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In the Shadow of the Highway: Robert Moses’ Expressway and the Battle for Downtown
The exhibit runs through February 2016 at the NYC Department of Records Visitor Center, 31 Chambers Street. The Lower Manhattan Expressway (LOMEX) was first proposed in 1929 as a small part of a plan to build highways throughout the region, then included in a 1941 National Defense proposal drafted by Robert Moses. This 10-lane expressway would have cut across the heart of Lower Manhattan and stretched from the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges to the Holland Tunnel, rising over Broome Street. In 1962, the NYC Board of Estimate decided not to relocate neighborhood residents to build LOMEX. The expressway was ultimately de-mapped in 1969 due to activism and advocacy on the part of neighborhood residents – including Jane . From the short video on Robert Moses 
The NYC Department of Records and Information Services’ Municipal Archives in collaboration with Below the Grid Lab and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. There a wheel-chair accessible entrance on Reade Street between Elk and Centre Streets. |
