De Blasio lines up support for Brooklyn-Queens streetcar plan
Officials call for community input from the onset
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposal for a new, self-financed streetcar service that would connect the waterfront from Brooklyn to Queens has drawn a chorus of cautious support from Brooklyn officials, transportation advocates and civic organizations.
Even as they threw their support behind the plan, however, elected officials called for “robust” community input on location, design and financing issues.
The new transit line could be a game-changer for emerging waterfront neighborhoods and those who want to reach them. It would stretch 16 miles from Astoria in Queens to Sunset Park in Brooklyn, linking hard-to-reach neighborhoods, like Red Hook, with some of the city’s fastest-growing job hubs, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard.