20 THE QUEENS COURIER • JANUARY 19, 2017 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM THE QUEENS editorial PUBLISHER & EDITOR CO-PUBLISHER ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF VP, EVENTS, WEB & SOCIAL MEDIA ART DIRECTOR ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR ARTISTS SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER STAFF REPORTERS CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS EVENTS COORDINATOR ASSISTANT TO PUBLISHER CLASSIFIED MANAGER CONTROLLER PRESIDENT & CEO VICE PRESIDENT VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS BOB BRENNAN ROBERT POZARYCKI AMY AMATO-SANCHEZ NIRMAL SINGH CHERYL GALLGHER RON TORINA, JONATHAN RODRIGUEZ EMILY DAVENPORT KATRINA MEDOFF, ANTHONY GIUDICE, ANGELA MATUA SUZANNE MONTEVERDI CLIFF KASDEN, SAMANTHA SOHMER, ELIZABETH ALONI JACLYN HERTLING DEBORAH CUSICK CELESTE ALAMIN MARIA VALENCIA VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS Schneps Communications, 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361 718-224-5863 • Fax 718-224-5441 www.qns.com editorial e-mail: editorial@qns.com for advertising e-mail: ads@qns.com Entire Contents Copyright 2017 by The Queens Courier All letters sent to THE QUEENS COURIER should be brief and are subject to condensing. Writers should include a full address and home and offi ce telephone numbers, where available, as well as affi liation, indicating special interest. Anonymous letters are not printed. Name withheld on request. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, AS WELL AS OP-ED PIECES IN NO WAY REFLECT THE PAPER’S POSITION. No such ad or any part thereof may be reproduced without prior permission of THE QUEENS COURIER. The publishers will not be responsible for any error in advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Errors must be reported to THE QUEENS COURIER within fi ve days of publication. Ad position cannot be guaranteed unless paid prior to publication. Schneps Communications assumes no liability for the content or reply to any ads. The advertiser assumes all liability for the content of and all replies. The advertiser agrees to hold THE QUEENS COURIER and its employees harmless from all cost, expenses, liabilities, and damages resulting from or caused by the publication or recording placed by the advertiser or any reply to any such advertisement. SNOWY SUNRISE IN BAYSIDE // PHOTO BY THERESA EISLER VIA FACEBOOK Send us your photos of Queens and you could see them online or in our paper! To submit them to us tag @queenscourier on Instagram, visit our Facebook page, tweet @QNS or email editorial@qns.com (subject: Queens Snaps). A ‘QueensWay’ forward for the borough For more than 50 years, the old Rockaway Beach branch of the Long Island Rail Road has been rotting away before our very eyes. It’s time for something to be done with this 3.2-mile-long blight cutting through the heart of our fair borough. In past editorials, we have advocated for bringing back public transportation on this corridor, and we still believe that enhanced rail service is desperately needed in the southern reaches of Queens. Th e cost for such a project, however, is prohibitive, and it may take decades for any new subway/rail lines in Queens to be built. Look at how many years and how many billions of dollars were spent on the Second Avenue Subway — and there’s still much more work to be done there. Queens, however, has the opportunity to transform the abandoned Rockaway Beach LIRR line into the QueensWay, a proposed linear park that can meet the recreational needs of more than 2.3 million Queens residents at a fraction of what it would cost to develop park land. We say it’s time to get it done! Advocates for the QueensWay presented the proposal at our offi ce this past week and helped us understand the potential of this project. Th e QueensWay aims to give the borough’s residents additional space to spend quality time in the outdoors; to exercise; to walk or bike in relative safety; and to have greater, quicker access to the wooded oasis that is Forest Park, and help reach the park’s untapped potential with new playgrounds and recreational areas. Th e groundwork for the QueensWay is already in place. Its projected cost is $170 million, relatively little for a legacy project such as this; the city already owns the land, so there’s no need for new acquisitions. Th e Friends of the QueensWay and the Trust for Public Land have the funds in place to begin designing and potentially even begin building. At some point, the public transit needs of this borough must be addressed. It will take years and cost billions to do it, and this eff ort must also get started now. In the meantime, however, there’s no reason to sit on the QueensWay any longer, or to allow the Rockaway Beach line to continue rotting away. Th e QueensWay should move forward, and we encourage Queens Borough President Melinda Katz to take a leading role in getting this done. Despite the challenges that remain, this project has the potential of reshaping the borough and making Queens an ever greater place to live. STORY: These 12 neighborhoods in Queens are among the most expensive in New York City SUMMARY: A recent study published by PropertyShark has placed twelve neighborhoods in Queens on a list of the top 50 priciest in all of New York City for 2016. REACH: 19,426 (as of 1/16/17)
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