All the Wire's a Mundane Stage

Looking up at a view of the elevated Gowanus Expressway that only Robert Moses could love. Taken from Red Hook, Brooklyn...

Gowanus Express

The Gowanus Expressway (a section of I-278) cuts through the neighborhoods of Red Hook, Gowanus, Park Slope, South Brooklyn, et al. It serves as a major vehicular artery through the Borough of Brooklyn, providing several commuter connections; for example, from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. As it cuts through Brooklyn, it delivers the typical fare to the table of its urban neighborhoods; in the form of noise, pollution, destruction of human scale design, and their isolation from nearby neighborhoods. For better or worse and although he didn't get the Brooklyn-Battery Bridge he wanted, the legacy of Robert Moses is still alive and well in NYC...