Get used to the Gowanus!
23.05.12
The project’s designer said the changes would nevertheless bring the expressway into the 21st century.
“It’s still a long ways off,” said state Department of Transportation Project Manager Harold Fink. “But when the project is complete, driving on the Gowanus will be very smooth.”
That’s how master builder Robert Moses envisioned when converted an elevated train to a highway in 1941.
With the construction of his masterpiece, the Verrazano Bridge, the Gowanus, which was widened to six lanes in the 1960s, provided a southern link to Staten Island and New Jersey — but also divided Carroll Gardens from Red Hook, split Sunset Park in two, and displaced a swath of residents in Bay Ridge who lived along Seventh and Eighth avenues, where the approach to the bridge was built.
Source: BrooklynPapers.com