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The community plan would tear down the Sheridan and replace it with open space and affordable housing. A teardown of the Sheridan Expressway in the Bronx looks like an even stronger idea, now that design changes to NYSDOT’s Bruckner/Sheridan Expressway Interchange project have removed a key justification for keeping the Sheridan. NYSDOT announced [...] This past Saturday a set of architecture and landscape architecture students from the University of Virginia returned to the Bronx to present their visions for the future of the Sheridan Expressway footprint. A community-based plan for the removal of the under-utilized highway is currently being studied by the NYS DOT as a [...] Nearly ten years have passed since regional planning and transportation organizations and community groups in the South Bronx began their campaign to replace the 1.25-mile Sheridan Expressway with 28 acres worth of affordable housing, green space, bike paths, and new economic development opportunities. The Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance, of which Tri-State is a [...] |
 
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