For 10 years, South Bronx residents have been fighting to get
the state to tear down an old expressway so that a greener and
more sustainable mixed-use neighborhood can take its place. The
community's vision fits nicely with the goals of the city's
long-term sustainability plan, PlaNYC2030. But will the city
embrace this precocious community-based effort? The Highway to
Nowhere South Bronx residents have fought for a decade to cast
off the shadow of Robert Moses' Sheridan expressway -- a
1.25-mile, little-used stretch of highway locally known as "the
highway to nowhere." In its place they aim to build more than
1,000 sustainable and affordable apartments, greenways, parks,
resident services and progressive businesses that will offer
living-wage, long-term jobs to Bronx residents in the city's
burgeoning "green industry" to Bronx residents. One of Moses'
few projects that never reached full fruition, the Sheridan
Expressway carries an average of 37,000 cars a day (to compare,
on any given day, approximately fi