Razing roadway would unlock 100 acres for development

For decades, NYCDOT has asked, “How should we rebuild the crumbling triple cantilever of the (BQE)?” 

We at Off-Ramp ask a different question: “Why would we rebuild this midcentury relic of Robert Moses?”

New York City Cannot Repeat Boston’s Big Dig Mistake

The city must learn from its neighbor to the north.

New York’s highways have decimated whole cities.

The same activism that saved the Brooklyn Heights Promenade could bring down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

Flash flooding in the BQE trenches endangers passengers and vehicles alike. At-grade transit with adjacent rain gardens would be a safer solution.

Removing highways can breathe new life into cities—so why are cities so slow to actually do it?

Over 1,000 New Yorkers gathered at Hunter College for a discussion on the future of the city’s urban freeways.

“New York is overdue to make a decision on the future of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. So, which way, Gotham? Double down on the insanely bad ideas of the Robert Moses era, or chart a new course?”

“Freeways and cities don't mix. Especially these twelve.”