QueensWay Eats Maps The Best Food Finds Along The Proposed QueensWay Linear Park

Neir’s Tavern is nearly 200 years old. It is one of Queens’ most famous (and photographed) locations. Photograph Courtesy of Neir’s Tavern

In a few years, Queens will join Brooklyn as the latest New York City borough to receive a major upscale facelift. The change will come with the construction of the QueensWay, a proposed 3.5-mile greenway snaking through Queens’ six neighborhoods. Though it hopes to avoid the over-gentrification that the High Line brought to west Chelsea only a few years ago, the QueensWay seems poised to connect the neighborhoods by repurposing the Rock­away Beach Branch of the Long Island Rail­road into park space, currently an abandoned dumping ground.

QueensWay Eats is an effort to provide a little context to the project that most say will change Queens for the better, a map of all the best restaurants within walking distance of the proposed line.

The interactive map follows the line of the proposed QueensWay, detailing the area’s best food. The list spans pizza, bakeries, sushi, and ethnic finds from Guyana, Israel, Hungary, and Poland.

The QueensWay will con­nect­ north­ern and south­ern Queens with a pedestrian path and bikeway, it would also include space for out­door school classrooms, play­grounds, public space for com­mu­nity and cul­tural pro­gram­ming. Many say that it is poised to be the monument (in park form) that Queens has been lacking, one that will unite its comparably disjointed neighborhoods.

The map, curated by Jonah Gar­nick, a former intern for the Trust for Pub­lic Land, spans the entire borough, much like the proposed linear park. Natives of Queens and visitors alike have quite a few good meals to look forward to, on top of the brand-new park and public space.

Next, read about our behind-the-scenes tour of the QueensWay with the Trust for Public Land. Get in touch with the author @jinwoochong.