Welcome to the SBRWA
The Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance (SBRWA) is a collaboration of community-based organizations and larger city-wide organizations whose mission is to take down the Sheridan Expressway and to build housing, open space, businesses, and jobs
in its place.
Sheridan Expressway featured on PBS Special!
Blueprint America: Road to the Future
Wednesday, 05.20.2009 at 8.00 pm on Channel 13
Miles O'Brien, former aviation and science correspondent for CNN, hosts this documentary about innovative infrastructure projects being discussed and created in Portland, Denver and New York City. …[C]ities that once built infrastructure to serve only automobiles and trucks are now looking to innovative new forms of transportation systems - like trolleys, light rail, pedestrian walkways and bike paths. Whether it is talking to residents pushing sustainable development in the Bronx, smart growth in Denver, or a journalist in Portland whose beat is bicycling, Blueprint America finds a common theme: America’s love affair with the car may be a thing of the past.
The Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance and its vision to turn the Sheridan Expressway into 28 acres of open space, affordable housing, businesses, and jobs is highlighted in this PBS special on the future of infrastructure in America! Show your support by watching the show, and check out the additional airdates in case you miss it:
Additional Airdates:
Friday, 05.22.09 at 1.00 am on Channel 13
Sunday, 05.24.09 at 7.00 pm on WLIW World
Monday, 05.25.09 at 7.00 pm on WLIW World
Monday, 05.25.09 at 2.00 am on WLIW21
Wednesday, 05.27.09 at 5.00 am on WLIW21
See what the Sheridan land would look like in our Community Plan.
Click to find more images and info.
 SBRWA is committed to envisioning and realizing a new future of the communities along the southern reaches of the Bronx River. Our neighborhoods are saturated with junkyards, waste transfer stations, brownfields, and truck-dependent wholesale markets that pollute our air, water, and soil. In the 1950s, Robert Moses built five major national highways in the Bronx without any thought to the people who lived there. As a result, for decades the Bronx has been a place that people drive through to get somewhere else. This legacy of economic and environmental injustice is what the Bronx has inherited, and our vision is to re-create the healthy environment, robust economy, efficient transportation network, and diverse community that used to exist here; all based around the Bronx River which is an ecological, economic, and social asset that should be enjoyed by all. Welcome to the Southern Bronx River Watershed!
DId you ever think you could sit on a highway
during rush hour? You can on the Sheridan!
Please use the above and left-hand tabs to navigate our website, and be sure to check our blog, Sheridan Swap, for the latest Sheridan Campaign news!
On our website, you can learn about:
Show your support for the campaign to replace the Sheridan Expressway with affordable housing, green space, and new economic development opportunities! Sign the petition which supports the community-endorsed Alternative 1E!
It will only take a minute, and it will have a huge impact. Make your voice heard!
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