If Queens had an open space the size of 180 football fields, what would you do with it? That's what the city wants to know Tuesday at a public meeting to brainstorm ideas for Sunnyside Yard, a megaproject that envisions a 180-acre parcel of new land built over one of the busiest train yards in the United States. 

The city held its first public meeting Wednesday night about the future development of Sunnyside Yards, an active 180-acre rail yard in western Queens which officials say could be decked over to create a potential site for new housing, schools, parks and other needed infrastructure—though some community members say they’re worried about the impact such a massive project could have on surrounding neighborhoods.

The city is moving forward with some plan to deck the Sunnyside Yard, but western Queens residents strongly called for any future development to improve, not worsen, the area’s transportation needs. 

Hundreds poured into LaGuardia Community College last night for the first public meeting of the Sunnyside Yard master planning process.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, his deputy mayors, and senior officials will run the city from Queens Boulevard Monday through Friday to get a closer feel for the needs of Queens residents and focus on the borough’s citizens and their concerns.

The wide-ranging proposal to develop the Sunnyside Yard will be the subject of a public meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 24 at LaGuardia Community College.

Potential development of the Sunnyside Yard continues to inch closer to reality, as the first public meeting as part of the master planning process has been set for this month.

Development at Sunnyside Yard has been kicked around for nearly a century, but because of the complexity of any project being built there, has never gotten off the ground.

Early last week, the Sunnyside Yard Steering Committee had its first meeting to commence planning for the much-anticipated project.

The Sunnyside Yard Steering Committee held its first meeting this week, signaling the start to the 18-month master planning process for a potentially massive development at the Sunnyside Yard site.

New York City and Amtrak will begin master planning for development at the Sunnyside Yard in Queens in the summer.

The de Blasio administration is pushing forward with its plan to build a deck over much of the 180-acre Sunnyside Yard in order to construct as many as 24,000 apartments with parkland, schools, commercial, retail and cultural venues at a cost of $19 billion.

A committee will draft a master plan for the long-awaited Queens neighborhood over the next two years, the city and Amtrack said Thursday.

The de Blasio administration and Amtrak will begin crafting a development plan for Sunnyside Yard in Queens this summer, city and Amtrak officials will announce today.

The master planning process for the Sunnyside Yard project, a mammoth plan to build a new, fully planned neighborhood to Queens, will begin this summer, the city announced Thursday.

The Sunnyside Yard megaproject is no longer just a pipe dream; On Thursday, the city and Amtrak jointly confirmed the news that it had hired Vishaan Chakrabarti’s Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) as lead consultant to form a master plan for the proposed megadevelopment.

Planning for the much anticipated Sunnyside Yard project in Long Island City is getting underway in earnest.

The city has taken a significant step forward toward the development of Sunnyside Yards, formally announcing a lead consultant to form a master plan and a steering committee comprised of local leaders to help shape it.

Deputy Mayor of Housing and Economic Development Alicia Glen and Amtrak Chairman Anthony Coscia today announced an agreement that master planning for Sunnyside Yard will begin in summer 2018. The City of New York and Amtrak have signed a letter of intent to formalize collaboration on the master planning process.