Bronx Freeway Fight Takes National Stage

The local environmental justice movement to remove a short, recently renovated Bronx expressway has taken on national prominence. On July 13, NY DOT is expected to release three options that may decide its future, including one to remove it.

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July 13, 2010, 12:00 PM PDT

By Irvin Dawid


Politically it might be seen as truckers who depend on it vs. the "Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance, a coalition of Bronx and citywide environmental, housing and transportation groups" who see it as an "eyesore for Hunts Point residents". Nationally it "has become a battleground in a fight to take urban spaces back from the automobile."

Advocates state " it would ease traffic, improve neighborhood life and right a decades-old wrong committed by the master planner Robert Moses of building an unnecessary highway".

"John Norquist, president and chief executive of the Congress for a New Urbanism, said the Sheridan was "a big important example because it's in New York and it's very visible; it would inspire other people that are trying to do the same thing."

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 in The New York Times - N.Y. / Region

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