Wondering if the IBX will improve your commute to the EFMR or 7 trains? Here's a video that illustrates the very impractical transfer. pic.twitter.com/yz0jWwcM3f
— Juniper Park Civic (@junipercivic) November 12, 2025
Pressure was on the MTA Thursday night to end or change plans for the IBX in Queens, as a number of local residents claimed the nearly $6 billion light-rail is “not needed or wanted” in their neighborhoods.
Over 100 Middle Village and nearby residents filled seats inside Christ the King High School’s auditorium on Nov. 6 to voice their opinions on the project, which centers on the construction of a 14-mile light-rail that would have a direct connection from Queens to Brooklyn without touching Manhattan.
MTA representatives at the meeting said the train, which already entered its environmental review phase last month and is in design contract, will be beneficial for residents because it will provide fast and direct transit service between the two boroughs.
“We’ve noticed there is significant travel demand between and among Brooklyn and Queens,” said Jordan Smith, IBX project director, adding that environmental review is a milestone for the project. “It’s a process that requires the MTA to take a hard look at what potential environmental impacts could result from the IBX project.”
While the MTA tried to focus the meeting on environmental scoping — the act of analyzing potential environmental impacts — attendees overwhelmingly voiced their opposition to the entire project, or at least the parts of the railway that would run through their neighborhoods.
At the top of the list of concerns was upzoning, which would likely attract more people to the relatively quiet parts of northern Queens.
“There will be upzoning with the City of Yes, and now with the proposals that just passed, high-density housing at market rate can get built, so it’s going to destroy the neighborhood,” said Lee Rottenberg, a Middle Village resident. “When we bought our house here, we knew it was a two-fare zone. We didn’t want to live near a subway station.”
City of Yes is a zoning reform that allows more housing to be built in places where it was historically not permitted. This can include the creation of basement apartments, conversion of commercial space into residential units and new construction. The goal is to address affordable housing concerns in NYC.
The initiative aims to create approximately 82,000 new homes over the next 15 years.
14 comments:
"IBX"? Sounds like a bird on an ancient Egyptian tomb painting.
Shorter walk to the 69th street #7station.
https://www.silive.com/news/2025/10/first-city-of-yes-development-on-staten-islands-south-shore-sparks-community-outcry.html
CITY of YES is a disaster ready to happen.
I’m shocked by the amount of crime I saw😱
Who put that PDFile in the White House? Invest in infrastructure, not Argentina and Israel.
Wrong direction Georgie.
The PDFile and his family are swimming in cash from meme coins, "gifts" from oil rich nations, "gifts" from oligarchs etc..
Maybe he can spare some small change to bring New York's infrastructure from the 19th century to the 21st century?
Placing a rail commuter between #7 train and Carnese Brooklyn whatever places Ridgewood & Glendale ground zero for all sorts of garbage looking for work, to steal, to mug etc. Especially if the new socialist mayor somehow hands out free fares to the worst kind of people. People need to fight this with all they got.
Its not about transportation, its about integration and misery sharing at gunpoint. Take a walk under the 7 train, do people need to see that on Myrtle ave Glendale?
Nobody I know wants a John Rocker express installed in the last decent neighborhoods in Queens. Robert Moses even knew this decades ago regarding those tracks.
Its an even worse situation with the Bayridge tracks, Two major 24 inch or so gas lines to supply 1/2 of Queens and LaGuardia airport are under them. It not intended for the pounding commuters rail or giving the public (including terrorists) access.
This is all Zohran Mamdani's fault.
Surely by the time this message does get posted, the PDFile in the White House will have been arrested.
Prove me wrong ...
Last time they tried this, Serf stopped it, and back then he wasn't even elected, all he had done is invent d'Amato
Absolutely insane, some of those stations like Roosevelt and Grand Ave already have enough commuters as it is, how you gonna dump more on them?
Has Taco released the Epstein files yet? Is it "classified" because Epstein worked for Israel?
A 5 minute walk to save an hour on public transit to get to Brooklyn? Seems practical to me.
To bad City of Yes and this years ballot questions have poisoned the well by introducing the threat of upzoning.
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