Under It

With all the the new bike lanes being implemented all over Brooklyn, I still feel much safer walking.  Between oblivious drivers, drivers resentful of the new lane's existence, uninformed cyclists who don't understand proper operation of a bicycle in the urban setting, people who park their cars in them, oblivious pedestrians,  and joggers that utilize them, it shows how new much of urban America has to go to get acquainted to these new lanes.  Taken under the BQE in Williamsburg.

Brooklyn’s Many Layers

Looking over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn.  This photograph has large amounts of detail, its best if viewed large.

Beneath the BQE

 

The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway cuts a huge, noisy, antiquated, and congested swath through the boroughs the bare its name.  Seeing as I don’t drive it regularly, or even own a car for that matter, I have very little use for the aging infrastructure.  Well, with one exception, the photos I take of it.  These photos were taken on Park Avenue, under the BQE, in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn, and near the Navy Yard.

 

 

 

 

Hauling Ass

Taken under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, near the corner of Metropolitan and Union in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The Great Barrier Fence

The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway taken from the Red Hook area, looking toward Downtown Brooklyn. I-278 cuts a major swath through the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens; the Gowanus Expressway, south of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to the north. Like many six lane urban limited access highways, the impact of the neighborhoods it separates can be seen by just walking the span of the expressway.

Many of the neighborhoods that were adversely affected by the expressway are beginning to see a resurgence as Brooklyn has been experiencing gentrification. Redhook and the Clinton Hill / Navy Yard area are good examples of this.

Van Brunt Street in Red Hook...

About two blocks from the Navy Yard in Clinton Hill...

Urbanize Chaos

The autos win the day in this area of Brooklyn. Standing between Downtown Brooklyn, and Dumbo, this is where the Brooklyn--Queens Expressway meets the Manhattan Bridge. Pestrians: Put on your running shoes...