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Five Killed in Four Days: Holiday Season Marked by Pedestrian Deaths
In separate crashes in Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx, city motorists killed five pedestrians between Christmas and New Year's Day. Four of the crashes, which took the lives of a child and three young mothers, were hit-and-runs.
January 2, 2013
Trick or Treat in the Street
We interrupt our post-Sandy coverage to bring you these pictures from Halloween last night at the 78th Street Play Street in Jackson Heights. The Jackson Heights Green Alliance put on the event, "Trick or Treat in the Street," and Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson sent over these photos. This is the kind of thing residents can do in the neighborhood after a successful grassroots campaign to permanently repurpose this block, which used to be a through street for motor vehicle traffic, as a public space.
November 1, 2012
Jackson Heights Community Board Votes to Extend Parking Meter Hours
On Thursday, Queens Community Board 3 voted to support a more sophisticated way to price on-street parking on commercial streets [PDF], supporting DOT's proposal to bring the PARK Smart program to Jackson Heights.
October 22, 2012
Eyes on the Street: Jackson Heights Work Zone Redux
Clarence snapped a photo of the construction sign at Northern Boulevard and 82nd Street in Jackson Heights, which earlier this week displayed the wrong speed limit. Motorists should no longer be under the impression that they should drive faster through the work zone.
August 30, 2012
Eyes on the Street: The Not-So-Barren Jackson Heights Plaza
Business owners in Jackson Heights have done more than just take over maintenance of the plaza on 37th Road. They've rechristened it "Diversity Plaza," and they staged a community celebration that concluded on Monday to mark Eid-ul-Fitr, the breaking of fast at the end of Muslim holy month Ramadan. It seems the plaza was anything but empty that night. Eid Mubarak to all!
August 22, 2012
Jackson Heights Turnaround: Business Owners Will Help Maintain Plaza
A group of business owners who decried the 37th Road pedestrian plaza in Jackson Heights after it opened have come around and launched a group to act as stewards of the new public space. This turn of events comes after persistent work by Council Member Danny Dromm’s office and local merchants, who are now working together to ensure the plaza is a long-term success. The plaza's undeniable popularity as a gathering place also hasn't hurt.
August 20, 2012
Jackson Heights Embraces 78th Street Play Street and Makes It Permanent
"It's just a street. It's asphalt. It doesn't look like anything," said Jackson Heights resident Donovan Finn of the block of 78th Street between Northern Avenue and 34th Avenue. "But it feels like something." Finn's neighbors, it seems, agree.
July 5, 2012
Times’ Ped Plaza-Bashing Queens Reporter Enjoys Using Queens Ped Plaza
What is it with the New York Times and the Jackson Heights pedestrian plaza?
June 8, 2012
The Jackson Heights Plaza Is Growing on Some Local Merchants
A package of enhancements and adjustments to the new pedestrian plaza on 37th Road in Jackson Heights -- the object of a high-profile backlash from a group of local merchants this winter -- is winning over some of the skeptics.
April 11, 2012
Jackson Heights Public Plaza, Thursday Afternoon
Courtesy of Clarence Eckerson, Jr., here are some more scenes from the Jackson Heights pedestrian plaza that don't fit the New York Times' preferred narrative. Clarence says he passed through the plaza three times yesterday and it was bustling each time. On a Thursday.
March 23, 2012