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Construction on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway began in 1934 and took 27 years to complete.

Construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway required the forcible displacement of tens of thousands of people across the two boroughs. Designed by Robert Moses, the highway cut a nearly 15-mile gash through some of the most densely populated neighborhoods on the planet, ripping the core out of several communities while isolating others and inundating them with traffic. . . . Across NYC, Robert Moses’ highways and “urban renewal” projects required the displacement of over 250,000 people during his forty year reign as the city’s “Master Builder” between the 1920s-60s, according to Robert Caro’s biography of RM, The Power Broker. The book tells of how Moses specifically targeted immigrant communities and communities of color for destruction, bulldozing countless homes, businesses, schools, churches, landmarks, and more for his projects.

Washington Post is paywalling the article but it looks like Taylor Farms — a consumer bagged salad brand that also supplies produce to grocers and fast food chains like Taco Bell, Walmart, McDonald's, Chipotle, Burger King, KFC, and Meijer —may be at least one of the sources of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak.