The city Department of Transportation will begin soliciting public input on four multi-mile greenway projects in the outer boroughs next week with two workshops in the Bronx, the agency will announce Monday.

amNewYork first learned that the DOT would open the public engagement period for a plan to construct a new 15-mile greenway along the east Bronx waterfront next Wednesday, Nov. 4. Greenways are continuous paths that snake between roads, greenspaces, and waterfronts — designed to give cyclists and pedestrians corridors where they can move safely without having to contend with vehicular traffic.

The Nov. 4 event will run from 6 to 8 p.m. at the BankNote Building at 1231 Lafayette Ave. in Hunts Point. It will hold a virtual workshop during the same hours the next month, on Thursday, Dec. 3 Bronxites can register for both events online .

The agency will begin hosting public workshops for three more greenway projects connecting eastern and southern Brooklyn, the northern Staten Island waterfront, and the southern Queens waterfront starting next year.

“Greenways connect New Yorkers to parks, jobs, and other major neighborhood destinations with safe paths to walk, run, or bike," DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn said in a statement.

"We’re excited to conduct a community-driven planning process so New Yorkers can share their vision for generational public space upgrades in their neighborhoods," he added. " I encourage everyone to make your voices heard about the future of these greenways at one of our workshops.”

The four projects are included in six "early action" plans — a collaboration between DOT, the Parks Department and the city Economic Development Corporation — that the Transportation Department says will add over 40 new miles to the city's greenway network.

The other two are on the northern Queens and western Bronx Harlem River waterfronts; planning is underway on the former and is complete on the latter.

All six corridors were announced by former Mayor Eric Adams in 2023. They are all funded by a $7.25 million federal RAISE grant that former President Joe Biden's administration awarded to the city in 2022.

The plans are part of a larger vision that the Adams administration released for building far more greenways around the city last year: dubbed “ Greater Greenways. ”

The Bronx project will run from Randall's Island eastward all the way to SUNY Maritime, which sits on a peninsula in the East River below the Throgs Neck Bridge. The agency says it will make it easier for Bronxites to commute to industrial zones, such as Hunts Point, and better connect waterfront parks in the Soundview and Throggs Neck areas.

The 12-mile Brooklyn undertaking is designed to fill in the gaps between existing greenways on Ocean Parkway, the oldest in the United States, and Eastern Parkway — establishing a cycling connection between Coney Island and Highland Park. On Staten Island, the planned 10-mile greenway will traverse The Rock's entire North Shore, from the Staten Island Ferry landing in the east to the Goethals Bridge in the west.

The Queens plan involves constructing a greenway that connects the existing Jamaica Bay greenway to paths further east, making John F. Kennedy International Airport more accessible.

Ethan Stark-Miller is amNewYork's Transit Editor. He covers the MTA (including the subways and buses), the city Department of Transportation, and all other forms of getting around in the Big Apple. He previously covered politics for amNY.

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