“Transit Deserts” in Queens Spark Student-Led Fight for Subway Line

By MOHAMED FARGHALY

mfarghaly@queensledger.com

Student organizers, transportation advocates, and local elected officials gathered on July 16 beneath the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) bridge at 63rd Drive and Austin Street in Rego Park to call on Mayor Eric Adams and city leaders to support the QueensLink project, a proposed subway expansion that would reactivate a long-abandoned rail line in Queens.

The event highlighted the delivery of a petition bearing nearly 1,500 student signatures to a representative from the Mayor’s office, urging the city to fund and prioritize reactivating the Rockaway Beach Branch rail corridor for transit use rather than converting it exclusively into parkland. The rally coincided with the re

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