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#MapMondays - “The Arterial System” 1964, showing completed, under construction, in planning, and future highways. The proposed projects on this map that were never constructed include LoMex (Lower Manhattan Expressway), the Mid-Manhattan Expressway, the Bushwick Expressway, Interborough Parkway (Brooklyn), Prospect Expressway extension via Ocean Parkway, Sheridan extension, and the Shore Front Parkway on the Rockaway Peninsula. Many of these proposed routes were projects of Master Planner and Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority Chairman Robert Moses, who was pushed out of power four years later when the TBTA was merged into the Metropolitan Transit Authority and toll funds were diverted to save the city's ailing agencies including the subway. 🚗 Tap to purchase a copy of the map 🚙 #mapmonday #cartography #transitmap #nyc #brooklyn #rockaway #bushwick #oceanparkway #sheridanexpressway #robertmoses #powerbroker #shorefrontparkway #prospectparkway #brooklynqueensexpressway #brucknerexpressway #lomex #expressway #queens #bronx #urbanism (at Bushwick, Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Fn0DMHy_G/?igshid=12xe9ctgabiwk

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#MapMondays – Mid-Manhattan Expressway Can you imagine a 100-foot tall, 160-foot wide expressway going straight through Midtown? Or even crazier, going through the 7th floor of the Empire State Building, just so Robert Moses and his Long Island buddies could quickly get from Long Island to New Jersey without having to worry about seeing the local riff-raff or someone offering to clean their windows at a Midtown traffic light?!?! The above image shows a rendering of the Mid-Manhattan Expressway looking east, circa 1950. The tunnel would connect the newly completed Queens-Midtown Tunnel with the West Side Highway and under construction Lincoln Tunnel to New Jersey. The first plan for a cross-Midtown Expressway was in the form of three tunnels, one at 36th Street for eastbound traffic, one at 38th for westbound, and a third tube for local traffic along with an underground terminal for buses and taxis. In 1946 Robert Moses released a new plan for a 100-foot-tall elevated highway tunneling directly through the Empire State Building's 6th or 7th floor! By 1950 the federal government had agreed to pay for a 160-foot-wide elevated interstate expressway (designated i-495) that would result in tearing down all the buildings lining the south side of 30th Street. Moses would eventually pull his support for the project due to protests and focus on his Lower Manhattan Expressway, #LoMex. (at Midtown Manhathan) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0O5qvun_1x/?igshid=mk7fpvsri833

Great aerial view showing the transformed Lower East Side and route of the proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway in 1964, five years before the project was finally killed. The expressway would have connected the Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges to the Holland Tunnel with a ten lane highway, demolishing much of the SOHO and NOLITA neighborhoods we know today. #soho #nolita #lomex #robertmoses #delanceystreet #gompershouses #nycha #eastriverhouses #publichousing #mitchelllama #fdrdrive #lowermanhattan #lowereastside #eastvillage #stuytown #powerbroker #tribeca #noho #broomestreet #lesnyc #skyscraper #skyline #urbanism #nycurbanism (at Gompers Houses) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxQCgBGH_OI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1d9tnnnvgk7jy

Can you imagine a 100-foot tall, 160-foot wide expressway going straight through Midtown? Or even crazier, going through the 7th floor of the Empire State Building, just so Robert Moses and his Long Island buddies could quickly get from Long Island to New Jersey without having to worry about seeing the local riff raff or someone offering to wipe their windows at a Midtown traffic light?!?! The above image shows a rendering of the Mid Manhattan Expressway looking east, circa 1950. The tunnel would connect the newly completed Queens-Midtown Tunnel to the West Side Highway and under construction Lincoln Tunnel to New Jersey. The first plan for a cross-Midtown Expressway was in the form of three tunnels, one at 36th for eastbound traffic, one at 38th for westbound and a third tube for local traffic along with an underground terminal for buses and taxis. In 1946 Robert Moses released a new plan for a 100-foot-tall elevated highway tunneling directly through the Empire State Building's 6th or 7th floor! By 1950 the federal government had agreed to pay for a 160-foot-wide elevated interstate expressway (designated i-495) that would result in tearing down all the buildings lining the south side of 30th Street. Moses would eventually pull his support for the project due to protests and focus on #LoMex. (at Midtown manhattan)

Kye Christensen-Knowles at greengrassi, Corvi-Mora, hosting JTT, Lomex and Proyectos Ultravioleta as part of Condo. #condocomplex @_greengrassi @corvimora @jtt_nyc @lomex__ @proyectosultravioleta #greengrassi #corvimora #jtt #lomex #proyectosultravioleta #kyechristensenknowles (at greengrassi)

Tatsuo Ikeda at greengrassi, Corvi-Mora, hosting JTT, Lomex and Proyectos Ultravioleta as part of Condo. #condocomplex @_greengrassi @corvimora @jtt_nyc @lomex__ @proyectosultravioleta #greengrassi #corvimora #jtt #lomex #proyectosultravioleta #tatsuoikeda (at greengrassi)

More at http://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/2009/02/unbuilt-robert-moses-highway-maps/