"WESTERN QUEENS" a SHORT FILM

Sunnyside Yards - Queens Daily Eagle Opinion: Dissolve the EDC and empower the people on urban development by Emily Sharpe

December 4, 2019: my letter to the NYCEDC in anticipation of the Sunnyside Yards digital townhall. By Connie Murray Hi and thank you for taking my questions and comments in quick advance of the digital townhall meeting tonight. It's disappointing this meeting could not happen in person: holding

Trivia Night: Sunnyside Yards Edition Questions. Test your knowledge of the Sunnyside Yards mega-development project based on the city-funded feasibility study and appendix. Then tell your friends... 1. Which statement is MOST ACCURATE? The Sunnyside Yards Feasibility Study: a. Identifies key considerations, planning principles and provides a development

Opinion: Imagine the disruptive impact of Sunnyside Yards September 12, 2019 Special to the Eagle By Emily Sharpe We’ve probably all seen a movie where the public defender in a trial instructs the dubious jurors to close their eyes, relax and do their best to envision what it would

NYCEDC UNVEILED by Emily Sharpe Residents and small business in western Queens are being descended upon by New York City’s Economic Development Corporation or EDC, a supposed public entity that acts like a for-profit growth-based corporation putting its thumb on the scale to determine which industries, projects

SUNNYSIDE RESIDENTS ORGANIZE AGAINST VISHAAN CHAKRABARTI’S MONSTROUS VISION by Lynn Ellsworth Sunnyside is a neighborhood of Queens, adjacent to the sprawling railroad tracks called ‘Sunnyside Yards’.  Various entities, from the Big Real Estate Lobby to the the Regional Plan Association to Alicia Glen’s Economic Development Corporation to various

This month's newsletter is set to music, and illuminates how the subway is the life-blood of New Yorkers.  A majority of western Queens residents commute to work by subway, at rates close to twice the borough and citywide averages. Before we spend hundreds of billions of dollars

By Mitch Waxman @newtownpentacle Just like a venereal disease, the Sunnyside Yards deck keeps on coming back. Have to hand it to the NYC EDC. Like a career boxer, despite taking a whupping in their last trip to the ring (Amazon), they have laced the gloves back up and they’

STOP THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 180-ACRE DECK - ALMOST 7X LARGER THAN HUDSON YARDS - OVER THE SUNNYSIDE RAIL YARDS THAT WILL CAUSE DISPLACEMENT AND OVERCROWDING OF RESIDENTS AND SMALL BUSINESSES IN WESTERN QUEENS! by Emily Sharpe Mayor Bill de Blasio and other elected officials want to use our tax dollars