What is QueensLink? We’re a group of grassroots activists seeking to improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers in the borough of Queens by reactivating the abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch. You can learn more about us on our website,

The future of Queens shouldn’t cater to a select few. Communities should decide how we forge a better borough. Use our letter writing tool below to tell local elected leaders that Queens doesn’t want an anti-transit scheme. We need QueensLink NOW! .

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QueensLink beach day! 🌊🏖️ We had a blast talking to Rockaway residents about #RailsandTrails 🚉🌳 QueensLink would save about 40 mins round trip, bringing fast and equitable transit coverage to the city's best beaches! #transitequity

There's been some chatter about the anti-transit scheme and whether or not they lost funding. Here's what's going on.

In 1973, most E service was cut back except for a few rush hour trains to Rockaway Park. Just three years later it was cut back again to World Trade Center all times, where it has remained since.

That’s right. For nearly 20 years there was a one seat ride from Queens to Queens. The journey time from Far Rockaway to Jackson Heights? About an hour and a half. #buildtheQueensLink

Thanks @yptnyc for joining us on a walking tour of the QueensLink right-of-way!! 🌳🚉 It was an amazing opportunity to showcase how community-oriented urban planning and transit solutions can help bring access and equity for Queens residents! Let's #BuildtheQueensLink

@NYPIRG @NYCMayorsOffice You can read the student-led report here: .

Yesterday, @NYPIRG students at Queens College joined community advocates to call on the city’s leaders and the MTA to advance the QueensLink project. The rally highlighted the release of a student-led report and over 1,500 petition signatures from students to the @NYCMayorsOffice

As a new subway only needs two of the four tracks, rebuilding the viaduct at a similar dimension allows a proposed elevated linear park to run alongside the new line. This concept has the added benefit of city owned commercial space remaining underneath the viaduct!.

The Camden Highline offered an alternative vision for a mixed-used viaduct with similar dimensions to what currently stands in Ozone Park. The QueensLink right-of-way in this section is also quadruple-tracked, with commercial space leased out by the city below.

Early iterations of the QueensLink proposal in Ozone Park looked at elevating the rail line on its own two-track concrete viaduct with a park below at street level, a rails & trails integration common in North America.

The railroad, which dates back to the 1850s, was quadruple-tracked through this section but was reduced to two operational tracks in 1984. Since then, those tracks have sat unused. The linear park as designed would be built on these unused tracks.

Unlike its Manhattan counterpart, the Highline is a proposed linear park on an active railroad viaduct, carrying the North London line through the London borough of Camden.

QueensLink was inspired by a variety of rails & trails projects. So we’re starting a new series, looking at projects from around the world that inspired us and why!. First up, the Camden Highline!

We had a blast at the Jamaica Bay beach cleanup yesterday!! The #QueensLink vision would take thousands of cars off the road, preventing harmful pollutants from contaminating runoff water and harming these valuable ecosystems. Let's protect our environment and #BuildtheQueensLink

The train was initially marked as the “HH”, but was changed to the H when double letters were dropped from the subway system in 1985. Internally, the MTA still refers to the current Rockaway Shuttle as the H, a service that QueensLink aims to replace!.