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PRESENTATION
MTA station improvements and accessibility enhancements
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This chapter details the proposed improvements to the Willets Point MTA station, addressing current accessibility issues and enhancing the overall user experience.
- The existing station lacks elevators and has difficult-to-navigate ramps.
- Proposed improvements include a raised plaza, new ramps, elevators, and bridges for improved accessibility.
- The redesign will allow for continuous public access from Flushing Meadows Corona Park to Citi Field and the integrated resort.
- A new food hall, 'Taste of Queens,' will be incorporated near the station, offering local food options at various price points.
Gregg Pasquarelli
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When you get off the seven train at the Willets Point Station, it's a pretty tough station.
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There isn't there is there aren't elevators.
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The ramps are difficult.
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There's a lot of up and down.
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This is what you first see when you get off the train.
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And this is what you will see when you get off the train in the rebuilt MTA station.
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There'll be a raised plaza.
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They'll it will come out.
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There will be ramps, elevators, bridges, accessibility, and then the ability to get across and through the station outside of the fair zone so that it makes a continuous public access from Flushing Meadow Corona Park to Citi Field and the integrated resort and the soccer stadium.
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Looking back at the station, this is what it looks like today.
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And here you could see the newly rebuilt MTA station, and then on the left side is a a food hall that we're calling the Taste of Queens that has a lot of local offerings of of food and and at very different price points and becomes a really a public market for the entire community.
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This is looking towards the East, towards where the soccer stadium will go.
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You could see it's all parking lot today.
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And then here you see the Taste Of Queens food Hall.
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The park continues along the right field side of Citi Field and makes a a wonderful, generous, open public space to get from the train station to Willits Point East and to this soccer stadium.
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Here you are down in the middle of the parking lots along the left field side of Citi Field.
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And what it will be like in that 25 acre park when it is completed.
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Really, we've worked a lot with the community on programming and and everything, and it's really coming together quite well.
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And then the East West connections along Roosevelt.
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There's a lot of broken sidewalks.
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There's places where there are no sidewalks.
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There's no dedicated bike lanes.
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There's, you know, chain link fences.
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And the next slide, please.
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That's the before, and then the after, we're setting the integrated resort back so that there's a lot of natural sunlight on both sides.
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There's separated dedicated pike land bike lanes.
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There's playing fields and courts and places to sit, places playgrounds for kids, really making a kind of an ability for people from Corona to Flushing to connect across Roosevelt and bring the community together.
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And then this is on the Southfield, it's on the South Side of of the 7 train.
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This is the current condition.
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And here you can see all the the playing fields and ball courts that we are proposing.