Welcome to SBRWA

Show your support for the campaign to replace the Sheridan Expressway with affordable housing, green space, and new economic development opportunities! Sign our Letter of Support and mail it to:

Philip Silva

Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance

c/o Sustainable South Bronx

890 Garrison Avenue, 4th Floor

Bronx, NY 10474

It will only take a minute, and it will have a huge impact. Make your voice heard!

Check out SheridanSwap, the source for the latest news on the campaign to decomission the Sheridan Expressway.

The Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance (SBRWA) is a coalition of four local and three citywide organizations 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, polluting industries that pollute our air, water, and soil. A highway-dominated planning mentality dating back to the 1950s left the South Bronx fragmented and isolated by a network of highways designed to serve regional and national needs, regardless of the costs they imposed on the low-income communities they passed through. Today, those communities are confronting the legacy of Robert Moses and struggling to forge a new vision that is grounded in values of environmental justice and sustainable development. That vision includes a healthy environment, a robust economy, an efficient transportation network, and a diverse community whose river is an ecological, economic, and social asset enjoyed by all. Welcome to the Southern Bronx River Watershed!

On our website, you can learn about:

• SBRWA hired a consultant to review NYSDOT modeling and evaluate the traffic and economic impact. Read the reports here
• New York State Department of Transportation’s proposal to expand the Bruckner-Sheridan Interchange
• The SBRWA’s Community Plan for the Sheridan – an alternative that solves the problems of safety, mobility, and access to Hunts Point, but preserves the Bronx River Waterfront and frees 28 acres of land for new uses
• The progress of the Environmental Impact Study that compares the Community Plan to NYSDOT’s proposals
• The community visioning process the SBRWA is conducting, in which local stakeholders are developing a plan for the re-use of the land now occupied by the Sheridan
• The Southern Bronx River watershed communities of Hunts Point, Longwood, Bronx River, and Soundview, and their struggles for environmental and economic justice
• The SBRWA’s member organizations and their work
• How you can get involved!