Bring Low Traffic Neighborhoods & Affordable Housing to Western Queens
Show your support for safer, more walkable and more affordable neighborhoods.
About 75% of New York’s street space is reserved for cars, even though 70% of New Yorkers commute by transit. Too often, the result is clogged streets, speeding vehicles, and through traffic cutting through residential neighborhoods.
That mismatch is especially clear in Queens Community Board 1, where ~60% of residents don’t own a car, yet the district contains roughly 180,000 square feet of city-owned surface parking lots.
Our public space should better reflect how residents actually live and get around. Low-traffic neighborhoods can reduce through traffic, make walking safer and easier, preserve parking for local needs, and prioritize mobility for residents.
The same principle should guide how we use public land. By supporting transit-oriented development and converting city-owned parking lots into affordable housing, we can build neighborhoods around people, transit, and community needs—not simply the movement and storage of cars.
I support bringing low-traffic neighborhood and affordable housing pilots to Western Queens to help create safer, more walkable, and more affordable neighborhoods.
Photo of Western Queens Street Safety Plan Press Conference, Courtesy of Queens Daily Eagle