{"id":156171,"date":"2026-03-07T13:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156171\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:34:30","slug":"listen-reviving-the-missing-link-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156171\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN: Reviving the Missing Link in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*When this is built, I want New Yorkers to take it for granted\u201d that\u2019s there a north-south train line in Queens, says Andrew Lynch, the chief operating officer of <a href=\"https:\/\/thequeenslink.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">QueensLink<\/a>. \u201cI want people to take this and never think about it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The geographer, cartographer and urban explorer joins Lit NYC to discuss the group\u2019s vision to transform the borough for the better by extending the M train from Queens Boulevard to the Rockaways on a railway that\u2019s abandoned for 60 years while surrounding that with new parks and trails, how he got involved in this crusade, and much more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/queenslink.jpg\" alt=\"A rendering shows the proposed QueensLink elevated train route and park space.\" class=\"wp-image-74775\"  \/>A rendering shows the proposed QueensLink elevated train route and park space. Credit: Via QueensLink<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"*When this is built, I want New Yorkers to take it for granted\u201d that\u2019s there a north-south train&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-156171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}