The Greenway enters Forest Park at the Overlook and continues down Forest Park Drive passing the Urban Park Ranger station at Woodhaven Boulevard, the George Seuffert, Sr. The route continues on quiet residential streets such as Hoover and Coolidge Avenues, and on more heavily trafficked ones such as Main Street, and crosses Queens Boulevard. Once in Flushing Meadows, the Greenway runs along the eastern shores of both Meadow and Willow Lakes, exiting the park onto Jewel Avenue. The westward or main line of the Greenway makes its way through Cunningham Park and Kissena Park, and eventually goes around the south side of Queens Botanical Garden on streets, crossing the Whitestone Expressway on its own high overpass into Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. This eastern branch proceeds to the Alley Pond Adventure Course and the Winchester Boulevard bike lane. Using the LIMP, a branch of the Greenway goes eastward into Alley Pond Park to picnic tables, tennis courts and locker rooms. The LIMP section of the Greenway is above-grade and most is closed to motor vehicle traffic. Passing the entrance to Fort Totten Park, the Greenway runs south, parallel to the Cross Island Parkway and is known as "Joe Michaels Mile." After crossing busy Northern Boulevard, the route becomes a well signed bike route along quiet residential streets, climbing to the former Long Island Motor Parkway. The northern terminus of the Brooklyn–Queens Greenway is in Little Bay Park, near the north end of Utopia Parkway in the shadow of the Throgs Neck Bridge. Ĭrossing Long Island Expressway to Cunningham Park The 40-mile (64 km) route includes portions of existing bike routes in Prospect Park, and along Eastern Parkway and Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, and in Alley Pond Park, Cunningham Park, Forest Park, Kissena Park and Ridgewood Reservoir in Queens. The remainder is implemented as painted lanes or signed routes in streets. As of 2007, the majority of the route is in parks or otherwise segregated from motor traffic. The Greenway is being developed under the joint auspices of the New York City Department of Transportation and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. The route connects major sites in the two boroughs, such as the New York Aquarium, Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the New York Hall of Science and Citi Field.
The Brooklyn–Queens Greenway is a bicycling and pedestrian path connecting parks and roads in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, connecting Coney Island in the south to Fort Totten in the north, on Long Island Sound. ( July 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. The Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency conducted ongoing briefings with elected officials, community boards, and community-based organizations along the Brooklyn/Queens Waterfront and surrounding areas and held public workshops in the area, designed to acquire feedback directly from the residents.This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. Loss of transportation was the greatest infrastructure impact.100,000 residents and 1,700 businesses employing nearly 20,000 people were impacted.
Multi-family buildings were without power and heat between two and three weeks, and some buildings lacked running water.Nearly half of all businesses impacted were industrial.Stillwater flooding caused serious damage.As a very brief overview of what happened during Sandy: The Brooklyn/Queens Waterfront also houses critical infrastructure for transportation and wastewater treatment. The residential units are concentrated in multi-family and mixed use buildings. The built environment is a mix of commercial, residential, and industrial uses. The Brooklyn/Queens Waterfront, which stretches from Sunset Park to Long Island City, and inland along the Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek, is a compilation of nine distinct and diverse neighborhoods that are home to nearly 100,000 residents. Brooklyn/Queens Waterfront Brooklyn/Queens Waterfront Overview