Tables, Chairs, Granite Blocks Installed On Jamaica Avenue: DOT

QUEENS — The Department of Transportation added more pedestrian space on Jamaica Avenue by installing tables, chairs, and other items along the corridor.

The department added 4,500 square feet of pedestrian space between 160th Street and Union Hall Street, installing planters, granite blocks, tables, and chairs to the commercial avenue.

The project was done in collaboration with Downtown Jamaica BID, a nonprofit business conglomerate.

The city department also announced it will break ground on the bike lane hardening along Queens Boulevard on May 8. Crews will add 0.75 miles of delineator-protected bike lanes with Jersey Barriers on Queens Boulevard, notoriously known to cyclists as the Boulevard of Death, from 72nd Street to Grand Avenue.

Last month, the Transportation Department announced that 33rd Avenue in Bayside is set to become a bike boulevard, from Utopia Parkway to 215th Place, by 2023.