We want our kids off their phones and reading books in the library. Too bad drivers don't give a shit. A rant from Streetsblog Editor Gersh Kuntzman.

The city's first truck network overhaul in decades took effect Oct. 4. In Community District 2, it adds five street segments, trims one block of Thomson Avenue, and puts trucks on the same corridor where DOT is proposing new bike lanes.

City officials told CB2's Transportation Committee that the permanent rebuild from Roosevelt Avenue to 73rd Street will break ground next year. The committee voted unanimously to support it.

City agencies backed 18 of the 65 budget requests Queens Community Board 2 filed for FY2027. DEP turned down all seven of the board's sewer and flooding requests.

DSNY previewed Empire Bins but gives no Queens date. Support for domestic violence. LIC pushes public safety into the board's top priorities, a new district manager reports in, and Thomson Avenue bike lanes move ahead.

Firefighters are investigating a report of smoke on the 7 line between Long Island City and Grand Central this morning. The report came in just before 9 a.m. from the Manhattan-bound platform at the Vernon Blvd-Jackson Av station, according to FDNY radio dispatches. Transit officials told the FDNY the smoke appeared to be coming from the Manhattan-bound tube under the East River, and units were sent to both ends of the tunnel.

The farmers market skipped last weekend for the NY Art Book Fair and is back October 3.

DSNY is set to present its trash containerization rollout for Sunnyside, Hunters Point and Woodside, alongside a vote on the board's FY2027 operating budget.

The draft plan gives P.S. 384, PS/IS 78, and the new ACE Elementary their own zones. A CEC 30 vote is targeted before Thanksgiving.

A plan to deck over the 180-acre rail yard and build 12,000 affordable homes is back for the first time since 2020. It has no timeline, no appropriated funding and no approvals yet.

Ottomanelli's DJ Set Ran During a Free Movie Night. Its Parks Contract Says That Shouldn't Happen.

You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.

Five FloodNet sensors in ZIP code 11101 now measure street flooding once a minute and post the results to public data. Together they have logged seven flood events since the first went up in June 2024.

Open House New York's annual architecture festival opens buildings and sites across the city October 16-18. Here's what's on the list in Hunters Point South and Long Island City.

Parks told residents a restroom wasn't in the playground budget. Minutes later, the council member offered to cover it. Shady Park's schematic plan goes to Community Board 2 in three to four months. There won't be another public meeting first.

Council Member says Parks has stalled permits needed to start construction on the Long Island City run, which shut after soil testing came back positive for contamination.

The trees along 47th Avenue between Center Blvd and 5th St fall under NYS Parks. The agency says the work is done and the flags are coming down.

Just 285 parcels built since 2000 hold 79 percent of the neighborhood's residential units, even as three in four buildings on the map went up before 1960

With school chronically over capacity and a third elementary school incubating while its permanent building rises, city planners are weighing new zone lines for three LIC schools; residents get their first real say September 29.

Developer presents as-of-right 495-unit project at the former blood center building to CB2's Land Use Committee; board pushes back on unit mix and parking, but the project needs no community board approval to proceed.

The GrowNYC Greenmarket on MoMA PS1's 46th Avenue plaza returns for its second Saturday this weekend, after a first-week turnout strong enough to send at least one vendor back to restock mid-market.

Today is National Voter Registration Day, a nonpartisan day held every September to help eligible Americans register or check their status before the next election.

Parks will host a virtual visioning session September 24 for residents to weigh in before the Hunters Point playground's redesign is finalized.

Officers gathered outside the stationhouse this morning, saluting in formation to honor those lost 25 years ago today.

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MoMA PS1 will host a new Greenmarket on the 46th Avenue plaza in front of the museum starting this Saturday, September 12, running through November 21.

Nine NYC Public Schools serve the core of Hunters Point South and Long Island City, with five more just outside that core. Six additional schools are under construction or in the planning phases as the neighborhood's population keeps outpacing its classroom space.

Community Board 2's full board convenes Thursday, September 10, at 6:30 p.m. for its monthly meeting and public hearing, with three land use applications, a budget vote, and a new district manager on the agenda.