“The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) has blighted New York City for decades, dividing and dehumanizing neighborhoods while spewing toxic pollution into our lungs and generating oppressive noise levels for all those who live and work in its vicinity. Today’s announcement to scale back the BQE, as I have long advocated, is a positive first step toward ending the harmful legacy of this roadway and finally creating the flexibility and space to comprehensively reimagine a pedestrian-friendly transit and infrastructure network for the future.
“I am also encouraged by the corridor-long community planning process that, if implemented meaningfully, will engage New Yorkers from Queens to Staten Island in re-envisioning how we move as a city. A real planning vision for the corridor, rather than a piecemeal rehabilitation, is the best hope we have to tap into the federal and state investment that our transit infrastructure so desperately needs.
“We must seize this opportunity to pave a green path forward for our city – one that puts people over cars and public space over pollution.”
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