Triple Cantilevers: Grinding to a Halt

This project explores how life exists now in Brooklyn Heights and how the neighborhood is bracing for lengthy repairs on a deteriorating highway and a cherished park that is stacked on top of the cantilevered highway. This is one of the most complicated highways project in America. Existing conditions are dense and the political approval process is complex. When the Department of Transportation proposed a "Promenade Highway" while it rebuilds the BQE, public outcry was so intense that Mayor De Blasio formed an Expert Panel to examine DOT's assumptions. This spiraled into a series of political, engineering and social challenges.