Editing Cross Bronx Expressway (section)

=== Urban decay ===
The Cross Bronx Expressway is blamed for worsening the decay of neighborhoods in the [[South Bronx]], such as [[Tremont, Bronx|Tremont]]. In [[Robert Caro]]'s ''[[The Power Broker]]'', the author argues that Moses intentionally directed the expressway through this neighborhood, even though there was a more viable option only one block south.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Robert Caro|last=Caro|first=Robert A.|title=[[The Power Broker|The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York]]|location=New York|publisher=Knopf|year=1974|isbn=0-394-48076-7}}</ref> The expressway's construction displaced many residents, who generally were not relocated to adequate housing.<ref>The Cross-Bronx Double Cross: How the cross-Bronx ... - Fordham University. (n.d.). Retrieved October 30, 2022, from https://research.library.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&context=amer_stud_theses {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112005626/https://research.library.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&context=amer_stud_theses |date=January 12, 2023 }}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported in 2022 that the areas near the Cross Bronx Expressway were among New York City's poorest neighborhoods; these areas contained 220,000 residents, most of which were ethnic minorities.<ref name="nyt-2022-09-12">{{Cite news |last=Ley |first=Ana |date=2022-09-12 |title=A Plan to Push Cars Out of Manhattan Could Make the Bronx's Air Dirtier |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/nyregion/nyc-congestion-pricing-manhattan-bronx.html |access-date=2022-10-31 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=October 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031134917/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/nyregion/nyc-congestion-pricing-manhattan-bronx.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:2024-05-21 12 50 39 View north along Interstate 95 and east along the Cross Bronx Expressway from the overpass for Crotona Avenue in the Bronx, New York City, New York.jpg|thumb|left|The eastbound Cross Bronx entering the tunnel in East Tremont, one of the most impoverished parts of New York City]]
Many of the neighborhoods it runs through have been continually poor since its construction, partly due to the lowered property value caused by the expressway.<ref name="nyt-2022-09-12" /> This is partially responsible for the public opposition to many other planned expressways in [[New York City]] that were later cancelled&nbsp;– in particular, the [[Lower Manhattan Expressway]],<ref>[[Ric Burns]], [[New York: A Documentary Film]], episode 7, The American Experience, PBS Television, WNET New York and WGBH Boston, 1999.</ref> and may have provided impetus to [[Jane Jacobs]], an American expatriate, in her opposition to the [[Scarborough Expressway]] in [[Toronto]]. Architect Ronald Shiffman argues that the Cross Bronx Expressway "ripped through the heart of the Bronx, creating what was a wall between what eventually was known as the Northern and Southern part of the Bronx."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090c4f8|title=Citizen Jane: Battle for the City - BBC Four|website=BBC|access-date=2017-10-15|archive-date=November 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105013956/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090c4f8|url-status=live}}</ref>