Overview

• The master plan aims to connect and expand the city’s roughly 500-mile greenway network by identifying six early-action corridors spanning about 40 new miles.
• Proposed early-action routes include a 7-mile stretch in Southern Queens, a 10-mile Staten Island North Shore waterfront path, and gap-fill projects in Upper Manhattan.
• A longer-term vision in the plan would convert much of Manhattan’s Broadway into a car-free greenway for cyclists and pedestrians.
• City officials present the initiative as an equity-driven effort to improve access to parks, waterfronts and safe active-transport options in historically underserved neighborhoods.
• Agencies expect construction on early-action corridors to begin as early as 2028, with each segment taking roughly two years to complete.