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    unbuilt section of I-78, the Lower Manhattan Expressway, would have connected the Holland Tunnel to the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges. Another unbuilt...
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  • Cross-Manhattan Expressway may refer to: Trans-Manhattan Expressway, part of I-95 The unbuilt Lower Manhattan Expressway The unbuilt Mid-Manhattan Expressway...
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    (South of Houston Street), sometimes written Soho, is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Since the 1970s, the neighborhood has been the location...
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    eventual cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have passed directly through the area of Manhattan that would later become known...
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    island through Manhattan's densest neighborhoods, namely the Mid-Manhattan Expressway across 34th Street and the Lower Manhattan Expressway through SoHo...
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    The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan at Canal Street with Downtown Brooklyn...
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    Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York, is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough of New York City. Lower...
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    New York City, of which another crosstown highway known as the Lower Manhattan Expressway (LOMEX) was part. Long Island lobbied to extend I-495 east over...
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    Connecticut Turnpike. The Trans-Manhattan Expressway also carries US Route 1. Approximately 280,000 vehicles traverse the expressway on a daily average basis...
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    Bridge over the Harlem River, where the Trans-Manhattan Expressway continues west across Upper Manhattan to the George Washington Bridge. While I-95 leaves...
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    in the Bronx, but sections of the planned route, including the Lower Manhattan Expressway, were canceled. In New York City, I-78 continues through the egress-only...
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  • two that would have been built through Midtown and Lower Manhattan. The Lower Manhattan Expressway was planned to carry Interstate 78 from its current...
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    successfully rallied groups to cancel the construction of the Lower Manhattan Expressway in New York City. Applying the same formula in Toronto, Jacobs...
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    from Holland Tunnel in Manhattan to NY 878 (Nassau Expressway) in Queens, before curving north to meet the Clearview Expressway. These plans were canceled...
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    Newark to Lower Manhattan. Opened in 1927. Queens-Midtown Tunnel (I-495) - Crosses underneath the East River, connecting the Long Island Expressway to Manhattan...
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    Bridge Apartments (category Washington Heights, Manhattan)
    Manhattan, New York. Built between 1961 and 1964, they are notable for rising from concrete platforms directly above the Trans-Manhattan Expressway on...
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    blocking the Lower Manhattan Expressway in New York City before moving to Canada in 1969. According to Jacobs, it was the construction of expressways into major...
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    the proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway and over the Williamsburg Bridge to Queens, where it would have followed the Bushwick Expressway past the southern...
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    build a Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have gone through Greenwich Village and what is now SoHo. This plan and the Mid-Manhattan Expressway both...
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    inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater and Rudolph's work on Lower Manhattan Expressway.: 3  Rudolph's design was "an A-frame with terraced floors and...
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    Holland Tunnel along the Lower Manhattan Expressway, Williamsburg Bridge and Bushwick Expressway to reach the Nassau Expressway at Cross Bay Boulevard....
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    the Gowanus Expressway by 1970. By 2000, an HOV lane was added to the eastbound Gowanus Expressway to serve traffic heading toward Manhattan. Over the years...
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  • killed the planned elevated Lower Manhattan Expressway. In 1963, he had an idea for expanding the Long Island Expressway capacity in Queens by adding...
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  • neighborhoods. However, the defeat in 1962 of Moses' planned Lower Manhattan Expressway by community activists led by Jane Jacobs was an indication that...
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  • votes unanimously to reject Robert Moses's proposal to build a Lower Manhattan Expressway which would have cut through from the Williamsburg Bridge to the...
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    construct the Lower Manhattan Expressway, a vast highway conceived by Robert Moses which would have obliterated much of Lower Manhattan's industrial loft...
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  • Spadina Expressway, had the proponents of urban secession not stopped it. Jacobs likewise took part in blocking the development of the Lower Manhattan Expressway...
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    southeast through New York City via the Lower Manhattan Expressway, Williamsburg Bridge and Bushwick Expressway, then east along what is now I-878 and...
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    Holland Tunnel (category National Historic Landmarks in Manhattan)
    vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River that connects Hudson Square and Lower Manhattan in New York City in the east to Jersey City, New Jersey in the west...
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  • Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel (category The Battery (Manhattan))
    1958, the I-478 route number was proposed for the Lower Manhattan Expressway branch along the Manhattan Bridge. This highway would have run between I-78...
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