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Brooklyn BQE Gets $4B Overhaul | New York City News
Mayor Zohran Mamdani just unveiled a $4 billion plan to overhaul the aging Brooklyn-Queens Expressway from Atlantic Avenue to Sands Street — the crumbling waterfront stretch built in 1954 that’s now handling 130K cars a day. The project will repair concrete, cantilevers, drainage, railings, and lighting while building temporary bypasses to keep traffic flowing — one along Furman Street, another elevated toward the Manhattan Bridge. Construction won’t start until 2030, but this is the city’s first major step toward stabilizing a decades-old infrastructure crisis, with environmental review…
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