New York City\u2019s first new transit line in decades would drastically cut commute times for residents who live and work in neighborhoods along the route. With the proposed $5.5 billion Interborough Express, those traveling between less connected parts of Brooklyn and Queens would no longer have to take trains into Manhattan and then transfer.<\/p>\n
But that doesn\u2019t mean that residents of the two boroughs are universally welcoming the new train, as contributor Benjamin Schneider observed at recent community meetings about the IBX. The project will likely prompt a surge of development along the line, and usher in a more urban future for the suburban parts of Brooklyn and Queens. An exciting prospect for some, he writes, and a scary one for others. Today on CityLab: A Train Grows in Brooklyn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City\u2019s first new transit line in decades would drastically cut commute times for residents who live…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[98,288,5915,3339,5869,2301,2423,75,661,9,24,63,122,124,123,608],"class_list":{"0":"post-67833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-c-suite","11":"tag-cities","12":"tag-citylab","13":"tag-immigration","14":"tag-janno-lieber","15":"tag-manhattan","16":"tag-military","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-queens","21":"tag-queens-headlines","22":"tag-queens-news","23":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67833","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=67833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}