The Department of Transportation has indefinitely postponed a virtual workshop for the planned 16-mile Queens Waterfront Greenway in order to establish a code of conduct after an in-person workshop in Douglaston last month was disrupted by a clash between Council Member Vickie Paladino and a number of greenway activists.
The DOT’s Oct. 24 community planning workshop at the Alley Pond Environmental Center in Douglaston, aimed at gathering public input on the far eastern segment of the newly proposed 16-mile Queens Waterfront Greenway project, but was disrupted when a number of frustrated local residents voiced their opposition to the plan. The DOT had set up the meeting as a workshop, which is set up for design purposes, not to debate the need for the project.
