Reconnecting Communities is a pool of just $1 billion over five years for projects across the entire country, but Levine hoped some of that funding could get the ball rolling by paying for design and engineering for the FDR revamp.
The Biden bucks previously funded a $2-million study of capping the Cross-Bronx Expressway. The beep wants Mayor Adams to apply for a federal Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods grant before the Sept. DOT, we’ll be off and running,” Levine told reporters at a press conference at the Seaport. we’re confident that if we can get the infusion of resources from U.S. “There’ll be many legal, environmental, obviously financial, jurisdictional questions that we’ll have to work through, but.
A newly revived dream of tearing down the FDR viaduct south of the Brooklyn Bridge and turning it into a waterfront bike and pedestrian oasis must overcome state and federal bureaucrats who have often been unwilling to remove awful urban highways.īorough President Mark Levine said on Wednesday that he hopes to get federal support for the ambitious plan to remove the underused section of elevated highway between the bridge and the Battery Park underpass, but realizes that he faces a long road to, well, tear down a road.
