New York City is advancing a plan to rehabilitate a deteriorating 1.5-mile stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that includes a historic “triple cantilever.” City officials unveiled preliminary design concepts for a rebuild of the highway Dec. 13 with the aim of beginning a federal environmental review process in the spring of 2023.
The design concepts are broken into three main categories: “the stoop,” “the terraces” and “the lookout.” Each category offers different options for dividing lanes, stacking the highway and screening them from the surrounding neighborhood with open spaces. City officials worked with a joint venture team of Bjarke Ingels Group, Parsons Corp., SCAPE Landscape Architecture and WXY to develop the concepts.