Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Highway Removal

What Should Happen to the Sheridan Expressway? Share Your Ideas Tomorrow

By Ben Fried | Oct 14, 2011 | 6 Comments

The potential teardown of the lightly-trafficked Sheridan Expressway in the South Bronx is the most exciting street reclamation initiative in the works anywhere in NYC. For years, local advocates doggedly built the case for replacing the aging highway with housing, parks, and other uses. Recently we’ve seen some major breakthroughs that make the teardown an […]

Take a Tour of the Sheridan Expressway (While You Still Can)

By Noah Kazis | Jul 29, 2011 | 4 Comments

When taking a tour of the Sheridan Expressway, the first thing you realize is that you’re also taking a tour of the Bronx River Greenway. The two pieces of infrastructure — one a 1.25-mile stub of highway, the other a still-piecemeal bike and pedestrian path reconnecting Bronx neighborhoods to the water — both run through […]

To Study Sheridan Teardown, City Pulls Back the Lens

By Noah Kazis | Jul 22, 2011 | 1 Comment

When the state Department of Transportation studied removing the lightly-used Sheridan Expressway, it considered two scenarios. One predicted conditions with the Sheridan kept as is. The other imagined closing the highway to traffic without making any other changes — simply fencing off the 1.25 mile structure. Making a decision about the Sheridan’s future by comparing […]

Syracuse Looks to Highway Removal to Revive Downtown Economy

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 17, 2011 | No Comments

All cities have physical barriers that divide neighborhoods and social classes. In Syracuse, one of the biggest is Interstate-81. On the east side you have the area known as “The Hill.” There, Syracuse University and its affiliated hospitals and research centers have fostered growth and prosperity. On the west side of the highway, things aren’t […]

Construction Industry Objections to Sheridan Teardown Don’t Stand Up

By Noah Kazis | Apr 15, 2011 | 19 Comments

The fight over the future of the Sheridan Expressway, a stub of a highway that Robert Moses built but never finished, heated up this week. The construction industry announced its opposition to any Sheridan teardown in a Crain’s op-ed this Sunday, days before experts at a Municipal Art Society panel forcefully made the case for […]

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Moving Beyond the Automobile: Highway Removal

By Elizabeth Press | Mar 29, 2011 | No Comments

In this week’s episode of “Moving Beyond the Automobile,” Streetfilms takes you on a guided tour of past, present and future highway removal projects with John Norquist of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Some of the most well-known highway removals in America — like New York City’s West Side Highway and San Francisco’s Embarcadero […]

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