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Rebuilding Seawall

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Ground was broken last Friday, May 10, on the restoration and improvement of the seawall at Queensbridge Park in Long Island City during a ceremony attended by Rep. Carolyn Maloney, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, City Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, State Sen. Michael Gianaris and representatives of the city’s Economic Development Corporation. As noted, the project-for which Van Bramer secured the final $3.65 million in funding needed to begin work-involves the installation of “rip-rap,” large rocks to protect the shoreline by absorbing and deflecting waves. The project will also create a 6′-wide promenade with benches and plantings and a small wharf. Van Bramer is pictured (fourth from left) along with (from left to right) Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski; Elizabeth McQueen, founder and president of Friends of Queensbridge Park; City Parks Commissioner Veronica White; Maloney; Marshall; Bishop Mitchell Taylor of the East River Development Alliance; and Gianaris.


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