Infrastructure Plans

QueensLink includes a 3.5-mile stretch of currently abandoned track that could potentially be reactivated, converted, and integrated into the subway system alongside 33 acres of new parks. The plan also proposes extending the M train from the Queens Boulevard Line down the defunct LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch, joining A trains on the Rockaway line to Rockaway Park - Beach 116 Street.

To help identify NYC’s most heat-vulnerable neighborhoods, Columbia University and the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) developed a Heat Vulnerability Index (HVI) that combines metrics proven to be strong indicators of heat risk through validation with health data and that describes both social and physical characteristics.