Editing Cross Bronx Expressway (section)

{{Short description|Highway in New York City}}
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{{Infobox road
|state=NY
|type=
|marker_image=
|name=Cross Bronx Expressway
|map=Cross Bronx Expressway Map.svg
|map_alt=Map of Cross Bronx Expressway
|map_notes=Map of the Bronx in New York City with Cross Bronx Expressway highlighted in red
|length_mi=6.83
|established=1955<ref name="nyt-1955-11-06" />
|allocation={{jct|state=NY|I|95}} from [[Morris Heights, Bronx|Morris Heights]] to [[Throggs Neck]]<br />{{jct|state=NY|I|295}} in Throggs Neck
|direction_a=West
|terminus_a={{jct|state=NY|I|87|I|95|US|1}} in [[Morris Heights, Bronx|Morris Heights]]
|junction={{jct|state=NY|US|1}} in [[Tremont, Bronx|Tremont]]<br />{{jct|state=NY|Parkway|Bronx River NYC}} in [[Soundview, Bronx|Soundview]]<br />{{jct|state=NY|I|95|I|278|I|678}} in [[Throggs Neck, Bronx|Throggs Neck]]
|direction_b=East
|terminus_b={{jct|state=NY|I-Toll|295}} in Throggs Neck
}}
The '''Cross Bronx Expressway''' is a major [[controlled-access highway|freeway]] in the [[New York City]] borough of [[the Bronx]]. It is mainly designated as part of [[Interstate 95 in New York|Interstate&nbsp;95]] (I-95), but also includes portions of [[Interstate 295 (New York)|I-295]] and [[U.S. Route 1 in New York|U.S. Route&nbsp;1]] (US&nbsp;1). The Cross Bronx begins at the eastern approach to the [[Alexander Hamilton Bridge]] over the [[Harlem River]]. While I-95 leaves at the [[Bruckner Interchange]] in [[Throgs Neck, Bronx|Throgs Neck]], following the [[Bruckner Expressway]] and [[New England Thruway]] to [[Connecticut]], the Cross Bronx Expressway continues east, carrying I-295 to the merge with the [[Throgs Neck Expressway]] near the [[Throgs Neck Bridge]]. Though the road goes primarily northwest-to-southeast, the nominal directions of all route numbers west of the Bruckner Interchange are aligned with the northbound route number going southeast, and the southbound route number going northwest.

The Cross Bronx Expressway was conceived by [[Robert Moses]] and built between 1948 and 1972. It was the first highway built through a crowded urban environment in the [[United States]]; the most expensive mile of road ever built to that point is part of the Cross Bronx, costing $40 million ({{Inflation|US|40000000|1955|fmt=eq}}). At one point during construction, Moses' crews had to support the [[Grand Concourse (Bronx)|Grand Concourse]] (a major surface thoroughfare), a [[New York City Subway|subway]] line{{efn|The [[IND Concourse Line]]}} and several [[elevated train]] lines{{efn|The [[IRT Pelham Line]] at [[Westchester Avenue]]; the [[IRT White Plains Road Line]] at [[Boston Road (Bronx)|Boston Road]]; the [[IRT Third Avenue Line]] at [[Third Avenue]]; and the [[IRT Jerome Avenue Line]] at [[Jerome Avenue]]}} while the expressway was laboriously pushed through. The highway experiences severe traffic problems, and its construction has been blamed for negatively affecting a number of low-income neighborhoods in the [[South Bronx]]. Most Bronxites consider the Cross Bronx Expressway the defining border between the North and the South Bronx.<ref>Berman, Marshall. "All That is Solid Melts Into Air." New York: Penguin: 1988</ref>