Hamilton Ave in Red Hook, before and after the construction of the Gowanus Expressway and BQE in the 1940s-50scrowbahr t1_j674rnd wrote
Reply to comment by volkommm in Hamilton Ave in Red Hook, before and after the construction of the Gowanus Expressway and BQE in the 1940s-50s by TheSandPeople
Ah yes. New York was truly a city of poverty, meagerness and poor economic activity back before 1950. So starved for economic output because it didn't have low density roads running through the middle of it. All of new York was built after 1950 highways.
The stock exchange? Yep highways did that. Broadway Musicals? You guessed it: directly caused by the BQE.
The benighted city was lost and adrift. Nobody could live here, nobody could visit. No business was ever done in New York before semi trucks!!
BAWWWKKK t1_j687wkq wrote
Sides there are better ways then destroying mass amounts of residential land… aka one of the best Metros in the entire nation. If only we’d had one of those!
/s for those who can’t tell.
crowbahr t1_j68cbc3 wrote
Imagine if they had built the subway before the BQE. It's a real shame that the entire subway was built only in 1976. What could have been....
Pool_Shark t1_j68yqbo wrote
Before the 1950s we didn’t have most of our goods delivered by 18 wheelers either.
Not saying the highway was a good thing, but it’s more complex than you are making it out to be.
crowbahr t1_j68z73d wrote
Unrecoverable losses obviously. No possible way to change anything ever. We should continue to breath brakepads.
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