What is the best use for old railroad tracks? New Yorkers have opinions. ^28.1%

Grist - By Benton Graham - 6/12/2026, 8:15 AM

Appeal to Authority 20.8% - Negativity Bias 16.2% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 15.4%

Travis Terry lives in Forest Hills, a neighborhood in Queens about 5 minutes from an abandoned rail line. He describes the tracks, last used in 1962, as a “blight” plagued by illegal dumping. “It’s been sitting there for 65 years now,” he said, “and those of us in the community, we got tired of what it had become.” Terry has long seen... more