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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.

TOWN HALL MEETING

A SUCCESS!

Thank you again to everyone who came out to our Town Hall Meeting! There were some great discussions and some good questions were raised. You can find the Q&A from the meeting here.

If you missed out on the Town Hall, you can still ask to be on our mailing list. If you went to the meeting and would like us to present the Sheridan project at your church, community group, tenant association, or club

please let us know!

The Alliance Stands on the Sheridan!

On Wednesday, July 15 2009 at 5.30 pm, the Alliance took a group photo on the Sheridan Expressway. The photograph was a repeat of a photograph taken nine years ago, and showed that at rush hour, there is still little traffic on the Sheridan. The traffic on the Sheridan is also cars commuting from Manhattan to the North Bronx and Westchester, not trucks. These cars could use the Bronx River Parkway if the Sheridan were taken down.

• Read the Press Release
• From our friends at TSTC

NEW! Updated Fly Through of the Sheridan Expressway!

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:

• The SBRWA’s Community Plan for the Sheridan – the NYSDOT is evaluating a plan for Hunts Point that would open up 28 acres of land for affordable housing, businesses, and open space
• How SBRWA hired a consultant to review NYSDOT modeling and evaluate the traffic and economic impact. Read the reports here
• The progress of the Environmental Impact Statement
• 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 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 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!