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Event on July 28, 2010

A panel on reclaiming New York City's streets

Featuring Pratt Center's Joan Byron and NYC Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan

 

Pratt Center director of Sustainability and Environmental Justice Joan Byron will join leaders from other civic groups and agencies to present innovative projects to reclaim New York City's streets. Byron will be discussing the Sheridan Expressway site proposal, which would replace an underutilized highway with riverfront open space, affordable housing, commercial space and other resources.

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July 28, 2010 - 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Center for Architecture

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Sheridan at Crossroads

Media last updated July 20, 2010

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Local Traffic Would Worsen Without Sheridan, Study Shows

Media last updated July 14, 2010

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Tour the Sheridan Expressway Community Plan

News last updated July 13, 2010

As The New York Times reports, the community-generated proposal to replace the underutilized Sheridan Expressway with parks, affordable housing, commercial space and amenities is gaining momentum. 

Here's a video tour of the community-generated plan, as developed by the Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance with the support of the Pratt Center. Learn more about the project here. And see Times architecture critic Nicolai Ourossoff's appreciation of the Sheridan plan as one of the leading ideas for "Reinventing America's Cities." 

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Big Battle over short highway in Bronx

Media last updated December 9, 2009

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Greening the South Bronx

Page last updated April 16, 2009

Grassroots organizations in the South Bronx have made environmental justice a central part of their agenda for community revitalization. The Pratt Center has been there with them from the beginning, providing mapping, architecture and urban planning resources that have allowed neighborhood organizations to build a greener, healthier environment in neighborhoods that have carried more than their fair share of the city's polluting facilities. Sewage treatment plants, waste transfer stations, truck highways, wholesale markets, power plants, gas and oil depots—the South Bronx hosts essential infrastructure that allows the New York City region to function but that also leaves the surrounding neighborhoods with New York City's highest asthma rates and a diminished quality of life.

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