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Welcome to 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 build a New Community in its place.

Fly through the New Community on the Sheridan!

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:

• New York State Department of Transportation’s proposal to expand the Bruckner-Sheridan Interchange
• How SBRWA hired a consultant to review NYSDOT modeling and evaluate the traffic and economic impact. Read the reports here
• 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 Statement that compares the Community Plan to NYSDOT’s proposals
• The community visioning process the SBRWA conducted, during which local stakeholders developed 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!

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:

Melanie Bin Jung

Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance

c/o Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice

1492 Commonwealth Ave.

Bronx, NY 10460

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