 The trust for public land, friends of the Queensway. Queens rocks. I mean, you know, the Ramones were from Queens. What else can I say? I love Queens. It's the greatest place to raise a family. We have great schools, great cultural diversity. It's like living in the entire world in one neighborhood. I grew up here right off of Rockway Boulevard, and this is the Queensway. It's a three and a half mile stretch of abandoned railway that runs right through the heart of Queens. It's an open secret in Queens that this is currently being used for folks that want to do drugs or get rid of their old stuff. It's not a place that you want right next to your backyard. We've all, at one point or another, said, what can we do with this? The idea is to make a linear park. It would be about three and a half miles long and 47 acres all told. A designer's rendering reimagines the space. The Queensway will connect Rego Park, Forest Hills, Glendale, Woodhaven, Richmond Hill, and Nozone Park. In the southern parts of Queens, you have to walk further to get to a park than you do pretty much anywhere else in the city. 323,000 people live less than one mile of the Queensway. 73,000 are kids. Several years ago, you constantly saw in the paper people getting killed crossing Queens Boulevard. Woodhaven Boulevard, good luck getting across it. Walking with a light. You have to cross almost 10 lanes of highway. Cars zip past a stranded pedestrian. One of the benefits of the Queensway is that it gives you the ability to go north and south to school and from school without having to cross a busy road. That's something that any parent would want. It's very important for our children to be able to breathe.