Sheridan FAQs

The Community Plan sounds interesting, but who ever heard of tearing down a highway?
The community’s alternative plan is not unprecedented. Highway removal projects have succeeded in San Francisco and in Portland. Milwaukee, Toronto and Akron are in the process of tearing down elevated highways. These projects have been created major economic and environmental benefits, and any traffic issues have been successfully mitigated. 

Won’t traffic get worse if you tear a highway down?
In other cities where highways have been removed, the overall volume of traffic has usually decreased. And the Community Plan is designed specifically to deal with what are now the worst traffic bottlenecks, by providing direct access to Hunts Point from the Bruckner Expressway, so trucks will no longer have to travel on local streets. 

If the Sheridan is removed, what would happen to the land that it now occupies?
The SBRWA will be conducting a community visioning process to get ideas about how the land could be re-used. Having 28 acres of land along the Bronx River is an exciting opportunity to meet pressing needs for open space, affordable housing, etc. If you are interested is participating in the visioning process, click here.

When will there be a decision about what to do with the Sheridan?
NYSDOT expects to release the DEIS in mid-2006. Between now and then, NYSDOT will hold additional meetings that are open to the public, where you can get information about the EIS and ask questions. If you want us to notify you of these meetings, click here.

I’m interested, and I’d like to know more about the Community Plan for the Sheridan, what do I do?
We can contact you to let you know about upcoming events and new developments concerning the Sheridan.

Or you can contact us at: 

sbrwa@southbronxvision.org

Menaka Mohan
Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance Coordinator
c/o Sustainable South Bronx
890 Garrison Avenue, 4th Floor
Bronx, NY 10472
Phone: (718) 617-4668