Gowanus Expressway
Highway (elevated expressway) in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York City, USA. Part of Sunset Park.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakneck | Dan Wang | turning point | In Caro’s The Power Broker, Sunset Park is an irredeemable slum whose heart is torn out when Moses’s expressway drives away Finnish eateries and Norwegian shops. |
Breakneck — Dan Wang (2025)
Source: Breakneck · Readwise highlight
Moses had barely taken a glance at the neighborhood before he thrust an elevated expressway above its busiest commercial street.
- Role: turning point
- In the book: In Caro’s The Power Broker, Sunset Park is an irredeemable slum whose heart is torn out when Moses’s expressway drives away Finnish eateries and Norwegian shops. Wang observes the expressway still stands while the neighborhood, now Spanish-, Cantonese- and Mandarin-speaking, has endured.
- Why it matters: It is the test case for whether Moses’s destruction was fatal; Wang uses the neighborhood’s survival to argue critics overstated the damage.