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The Belt Pkwy comes to an end, or is just beginning,
depending on your point of view. The elevated highway it's merging
with was actually the latecomer here. The original route built
in the 1940's was all parkway. The Gowanus section of todays
BQE, was just the northwestern tip of the Belt Parkway circumferential
system. We know today that the master builder behind these roads,
Robert Moses, intended to eventually convert the Gowanus into
a full fledged expressway, but it began life wrapped in the illusion
that it was a bucolic tree-soaked parkway, despite being a hideously
ugly, dark, noisy, disruptive and somewhat destructive neighbor
to the good denizens of the Sunset Park neighborhood. |
