QUEENS BOROUGH BOARD TO BE BRIEFED ON INTERBOROUGH EXPRESS PROPOSAL

Monday, September 18 at 5:30 PM

(September 15, 2023 at 2pm)

QUEENS, NY – The Queens Borough Board, chaired by Borough President Donovan Richards Jr., will hold an in-person meeting on Monday, September 18, at 5:30 PM.

The meeting will feature an update from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on the status of the proposed Interborough Express project. The Interborough Express is a proposed 14-mile light rail line that would run between Jackson Heights, Queens and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

This meeting will be conducted in-person in the Borough President’s second-floor conference room at Queens Borough Hall, located at 120-55 Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens. The meeting will also be live-streamed to the public on the Borough President’s website at www.queensbp.org and on the Borough President’s YouTube page.

WHAT:         Queens Borough Board to be Briefed on Interborough Express Proposal

WHERE:       Queens Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Boulevard, Kew Gardens. Public live stream at www.queensbp.org

WHEN:         Monday, September 18, 2023 at 5:30 PM

WHO:            DONOVAN RICHARDS JR., Queens Borough President

Members of the QUEENS BOROUGH BOARD

SEAN FITZPATRICK, Deputy Chief of Staff, MTA Construction and Development

JORDAN SMITH, Senior Manager, Long Range Planning, MTA Construction and Development

About the Borough Board

The Borough Board is chaired by the Borough President under the New York City Charter and comprised of the borough’s City Council members and the chairperson of each Community Board in the borough.  The Board focuses on issues dealing with land use, development, public policy, budget, and other important matters with potential borough-wide implications. The Board hears presentations from City officials and others and, as part of the land use review process, is sometimes called upon to vote on land use questions that impact more than one Community Board District.

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