BQE 2053: Building a sustainable, visionary Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
Will Harry Chapin Park be destroyed?
Is New York missing the opportunity of a lifetime to radically reimagine the crumbling, polluting and divisive Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE)?
That was one cautionary take-away from the Institute for Public Architecture’s (IPA) full-day symposium, BQE 2053, at Urban Assembly New York Harbor School on Governors Island on Saturday, May 20.
Another take-away was that a visionary highway redesign could still be possible — if the city and state would jointly commit to joining the ranks of other first-class cities, like Paris, Seoul and Seattle, which have drastically redesigned their aging transportation infrastructure.