The Queens Boulevard Urban Design Plan, winner of an ASLA-NY 2019 Merit Award, transforms this dangerous arterial into a safe and healthy infrastructural landscape. Two of the roadway’s twelve moving lanes become pedestrian malls defined by large canopy trees divide the wide road into smaller spaces with shorter pedestrian crossings. 

Broad decked walkways elevated above interconnected soil zones are designed to receive stormwater runoff from the roadway while providing sufficient air and water to support robust tree growth. The project repairs a gash through the urban forest of Queens with 4500 new trees.

The redesign of Queens Boulevard is a top priority in Mayor DeBlasio's Vision Zero Plan, which seeks to eliminate deaths and serious injuries from traffic conflicts. The redesigned street becomes a connector rather than divider between neighborhoods. Widened medians improve social and ecological health along the 5-mile corridor.

In collaboration with New York City Department of Transportation and ARUP.