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Until Robert Moses came along, after which every borough outside of Manhattan got royally screwed with noisy and polluting elevated freeways, demolishing thousa
by kunai 7y ago
Until Robert Moses came along, after which every borough outside of Manhattan got royally screwed with noisy and polluting elevated freeways, demolishing thousands of housing units in the BX and black and brown neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens.
Things change over time. It's never too late to reverse that painful legacy, and this 14th St. project is but the first step.
- jcranmer 7y agoPedantically speaking, many of the freeways are actually at-grade or sunken: e.g., Cross-Bronx, Grand Central, Major Deegan. Still had massive deleterious effects on their neighborhoods, though.