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Posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Feb 14 15:03:37 2007, in response to Re: Set Your VCR, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Feb 14 08:07:56 2007. It is crazy that the Interboro ends nowhere. I didn't think that it was one of Moses' creations but I guess it was because it was built in 1933, designed like his other parkways. Connecting it with the Bushwick Expressway wouldn't have made any sense. Looks like it was supposed to connect with the Cross Brooklyn.Also, it was first proposed in 1901, (according to NYCRoads,com) but nothing happened until Moses got involved. (Further proof that many of the roads he built would never have been built without him.) I also found the following on NYCRoads. com "EXTENSION THROUGH SOUTHERN BROOKLYN: In 1963, Moses proposed a 3.4-mile-long southern extension of the Interborough Parkway through southeast Brooklyn. The $30 million extension, which was to be routed through the East New York, New Lots and Starrett City communities, was scheduled for completion in 1976. Most likely, a reconstructed Pennsylvania Avenue was to serve as the service roads for the parkway. However, as Moses lost his power in the late 1960's, the parkway extension was shelved. The route of the extended Jackie Robinson Parkway was to be about one-half mile east of the L subway (Canarsie BMT) corridor, which was to serve as the route of another proposed highway, the Queens-Interboro Expressway (unbuilt I-695)." |
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