Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Corona

Driver Backing Up to Park Kills Lin Qinyun, NYPD Blames Victim [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Mar 14, 2016 | 40 Comments

Update below A driver backing up to get a parking space killed a woman in Queens and NYPD blamed the deceased victim. Lin Qinyun, 64, was crossing 37th Avenue at 113th Street in Corona at around 8:45 a.m. last Friday when she was struck by a 54-year-old woman driving a Ford SUV. NYPD faulted Qinyun for the […]

Safer Streets for Corona and Elmhurst vs. Queens Community Board 4

By David Meyer | Feb 11, 2016 | 13 Comments

This could be a big year for safer street designs in Corona and Elmhurst. DOT’s plan for a protected bike lane on 111th Street is poised to improve access to Flushing Meadows Corona Park, and the agency is expected to move ahead with the second phase of its Queens Boulevard redesign. The way things are […]

Eyes on the Street: DIY School Zone Traffic-Calming in Corona

By Brad Aaron | Feb 9, 2016 | 3 Comments

Today Transportation Alternatives staff and members of Families for Safe Streets are in Albany, asking legislators to allow NYC to install speed enforcement cameras near every school in the city. This example of a crossing guard’s efforts to defend school kids in Queens, courtesy of Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson Jr., is another good illustration of why the state should lift arbitrary […]

Ferreras-Copeland and Peralta to DOT: Fix Northern and Junction

By David Meyer | Dec 17, 2015 | 1 Comment

Following the hit-and-run killing of 17-year-old Ovidio Jaramillo at the intersection of Northern Boulevard and Junction Boulevard last week, local elected officials and DOT Queens Commissioner Nicole Garcia toured Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst streets yesterday with an eye toward safety improvements. Northern and Junction are wide two-way streets, with Northern being especially large. Both are priority corridors […]

Mujeres en Movimiento to Queens CB4: We Need a Safer 111th Street

By David Meyer | Dec 11, 2015 | 5 Comments

Members of Mujeres en Movimiento, a Corona-based group of Latina mothers who bike, packed into Queens Community Board 4’s monthly meeting on Tuesday to have their say about DOT’s proposed redesign of 111th Street. The only way to get to Flushing Meadows Corona Park from Corona without crossing a highway is to cross 111th Street, but with […]

This Is 111th Street Right Before a World Series Game at Citi Field

By Ben Fried | Nov 10, 2015 | 2 Comments

Residents of Corona are still waiting for DOT to implement a road diet and two-way protected bike lane on wide and dangerous 111th Street by Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The city unveiled the plan this spring in response to a campaign from the Queens Museum, Immigrant Movement International, Make the Road New York, and Transportation Alternatives. Julissa Ferreras, […]

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