 27 when Nicholas Colleran, 24, ran a stop sign and hit her with a Chevrolet sedan as she crossed Ditmars Boulevard […]

Residents Tell DOT Their Ideas for Safer Streets By Astoria Park

By David Meyer | Oct 30, 2015 | 1 Comment

Nearly 60 neighborhood residents came out for a public meeting on Wednesday night to brainstorm ways to calm traffic around Astoria Park in Queens. Council Member Costa Constantinides organized the meeting in response to the June 27 hit-and-run death of 21-year-old Betty DiBiaso at the intersection of Ditmars Boulevard and 19th Street, at the park’s northeast corner. State […]

Simotas Calls on DOT to Make Astoria Park’s Shore Boulevard Car-Free

By Stephen Miller | Aug 6, 2015 | 8 Comments

Assembly Member Aravella Simotas wants Astoria Park to be New York’s next car-free park. In a letter sent to DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg this week [PDF], Simotas urged the agency to make Shore Boulevard between Astoria Park South and Ditmars Boulevard a car-free space. Shore Boulevard runs along the East River within Astoria Park, and it’s one of […]

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