Hamilton Ave in Red Hook, before and after the construction of the Gowanus Expressway and BQE in the 1940s-50sunndunn t1_j659qx0 wrote
Reply to comment by cdavidg4 in Hamilton Ave in Red Hook, before and after the construction of the Gowanus Expressway and BQE in the 1940s-50s by TheSandPeople
It happens all the time for infrastructure projects. You people bitch about houses being removed for a highway, but you’d probably sing a much different tune if the same houses were to be removed for a train line, calling those homeowners NIMBYs for blocking progress. So spare me the fake sympathy for the people who lost their homes.
cdavidg4 t1_j65c7we wrote
Please name a recent infrastructure project that bulldozed block and blocks of buildings other than highways.
And for transit, the city can't even build an elevated train line NEXT to houses without people freaking out. Not even bulldozing them. As was the case with extending the N to LaGuardia.
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