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Kissena Corridor Park and the adjacent Kissena Park are named after Kissena Lake located in Kissena Park. The word "Kissena" is from the Chippewa language meaning "it is cold", "cold place", or "cool water".{{cite web |title=Kissena Park |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/kissena-park/highlights/7922 |publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation |access-date=June 2, 2018}}{{cite news |title=Kissena Lake Received Its Name By Being Cold |access-date=June 2, 2018 |work=North Shore Daily Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=March 5, 1934 |page=12|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%25201934%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%25201934%252002081.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff853bcbe8%26DocId%3D5328142%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D8%26hits%3D90d%2B90e%2B90f%2B910%2B911%2B912%2B913%2B914%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%25201934%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%25201934%252002081.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff853bcbe8%26DocId%3D5328142%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D8%26hits%3D90d%2B90e%2B90f%2B910%2B911%2B912%2B913%2B914%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false}}{{cite news |last1=Shaman |first1=Diana |title=If You're Thinking of Living In/Kissena Park, Queens; Near Flushing's Bustle, a Quiet Enclave |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/05/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-living-kissena-park-queens-near-flushing-s-bustle-quiet.html |access-date=June 2, 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=March 5, 2000}}{{cite book|author=Evan T. Pritchard|title=Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c5hky9f5PgoC&pg=PA333|access-date=June 2, 2018|year=2002|publisher=Council Oak Books|isbn=978-1-57178-107-9|page=333}} The Chippewa (Ojibwe) Native Americans are not native to the New York area, but rather to the Midwestern United States. However, the New York area was inhabited by the "Canarsee" and "Rockaway" Lenape groups, who are Algonquian peoples along with the Chippewa.{{cite web|title=STAGE 1A ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT; SHEA STADIDM REDEVELOPMENT FLUSHING MEADOWS - CORONA PARK|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/arch_reports/594.pdf|website=nyc.gov|publisher=Historical Perspectives, Inc.|date=October 2001}}{{rp|5}}{{rp|2}}{{cite web|author1=Natural Resources Group|title=Natural Area Mapping and Inventory of Spring Creek 1988 Survey|url=http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/parks_divisions/nrg/documents/Ecological_Assessment_Spring_Creek.pdf|publisher=New York City Parks Department|access-date=November 18, 2015|page=2}}{{cite enc-nyc|page=462}} The name was given to the lake by horticulturalist Samuel Bowne Parsons (father of Samuel Parsons Jr.), who operated nursery near the lake in the late 1800s. The parks share the name with Kissena Boulevard which runs north-to-south between the two parks, and Kissena Creek which formerly ran through the parks. The area of Flushing surrounding the two parks is also informally known as "Kissena Park".{{cite news |last1=Mooney |first1=Jake |title=Flushing's Very Own Time Capsule |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/realestate/kissena-park-queens-living-in-flushing-has-its-very-own-time-capsule.html |access-date=June 6, 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=February 10, 2012}}{{cite book|author=James Driscoll|title=Flushing: 1880-1935|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KHCVPpUnkJUC&pg=PA101|access-date=5 July 2018|year=2005|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-3842-6|pages=18, 101–110}}

File:1873 Beers Map of Flushing and College Point, Queens, New York - Geographicus - Kissena Creek & Central RR 2A.jpg (blue) and the Central Railroad.]]

• Glaciation{{cite web |last1=Feller |first1=Michael |title=Kissena Park: The Wild Side; A Guide to its Natural Areas |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/parks_divisions/nrg/documents/NRG_Publication_Kissena_Park_The_Wild_Side_A_Guide_to_its_Natural_Areas.pdf |publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Natural Resources Group |access-date=June 2, 2018 |date=December 1988}}
• The topography of Flushing and Northeast Queens was formed during this time, including the creation of Kissena Lake. Glaciation also created a natural source of well water for the area.{{cite news |title=Kissena Lake Site for Proposed Park; Valuable Source of Pure Water Supply That Should Be Secured by City |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/53413970/?terms=%22Kissena+Park%22+%22kissena+lake%22 |access-date=7 July 2018 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |agency=Newspapers.com |date=May 15, 1904 |location=Flushing, Queens |page=46}}
• Kissena Creek

Prior to modern development, a stream called Kissena Creek, previously known as Mill Creek or Ireland Mill Creek, ran east-to-west through what are now Kissena Park and Kissena Corridor Park.{{rp|97−101}} The creek began at a swamp in the modern Kew Gardens Hills / Pomonok area. The swamp was variously known as "Peat Bog Swamp, "Old Crow Swamp", "Doughty Swamp", and "Gutman’s Swamp".{{cite news |title=Start Drainage of 'Old Crow Swamp,' 3rd Ward Menace |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252015%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Star%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Star%25201918%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Star%25201918%2520-%25201046.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Db87418%26DocId%3D12122665%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D95e%2B95f%2B960%2B9d1%2B9d2%2B9d3%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252015%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Star%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Star%25201918%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Star%25201918%2520-%25201046.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Db87418%26DocId%3D12122665%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D95e%2B95f%2B960%2B9d1%2B9d2%2B9d3%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=7 July 2018 |work=Brooklyn Daily Star |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=June 14, 1918 |page=2}} The {{convert|140|acre|ha|adj=on}} swamp was bound by Vleigh Place near Main Street to its west, and Kissena Boulevard and Parsons Boulevard to the east.{{cite news |last1=Kadinsky |first1=Sergey |title=Likely Namesake Of KGH's Aguilar Avenue? An English Jewish Poetess |url=http://www.queensjewishlink.com/featured-stories/likely-namesake-kghs-aguilar-avenue-english-jewish-poetess/ |access-date=6 July 2018 |work=Queens Jewish Link |date=January 3, 2018}} When Parsons and Kissena Boulevards were laid out as the combined "Jamaica and Flushing Road",{{cite book|title=La Guardia International Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Airport Access Program, Automated Guideway Transit System (NY, NJ): Environmental Impact Statement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ruI0AQAAMAAJ&pg=SA1-PA6|access-date=July 23, 2016|date=June 1994|publisher=Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, United States Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, New York State Department of Transportation}} the route curved around the north edge of the swamp; this curve is now Aguilar Avenue. The curve was later known as "Dead Man's Bend" due to frequent accidents, until a bypass was made by extending Kissena Boulevard east to Parsons.{{cite news |title=Roadway Hazard To Be Eliminated: Kink in Jamaica Line to Be Straightened |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%25201938%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%25201938%252002003_1.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffb2b1df57%26DocId%3D5344231%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D580%2B581%2B582%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%25201938%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%25201938%252002003_1.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffb2b1df57%26DocId%3D5344231%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D580%2B581%2B582%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=6 July 2018 |work=North Shore Daily Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=June 24, 1938 |page=5}}

Past the swamp, the creek traveled east parallel to 72nd Avenue.{{cite news |last1=Herbert |first1=Lionel |title=200-Year-Old Flushing-Hillcrest House Links Motor Age With Colonial Days |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252023%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Greenpoint%2520Daily%2520Star%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Greenpoint%2520Daily%2520Star%25201933%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Greenpoint%2520Daily%2520Star%25201933%2520-%25201300.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5683fc7d%26DocId%3D3670778%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520S%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3Def8%2Bef9%2Befa%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252023%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Greenpoint%2520Daily%2520Star%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Greenpoint%2520Daily%2520Star%25201933%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Greenpoint%2520Daily%2520Star%25201933%2520-%25201300.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5683fc7d%26DocId%3D3670778%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520S%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3Def8%2Bef9%2Befa%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=7 July 2018 |work=Greenpoint Daily Star |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=April 13, 1933 |page=18}} It turned north in modern Fresh Meadows, traveling parallel to today's Utopia Parkway to the modern Kissena Park Golf Course just south of Flushing Cemetery.{{rp|96−101}} The creek then turned west through the modern Kissena Park, Kissena Corridor Park, and Queens Botanical Garden sites before meeting Flushing Creek at what is now the Fountain of Planets / Pool of Industry in Flushing Meadows.{{cite book|author=Sergey Kadinsky|title=Hidden Waters of New York City: A History and Guide to 101 Forgotten Lakes, Ponds, Creeks, and Streams in the Five Boroughs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Czw1CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT102|date=March 7, 2016|publisher=Countryman Press|isbn=978-1-58157-566-8}}{{rp|96−101}}

The system included several lakes, including Kissena Lake, and a pond in Fresh Meadows now occupied by the Utopia Playground. As recently as the 1900s, both Kissena Lake and Gutman's Swamp served as a habitat for wood duck.{{cite journal |title=Game Bag and Gun; Why Not Breed Our Own Wild Ducks. |journal=Forest and Stream |date=March 28, 1908 |volume=70 |issue=13 |page=494 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pbwo1phf26AC&pg=PA494 |access-date=9 July 2018}} Kissena Lake was initially used as a mill pond.{{cite book|author=Daniel Carter Beard|title=The American boys' book of bugs, butterflies and beetles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oZApAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA289|access-date=9 July 2018|year=1915|publisher=Lippincott|pages=289–293}} Just east of the lake was a water pumping station. It was used first by the College Point Water Works, then by the Citizens Water Supply Company of Newtown, and finally as a city-owned pumping station.{{cite book|author1=New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity|author2=Delos Franklin Wilcox|author3=Citizens Water Supply Co. of Newtown|title=Report of Delos F. Wilcox, duputy commissioner: to the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity : in relation to the Citizens Water Supply Company of Newtown : October 7, 1916|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SbMvAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA7|access-date=9 July 2018|year=1916|pages=171–174, 219–220, 323}}

The first settlers of the area were (nomadic) Algonquian Native Americans, who occupied the area from Flushing Meadows east to Little Neck Bay and Alley Creek.{{cite news |title=Flushing Residents Soon Will Celebrate 100th Anniversary of Village |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201937%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201937%2520-%25206025.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dfffffffffc8e5409%26DocId%3D4839760%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D29%26hits%3Dfc%2B117%2Bada%2Bf4e%2Bf6a%2Bf83%2Bfa7%2Bfbb%2B113f%2B1182%2B11f2%2B1209%2B1227%2B124f%2B14c2%2B14f3%2B1516%2B15cf%2B1611%2B1627%2B1674%2B16ea%2B16f7%2B1756%2B17d1%2B17e8%2B180d%2B180e%2B1847%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201937%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201937%2520-%25206025.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dfffffffffc8e5409%26DocId%3D4839760%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D29%26hits%3Dfc%2B117%2Bada%2Bf4e%2Bf6a%2Bf83%2Bfa7%2Bfbb%2B113f%2B1182%2B11f2%2B1209%2B1227%2B124f%2B14c2%2B14f3%2B1516%2B15cf%2B1611%2B1627%2B1674%2B16ea%2B16f7%2B1756%2B17d1%2B17e8%2B180d%2B180e%2B1847%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=22 July 2018 |work=Long Island Daily Press |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=September 19, 1937 |page=2}} They set up a village at modern Fowler Avenue near Lawrence Street on the eastern banks of Flushing Creek. Shortly after the purchase of Manhattan island by the Dutch, in 1628 Dutch explorers surveyed Flushing Bay and the Flushing Meadows area.

File:Kissena Bl Rose Av td 15 - Stewart RR.jpg crossed modern Kissena Corridor Park (background) and Kissena Park (foreground) at Kissena Boulevard, where the Kissena station was located.]]

In 1869, Irish businessman Alexander Turney Stewart began planning a railroad line which would run from the Town of Hempstead (now Nassau County, Long Island) west through Queens to Flushing. It would then merge with the Flushing and North Side Railroad towards Long Island City where ferry service was available to Manhattan. Stewart created the rail line in order to grow his Garden City development in Long Island.{{Cite book|title =The Long Island Rail Road: The Flushing, North Side, and Central Railroad|author=Seyfried, Vincent F.|publisher =|year =1963|isbn =|location =|pages =|url =http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/vital/access/services/Download/aql:336/SOURCE1?view=true|url-status =dead|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20150419021129/http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/vital/access/services/Download/aql%3A336/SOURCE1?view=true|archive-date =April 19, 2015}}{{rp|81−87, 104}} His line, officially the Central Railroad of Long Island and also called the Stewart Railroad, branched off from the Flushing and North Side Railroad main line (now the LIRR Port Washington Branch) just east of Flushing Creek and the modern Mets–Willets Point station. It then ran east south of Downtown Flushing through today's Kissena Corridor Park and Kissena Park, turned southeast through Cunningham Park and Alley Pond Park to the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center (at the time occupied by the Creedmoor Rifle Range), then proceeded east towards Nassau County. The line was almost entirely grade separated, including tunnels at its crossings with Lawrence Street (College Point Boulevard) and Fresh Meadow Road (Utopia Parkway), and two iron bridges across Kissena Creek along with twenty culverts for the creek.{{rp|86−89, 111}}{{cite news |last1=Cobaugh |first1=Robert |title=We Once Had Good Railroad Service |url=http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2024/Bayside%20NY%20Times/Bayside%20NY%20Times%201969-1970/Bayside%20NY%20Times%201969-1970%2000262_2.pdf|access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Bayside Times |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=August 14, 1969 |page=1}}{{cite news |last1=Cobaugh |first1=Robert |title=We Once Had Good Railroad Service |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%25201969-1970%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%25201969-1970%252000265_2.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa51847a8%26DocId%3D5776754%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D261%2B262%2B263%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%25201969-1970%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%25201969-1970%252000265_2.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa51847a8%26DocId%3D5776754%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D261%2B262%2B263%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Bayside Times |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=August 14, 1969 |page=7}} The railroad route ran parallel to the north of the modern Peck Avenue, which runs through the center of the current western Kissena Corridor, and marks the south side of the eastern Kissena Corridor.{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Kevin |title=BELLEROSE and HOLLIS HILLS, Queens |url=http://forgotten-ny.com/2011/05/bellerose-and-hollis-hills-queens/ |publisher=Forgotten New York |access-date=June 1, 2018 |date=May 8, 2011}}

The line began operations in January 1873.{{rp|93}}{{cite news |title=Stewart Railroad Proposition Being Revived in Queens; Will Open for Development Virgin Territory From Flushing to Floral Park; Cheap Industrial Sites |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/55301147/?terms=%22stewart+railroad%22 |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |agency=Newspapers.com |date=June 30, 1918 |page=59}} It included a station at Main Street called "Hillside", a station at Kissena Boulevard and Peck Avenue called "Kissena" or "Kissena Park", and a station at 73rd Avenue in modern Cunningham Park called "Frankiston".{{rp|147}} Stewart's Central Railroad and the Flushing and North Side Railroad were consolidated to form the Flushing, North Shore and Central Railroad in 1874, and in 1876 the owner of the railroad Conrad Poppenhusen purchased a majority share in the rival Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) which united the two systems.{{rp|99, 119−125}} The Central Railroad, however, failed to profit, with low patronage particularly from Garden City which had yet to develop as planned.{{rp|130−132}} Due to the financial woes on the line and the Long Island Rail Road system as a whole, in October 1877 the LIRR was placed in receivership. The Central Railroad was closed in 1879, and {{convert|5|mi|km}} of rails were removed from the right-of-way. The Nassau County portion of the line became the Hempstead Branch, connected to the LIRR Main Line. In Queens, only a connection between the Creedmoor station and the Floral Park station remained in operation; this became the LIRR Creedmoor Branch.{{rp|130−136}}{{cite news |title=Advantages Claimed by Queensborough: New City Territory Which Boasts Nearly All the Improvements of Older Sections; A Great Future Predicted; Details Concerning Cost of Lots and Chief inducements in the Various Localities |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50420583/?terms=surveying+the+Old+Stewart+Railroad+That+Used+to+Run+From+Flushing+to+Garden+City |access-date=June 1, 2018 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |agency=Newspapers.com |date=April 16, 1899 |page=18}} Following its closure, several proposals emerged to reactivate the line or reuse the right-of-way.{{rp|139−141}}{{cite news |title=News of Queens Borough: Old Road Resurveyed |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50340456/?terms=surveying+the+Old+Stewart+Railroad+That+Used+to+Run+From+Flushing+to+Garden+City |access-date=June 1, 2018 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |agency=Newspapers.com |date=October 24, 1898 |page=4}} This included a potential streetcar line between Flushing and Jamaica, and a proposed "Creedmoor Freeway" to be built along the rail line and the former Long Island Motor Parkway.{{cite news |title=Regional Planners List New Projects |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/52683723/?terms=%22stewart+railroad%22 |access-date=June 1, 2018 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |agency=Newspapers.com |date=October 16, 1942 |page=9}}{{cite news |title=Regional Plan Report Urges Vital Projects: 4-Year Program, to Cost $340,604,000, Is Outlined for Greater City |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/52672797/?terms=%22stewart+railroad%22 |access-date=June 1, 2018 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |agency=Newspapers.com |date=December 4, 1937 |page=1, 3}} None of these plans, however, came to frution.{{rp|139−141}}

Shortly after the consolidation of the five boroughs of New York City in 1898, city chief topographical engineer Louis Aloys Risse produced the General Map of the City of New York to be presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition. The map proposed the development of city parks at the modern locations of Kissena Park, Cunningham Park, and Alley Pond Park. It also included a linear park, which would run north-to-south connecting Alley Pond Park with a proposed park at Hillside Avenue in Queens Village.{{cite web |last1=Risse |first1=Louis A. |title=General Map of the City of New York: Boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Richmond |url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-6f6e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99#/?uuid=510d47e2-6f71-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 |publisher=New York City Board of Public Improvements, Topographical Bureau |access-date=June 2, 2018 |date=January 1, 1900}}{{cite news |title=Virgin Forest In City Available for New PArk |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252011%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Times%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Times%25201923%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Times%25201923%2520a%2520-%25205496.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dfffffffff47cc4af%26DocId%3D6662776%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D9%26hits%3D17%2B45%2Bbb%2B119%2B14e%2B177%2B354%2B47a%2B47b%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252011%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Times%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Times%25201923%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Times%25201923%2520a%2520-%25205496.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dfffffffff47cc4af%26DocId%3D6662776%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D9%26hits%3D17%2B45%2Bbb%2B119%2B14e%2B177%2B354%2B47a%2B47b%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=June 2, 2018 |work=The New York Times |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=May 6, 1923 |page=13}} Risse would later design the Grand Concourse in the Bronx.{{cite web |url=https://www.norwoodnews.org/id=27417&story=a-history-sign-for-the-namesake-behind-risse-street-park/}}{{cite web |url=https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/looking-back-at-the-grand-concourses-first-century/}}{{cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/lpc/downloads/pdf/walking-tours/LPC_WalkingTour_Grand_Concourse.pdf}}

The land was acquired for Kissena Park (then called Kissena Lake Park) between 1904 and 1914.{{cite web|title=Kissena Park: History|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/kissena-park/highlights/7922|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|access-date=July 8, 2018}}{{cite news |title=Flushing Creek Bridge to Open: Big Celebration Planned for Tomorrow, When New $400,000 Span Is Commissioned; To Commemorate City' Gaining Kissena Park; Seventy-Five Acre Tract, Including Lake, Acquired and Prominent Officials Will Dedicate It. |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%25206%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Telegram%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Telegram%25201906%2520Oct%2520-%2520Nov%2520Grayscale%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Telegram%25201906%2520Oct%2520-%2520Nov%2520Grayscale%2520-%25200264.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D7c720ba1%26DocId%3D11781088%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26HitCount%3D7%26hits%3D34f%2B62d%2B83b%2B83c%2B84b%2B93a%2B945%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%25206%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Telegram%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Telegram%25201906%2520Oct%2520-%2520Nov%2520Grayscale%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Telegram%25201906%2520Oct%2520-%2520Nov%2520Grayscale%2520-%25200264.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D7c720ba1%26DocId%3D11781088%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26HitCount%3D7%26hits%3D34f%2B62d%2B83b%2B83c%2B84b%2B93a%2B945%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=June 2, 2018 |work=New York Evening Telegram |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=October 16, 1906 |page=15}}{{cite web |author1=Natural Resources Group |title=Natural Area Mapping and Inventory of Kissena Park November 1986 Survey |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/parks_divisions/nrg/documents/Ecological_Assessment_Kissena_Park.pdf |publisher=New York City Parks Department |access-date=June 2, 2018}}{{rp|2}}{{cite news |title=Title to Kissena Lake; City Now Owns a Beauty Spot at Flushing-Will Make a Park of It |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/53909252/?terms=%22Kissena+Park%22+%22kissena+lake%22 |access-date=7 July 2018 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |agency=Newspapers.com |date=February 13, 1907 |page=20}}{{cite news |title=City Acquires Kissena Park: Pays Nearly $10,000 an Acre, for Part of Property-Record Price for Queens Realty |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/53909324/?terms=%22Kissena+Park%22+%22kissena+lake%22 |access-date=7 July 2018 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |agency=Newspapers.com |date=February 16, 1907 |page=18}} This included portions of the Parsons nursery sold by the family of Samuel Bowne Parsons following his 1906 death. The nursery was located at the north end of the modern park at Parsons Boulevard and Rose Avenue. Kissena Lake Park was opened in 1910. The remainder of the land from the Parsons estate was used to create the "Kissena Park" residential development. The land making up Cunningham Park (originally Hillside Park) was acquired between 1928 and 1944. In 1934, the park was named after New York City Comptroller W. Arthur Cunningham.{{cite web|title=Cunningham Park: History|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/cunningham-park/history|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|access-date=June 6, 2018}}

• In 1934, Kissena Creek was placed in a culvert at its crossing with Main Street (then called Jagger Avenue), as part of a widening project for the street.{{cite web |title=Queens Botanical Garden Master Plan |url=https://queensbotanical.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/masterplan_complete.pdf |publisher=Queens Botanical Garden, Conservation Design Forum, Atelier Dreiseitl |access-date=May 31, 2018 |date=2002}}{{rp|97−101}}
• During the 1939 New York World's Fair held in Flushing Meadows, what would become the Queens Botanical Garden was a horticultural exhibit of the fair called "Gardens on Parade" operated by Hortus, Incorporated.{{rp|102−103}} The original gardens were located just southwest of the modern site, at 131st Street between Lawrence Street and the Flushing River in the path of the future Van Wyck Expressway.

In April 1938, the Long Island Motor Parkway between Fresh Meadows, Queens and Long Island was closed by its developer William Kissam Vanderbilt II. The toll road was out competed by the more modern and free Grand Central Parkway and Northern State Parkway. Shortly afterwards the highway was donated by Vanderbilt to New York State; in return, the $80,000 to $90,000 in back taxes owed by Vanderbilt for the highway were relieved. Urban planner Robert Moses, the developer of the city highway system and the New York City Parks Commissioner, planned to convert the former highway into a "Queens Bicycle Path" between Cunningham Park and Alley Pond Park.{{cite web|title=Cunningham Park: Vanderbilt Motor Parkway|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/cunningham-park/highlights/12916|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|access-date=May 29, 2018}}{{cite web|title=Cunningham Park: Long Island Motor Parkway|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/cunningham-park/highlights/19631|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|access-date=June 24, 2018}}{{cite book|author=Richard Panchyk|title=Hidden History of Queens|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3e9dDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA56|access-date=1 July 2018|date=30 July 2018|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-1-4671-3853-6|pages=56–60}}{{cite news |last1=Patton |first1=Phil |title=A 100-Year-Old Dream: A Road Just for Cars |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/automobiles/12LIMP.html |access-date=24 June 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=October 9, 2006}}{{cite news |title=Old Toll Road Soon Will Be Public-Owned: City and 2 Counties Set to Take Title to Vanderbilt's Parkway |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201937%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201937%2520-%25207134.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dfffffffff306f973%26DocId%3D4840861%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D10%26hits%3D4ab%2B4ac%2B4ad%2B4ae%2B8b9%2B8ba%2Be10%2Be11%2Be12%2Be13%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201937%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201937%2520-%25207134.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dfffffffff306f973%26DocId%3D4840861%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D10%26hits%3D4ab%2B4ac%2B4ad%2B4ae%2B8b9%2B8ba%2Be10%2Be11%2Be12%2Be13%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=7 July 2018 |work=Long Island Daily Press |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=November 4, 1937}} The deal was finalized on July 1, 1938, after which the sections of the highway were divided up between New York City and the New York City Parks Department, the Long Island State Park Commission, Nassau County, and Suffolk County.{{cite news |last1=Andrews |first1=Laurence E. |title=Public Takes Title To Motor Parkway: 50-Mile Highway Deeded To People Of Long Island By Vanderbilts; Roadway Valued At $2,000,000 |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252023%2FFreeport%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Review%2FFreeport%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Review%25201938%2520jun-Aug%25201938%2FFreeport%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Review%25201938%2520jun-Aug%25201938%2520-%25200641.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D4dd26363%26DocId%3D3108283%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520S%26HitCount%3D10%26hits%3D5b4%2B5b5%2B5b6%2B5b7%2B8a4%2B8a5%2B8a6%2B8a7%2Ba2a%2Ba2b%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252023%2FFreeport%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Review%2FFreeport%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Review%25201938%2520jun-Aug%25201938%2FFreeport%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Review%25201938%2520jun-Aug%25201938%2520-%25200641.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D4dd26363%26DocId%3D3108283%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520S%26HitCount%3D10%26hits%3D5b4%2B5b5%2B5b6%2B5b7%2B8a4%2B8a5%2B8a6%2B8a7%2Ba2a%2Ba2b%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=7 July 2018 |work=Nassau Daily Review-Star |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=July 1, 1938 |page=1}}{{cite news |last1=Andrews |first1=Laurence E. |title=Public Takes Title To Motor Parkway: 50-Mile Highway Deeded To People Of Long Island By Vanderbilts; Roadway Valued At $2,000,000 |url=http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2023/Freeport%20NY%20Daily%20Review/Freeport%20NY%20Daily%20Review%201938%20jun-Aug%201938/Freeport%20NY%20Daily%20Review%201938%20jun-Aug%201938%20-%200638.pdf|access-date=7 July 2018 |work=Nassau Daily Review-Star |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=July 1, 1938 |page=18}} This would be the first portion of Kissena Corridor Park to be acquired, forming the easternmost edge of the future park.

In August 1940, the New York City Board of Estimate approved Queens Borough President George U. Harvey's request to acquire the former Stewart Railroad right-of-way from Flushing Meadows at Lawrence Street (College Point Boulevard) east to Fresh Meadow Road (now Utopia Parkway). The right-of-way was acquired into two tracts. The western tract west of Kissena Park and Kissena Boulevard extended {{convert|1|mi|km}} with an average width of {{convert|500|ft|m}}. The eastern segment also extended one mile past Kissena Park, with an average width of {{convert|85|ft|m}}.{{cite news|title=Moses Backs Corridor to Link Parks: Approves Harvey Plan for Kissena - Flushing Meadow Strip|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201940%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201940%2520-%25203457.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D4d2426c6%26DocId%3D4860833%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D11%26hits%3D1b%2B1c%2B117%2B118%2B2b4%2B2b5%2B301%2B302%2B88a%2B9ec%2B9f3%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201940%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201940%2520-%25203457.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D4d2426c6%26DocId%3D4860833%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D11%26hits%3D1b%2B1c%2B117%2B118%2B2b4%2B2b5%2B301%2B302%2B88a%2B9ec%2B9f3%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 28, 2018|work=Long Island Daily Press|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=August 19, 1940}}{{cite news|title=For Release: Monday, August 19, 1940|url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/41941940_press_releases_part1.pdf#page=203|access-date=May 29, 2018|work=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|date=August 19, 1940}} In September 1940, Harvey requested condemnation of additional land around the railroad from Lawrence Street east to Kissena Boulevard, between Crommelin Avenue and Kissena Boulevard to the north and North Hempstead Turnpike (now Booth Memorial Avenue) to the south.{{cite news|title=Harvey Moves to Take Title to Corridor: Asks City Planning Commission to Okay $175,000 Deal for Parks Link|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201940%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201940%2520-%25204058.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffbdaf5ee9%26DocId%3D4861406%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D10%26hits%3D8%2Bff%2B100%2B148%2B149%2B1c8%2B1c9%2Bb04%2Bb34%2Bb3b%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201940%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201940%2520-%25204058.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffbdaf5ee9%26DocId%3D4861406%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D10%26hits%3D8%2Bff%2B100%2B148%2B149%2B1c8%2B1c9%2Bb04%2Bb34%2Bb3b%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Daily Press|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=September 18, 1940|page=3}} The western stretch of the land west of Kissena Boulevard was to become the Kissena Corridor Park, which would connect Flushing Meadows and Kissena Parks. The eastern stretch of the land would be developed into a second corridor called the Cunningham Corridor, which would connect Kissena Park with Cunningham Park. In addition, a major storm sewer called the Corridor Sewer would be constructed through the two corridors. The two Park corridors were being planned by Harvey and Parks Commissioner Robert Moses.{{cite news|title=Park Corridor Condemnation is Requested: Harvey Goes to Board of Estimate as Planning Board Approves|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201940%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201940%2520-%25204085.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D50c9aa8d%26DocId%3D4861430%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D11%26hits%3D97%2B98%2B9f%2Ba0%2Bc5%2Bc6%2B14c%2B4e1%2B4e2%2B8ab%2B8b2%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201940%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201940%2520-%25204085.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D50c9aa8d%26DocId%3D4861430%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D11%26hits%3D97%2B98%2B9f%2Ba0%2Bc5%2Bc6%2B14c%2B4e1%2B4e2%2B8ab%2B8b2%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 28, 2018|work=Long Island Daily Press|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=September 19, 1940|page=8}} Moses referred to the new corridor as a "shoestring park".{{cite news |title='Shoestring' Park to Connect Flushing Meadow and Kissena |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/52649828/?terms=%22stewart+railroad%22 |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |agency=Newspapers.com |date=August 19, 1940 |page=12}} The corridors would include playgrounds, sports fields, park trails, and bicycle and bridle paths which would connect to existing paths in Cunningham Park. According to the Parks Department press release in August 1940, "The great extent of this natural drainage basin which serves the northeastern portion of the Borough of Queens requires a storm water truck sewer of such extraordinary size that it cannot be accommodated within the limits of an ordinary street." Development of the Corridor Parks and Flushing Meadows Park was to be funded by the profits from the 1939–40 New York World's Fair held in Flushing Meadows. The fair, however, did not turn a profit.{{cite web|title=Landmarks Preservation Commission: Unisphere|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/unisphere.pdf|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|access-date=March 28, 2017|date=May 16, 1995}}{{cite news |last1=Shapiro |first1=Hal |title=Post-Fair Park Dealt $10 Million Setback |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201964%2FLong%2520Island%2520%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201964%2520-%25206876.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffae98ec55%26DocId%3D4254477%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D42c%2B42d%2B464%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201964%2FLong%2520Island%2520%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201964%2520-%25206876.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffae98ec55%26DocId%3D4254477%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D42c%2B42d%2B464%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 30, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=July 14, 1964 |page=5}}

• 1941/1942: Kissena Corridor Park "garbage cemetery"

At the end of the 1939–40 New York World's Fair in 1940, debris from the demolition of the fair exhibits was used to fill the section of the future Kissena Corridor west of Main Street (today's Queens Botanical Garden). (Shortly after the approval of the Corridor Sewer and Park projects,) in 1941 the New York City Department of Sanitation led by Commissioner William F. Carey began (plans to) fill(ing) the Kissena Corridor site between Main Street and Kissena Boulevard with municipal waste as a landfill.{{cite news|title=More Garbage Cemeteries: Finishes-One Dump and Starts Another|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201945%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201945%2520-%25203051.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D7becb587%26DocId%3D4752519%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D7%26hits%3D716%2B1169%2B1180%2B1181%2B1184%2B11b5%2B1210%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201945%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201945%2520-%25203051.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D7becb587%26DocId%3D4752519%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D7%26hits%3D716%2B1169%2B1180%2B1181%2B1184%2B11b5%2B1210%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Daily Press|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=July 25, 1945|page=1}} Afterwards, the landfill would be excavated to install the sewer, and would act as a cover for the sewer. At the time, using garbage to fill the marshlands was considered more economical than filling it with clean dirt.{{cite news |title=Garbage Dumps |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201945%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201945%2520-%25200385.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa1942ceb%26DocId%3D4749853%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3Daa%2Bab%2Bac%2B111%2B112%2B113%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201945%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201945%2520-%25200385.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa1942ceb%26DocId%3D4749853%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3Daa%2Bab%2Bac%2B111%2B112%2B113%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Daily Press |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=January 27, 1945 |page=14}}{{cite news |title=Mere Dumps |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201945%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201945%2520a%2520-%25203705.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D507e047%26DocId%3D4369178%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D179%2B17a%2B17b%2B1ab%2B1ac%2B1ad%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201945%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201945%2520a%2520-%25203705.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D507e047%26DocId%3D4369178%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D179%2B17a%2B17b%2B1ab%2B1ac%2B1ad%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=August 31, 1945 |page=10}} In addition, the fill would help mitigate mosquitoes which inhabited the area around Kissena Creek.{{cite news |title=Kissena Dump: Is Carey Running Out of Sites? |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201943%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201943%2520-%25204261.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffdf63ed66%26DocId%3D4305883%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D8%26hits%3D131%2B14f%2B150%2B16c%2B16d%2B19f%2B1a0%2B1a7%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201943%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201943%2520-%25204261.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffdf63ed66%26DocId%3D4305883%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D8%26hits%3D131%2B14f%2B150%2B16c%2B16d%2B19f%2B1a0%2B1a7%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=June 2, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=October 9, 1943 |page=4}}{{cite news |title=Kissena Landfill: It's Not Another Lefferts Dump |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201943%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201943%2520-%25200172.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffcd6093d9%26DocId%3D4741766%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D1a2%2B1c2%2B1c3%2B1e8%2B22f%2B230%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201943%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201943%2520-%25200172.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffcd6093d9%26DocId%3D4741766%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D1a2%2B1c2%2B1c3%2B1e8%2B22f%2B230%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=June 2, 2018 |work=Long Island Daily Press |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=October 2, 1943 |page=18}} An existing landfill was already present on Rose Avenue in Kissena Park. This dump, which collected ashes, garbage, and refuse from Flushing, began operations in the 1930s.{{cite news|title=Ash-Garbage Mixture Is Stopped In Four Areas|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%25201933%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%25201933%252000216.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa494540b%26DocId%3D5322024%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D6c%2B6d%2B6e%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%25201933%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520North%2520Shore%2520%2520Daily%2520Journal%25201933%252000216.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa494540b%26DocId%3D5322024%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D6c%2B6d%2B6e%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=North Shore Daily Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=January 23, 1933|page=1}} A second Kissena Park landfill on North Hempstead Turnpike (Booth Memorial Avenue) was opened on November 14, 1943 and closed in July 1945.{{cite news|title=More Garbage Cemeteries; Carey Starts New Garbage Cemetery|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201945%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201945%2520-%25203052.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D2614648%26DocId%3D4752520%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D65b%2B65c%2B65d%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201945%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201945%2520-%25203052.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D2614648%26DocId%3D4752520%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D65b%2B65c%2B65d%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Daily Press|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=July 25, 1945|page=2}}

• In 1942, the federal War Production Board barred the construction of the Corridor Sewer, due to steel requirements for the World War II effort.{{cite news |title=WPB Rules Out Park Corridor Sewer Project: Home Owners Are Told They'll Have to Wait Till After War |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201942%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201942%2520-%25203336.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D4bf37587%26DocId%3D4299424%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D11%26hits%3Df%2B10%2B2d%2B2e%2B9f%2Ba0%2B182%2B183%2B2db%2B2dc%2B6a0%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201942%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201942%2520-%25203336.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D4bf37587%26DocId%3D4299424%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D11%26hits%3Df%2B10%2B2d%2B2e%2B9f%2Ba0%2B182%2B183%2B2db%2B2dc%2B6a0%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=August 10, 1942 |page=3}}
• Corridor dump began in 1943?{{cite news |title=Way Cleared For Corridor 'Land Fill' Job |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201943%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201943%2520-%25202420.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffdeb8d8d6%26DocId%3D4304042%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D21%2Bcb%2Bcc%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201943%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201943%2520-%25202420.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffdeb8d8d6%26DocId%3D4304042%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D21%2Bcb%2Bcc%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 30, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=June 5, 1943 |page=5}}

The Corridor Dump was referred to as a "garbage cemetery", and as "Carey's new-found golden hen".{{cite news|title=Borough Hall Will Check Carey Dump: Inspectors to Visit 'Corridor' Regularly to Protect Sewer Routes|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201941%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201941%2520a%2520-%25203672.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff9c99f33a%26DocId%3D4872612%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D12%2B1f%2B20%2B13e%2B1c1%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201941%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201941%2520a%2520-%25203672.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff9c99f33a%26DocId%3D4872612%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D12%2B1f%2B20%2B13e%2B1c1%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Daily Press|date=March 27, 1941}}{{cite news|title=Kissena Dump: Mr. Moses Promises a Good Job|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201942%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201942%2520-%25201259.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffc711913a%26DocId%3D4297347%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D8%26hits%3Dd9%2Bda%2Be4%2Be5%2B106%2B107%2B343%2B13ca%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201942%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201942%2520-%25201259.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffc711913a%26DocId%3D4297347%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D8%26hits%3Dd9%2Bda%2Be4%2Be5%2B106%2B107%2B343%2B13ca%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=March 27, 1942|page=4}}

• Corridor Dump complaints
• GI Housing on landfill{{cite news |title=Dump Will Be Moved From G.I. Home Site |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2520-%25202839.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5f1c6986%26DocId%3D4178768%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D253%2B254%2B255%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2520-%25202839.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5f1c6986%26DocId%3D4178768%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D253%2B254%2B255%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=April 13, 1946 |page=1}}

• 1943/1944: Post-War Plans ($2.8 million).{{cite news|title=Moses Charts $22,000,000 Job Program for Us: Outlines Park High-Speed Road Projects for Postwar Queens|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201943%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201943%2520-%25205176.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff870b5784%26DocId%3D4306795%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3Def%2Bf0%2B131%2B132%2B169%2B16a%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201943%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201943%2520-%25205176.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff870b5784%26DocId%3D4306795%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3Def%2Bf0%2B131%2B132%2B169%2B16a%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=December 13, 1943|page=1}}{{cite news|title=You'll Be Able to Take a Stroll From Hollis to Corona in a Park|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201944%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201944%2520-%25201619.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa4decf92%26DocId%3D4744943%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D939%2B93a%2B95f%2B960%2B997%2B998%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201944%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201944%2520-%25201619.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa4decf92%26DocId%3D4744943%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D939%2B93a%2B95f%2B960%2B997%2B998%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 28, 2018|work=Long Island Daily Press|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=March 7, 1944|page=8}}

{{cite news|title=Filling of Cellar Ruins Promised for Utopia|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201949%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201949%2520-%25207989.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dfffffffffe292adf%26DocId%3D4398772%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D1320%2B1321%2B1322%2B138b%2B138c%2B138d%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201949%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201949%2520-%25207989.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dfffffffffe292adf%26DocId%3D4398772%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D1320%2B1321%2B1322%2B138b%2B138c%2B138d%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 28, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=October 18, 1949|page=34}}

In 1944, the plans for the Corridor Sewer were altered by Queens Borough President James A. Burke, moving the routing of the sewer {{convert|0.25|mi|km}} north. The alterations lowered the cost of the project by $800,000.{{cite news |title=Hearing Set on Corridor Storm Drain |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201944%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201944%2520-%25202397.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffd0ce3ef0%26DocId%3D4745721%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D2a%2B2b%2B2c%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201944%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201944%2520-%25202397.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffd0ce3ef0%26DocId%3D4745721%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D2a%2B2b%2B2c%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Daily Press |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=April 20, 1944 |page=3}}{{cite news |title=Corridor Drain Approval Seen |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201944%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201944%2520-%25202653.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffd0da4efb%26DocId%3D4745977%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D1bf%2B1c0%2B1c1%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201944%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201944%2520-%25202653.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffd0da4efb%26DocId%3D4745977%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D1bf%2B1c0%2B1c1%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Daily Press |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=May 4, 1944 |page=7}} The project was approved by the Board of Estimate on May 25, 1944.{{cite news |title=Corridor Sewer Approved: Burke's Plan Saves Taxpayer Money |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201944%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201944%2520-%25203068.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffd0f861f0%26DocId%3D4746392%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D7f5%2B7f6%2B7f7%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201944%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201944%2520-%25203068.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffd0f861f0%26DocId%3D4746392%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D7f5%2B7f6%2B7f7%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Daily Press |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=May 26, 1944 |page=1}} In March 1946, Queens Borough President James A. Burke requested $5 million for the Corridor Trunk Sewer Project.{{cite news|title=Burke Wants $5,000,000 for Trunk Sewer: Asks Board for Funds to Relieve Corridor Flood Conditions|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2520-%25202254.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D49410954%26DocId%3D4178183%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D21%26hits%3D14%2B65%2B92%2B93%2B94%2B108%2B118%2B1d1%2B1e5%2B20e%2B85b%2B87c%2B8a4%2B8ab%2B8b7%2B8d0%2B8e5%2B8fe%2B92d%2B937%2B93e%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2520-%25202254.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D49410954%26DocId%3D4178183%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D21%26hits%3D14%2B65%2B92%2B93%2B94%2B108%2B118%2B1d1%2B1e5%2B20e%2B85b%2B87c%2B8a4%2B8ab%2B8b7%2B8d0%2B8e5%2B8fe%2B92d%2B937%2B93e%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=March 26, 1946|page=2}} The Board of Estimate approved the project on October 10, 1946. In November 1946 the city began receiving bids for the Corridor Sewer project.

The project would involve constructing a major storm and sanitary sewer along the former Central Railroad line right-of-way from Utopia Parkway west to the existing storm sewers in Flushing Meadows built during the 1939 New York World's Fair. In addition, a third sewer line would be constructed on the east side of Flushing Meadows. Afterwards, the sewer corridor would be developed into Kissena Corridor Park. At the time there were no major outlet sewers for storm water in the Flushing area, and existing local sewers could only operate as sanitary sewers.{{cite news|title=Bids Received For Corridor Trunk Sewers: Burke Gets Estimates on $5,000,000 Drain Project|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2520-%25209212.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff9def43dc%26DocId%3D4185141%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D18%26hits%3D26c%2B30c%2B339%2B33a%2B33b%2B362%2B3a2%2B466%2B476%2B48f%2B4b5%2B4bb%2B4c4%2B4e9%2B4fb%2B51b%2B549%2B559%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2520-%25209212.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff9def43dc%26DocId%3D4185141%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D18%26hits%3D26c%2B30c%2B339%2B33a%2B33b%2B362%2B3a2%2B466%2B476%2B48f%2B4b5%2B4bb%2B4c4%2B4e9%2B4fb%2B51b%2B549%2B559%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 28, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=November 19, 1946|page=9}} The new sewer line would also serve the Parkway Village and Fresh Meadows Houses developments being constructed by the New York Life Insurance Company. The Parkway Village development in Briarwood served as housing for United Nations staff members, while the UN General Assembly was temporarily headquartered in the New York City Building at Flushing Meadows.{{cite news |title=City Will Give Priority to UN: Weekend Conference Set on $2,250,000 Program |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2520-%25202839.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5f1c6986%26DocId%3D4178768%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D253%2B254%2B255%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2520-%25202839.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5f1c6986%26DocId%3D4178768%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D253%2B254%2B255%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=April 13, 1946 |page=1}}{{cite news |title=More Corridor Land Proposed: Additional Acres Asked to Speed Up Sewers |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2520-%25205180.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5eda5483%26DocId%3D4181109%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D543%2B544%2B545%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2520-%25205180.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5eda5483%26DocId%3D4181109%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D543%2B544%2B545%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=June 28, 1946 |page=1}}

The planned sewer trunk line would extend for {{convert|3|mi|km}} between Cunnigham Park and Flushing Meadows and be {{convert|14|ft|m}} tall, while the combined width of its three main chambers would measure {{convert|54|ft|m}} across. It was claimed to be the among the largest sewer lines in the United States. Each of its main tubes were said to be able to fit subway trains or cross country buses inside. The overall size of the main sewer was compared to that of the Holland Tunnel.{{cite news |title=Corridor Sewer Job Stayed; Cost Soars to $7,573,300 |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2520a%2520-%25201239.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D604655f7%26DocId%3D4188006%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3De2d%2Be2e%2Be2f%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2520a%2520-%25201239.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D604655f7%26DocId%3D4188006%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3De2d%2Be2e%2Be2f%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=January 31, 1947 |page=1}}

In December 1946 the bids for the sewer project were rejected by Borough Public Works Commissioner Maurice A. FitzGerald, due to being up to 53.7% higher than the estimated costs given by municipal engineers.{{cite news |title=Kissena Sewer Bids Rejected as Excessive: Contractor Quote Prices 53% Above Estimates by Engineers |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2520-%25206443.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5f193cea%26DocId%3D4182372%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3Dcb%2Bcc%2Bcd%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2520-%25206443.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5f193cea%26DocId%3D4182372%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3Dcb%2Bcc%2Bcd%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=December 11, 1946 |page=5}}{{cite news |title=Emerald Park Sewer Levies to be Probed: Civic President Acts to Determine Costs' After Reelection |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2520-%25206508.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5f1e781c%26DocId%3D4182437%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3Df9%2Bfa%2Bfb%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201946%2520-%25206508.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5f1e781c%26DocId%3D4182437%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3Df9%2Bfa%2Bfb%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=December 12, 1946 |page=22}} After the projected costs rose from $4.7 million to $7.5 million, in January 1947 the Board of Estimate rescinded its approval and called an additional public hearing for the project. On March 6, 1947, contracts were awarded for the building of the sewer, with construction expected to begin on April 1 of that year.{{cite news |title=City Lets First Contract Today On &7,000,000 Corridor Sewer |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2520a%2520-%25200453.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D7fbd3285%26DocId%3D4187220%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D14%26hits%3D34%2B35%2B45%2B46%2B88%2B89%2Baf%2Bb0%2Be0%2Be1%2B181%2B182%2B1e6%2B1e7%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2520a%2520-%25200453.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D7fbd3285%26DocId%3D4187220%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D14%26hits%3D34%2B35%2B45%2B46%2B88%2B89%2Baf%2Bb0%2Be0%2Be1%2B181%2B182%2B1e6%2B1e7%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=March 5, 1947 |page=1}} As part of the project, several homes on Utopia Parkway were condemned to make way for the sewer. At this time, the development of Kissena Corridor Park itself was pushed back to 1950 due to lack of funds.{{cite news |title=Moses Dooms 3 Homes For Corridor Sewer Job |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2520a%2520-%25200475.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D601c1674%26DocId%3D4187242%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3Dac7%2Bac8%2Bac9%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2520a%2520-%25200475.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D601c1674%26DocId%3D4187242%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3Dac7%2Bac8%2Bac9%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=March 6, 1947 |page=1}}{{cite news |title=Owners Seek Payment for Utopia Homes: Houses Will Be Moved to Make Way for Corridor Sewer |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2520-%25205748.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D7a406eef%26DocId%3D4317642%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D3da%2B3db%2B3dc%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2520-%25205748.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D7a406eef%26DocId%3D4317642%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D3da%2B3db%2B3dc%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=September 2, 1947 |page=9}}{{cite news |title=Final Decrees Due on Homes in Utopia Parkway |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2520-%25209287.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D7af8a09f%26DocId%3D4321181%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3Dfe%2Bff%2B100%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2520-%25209287.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D7af8a09f%26DocId%3D4321181%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3Dfe%2Bff%2B100%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=December 23, 1947 |page=3}}

Groundbreaking ceremonies for the sewer project were held on April 1, 1947, at the northwest corner of the Kissena Coridor at Lawrence Street and Fowler and Blossom Avenues. Borough President Burke and Borough Works Commissioner FitzGerald were in attendance. At the time, the project was referred to as "the world's largest sewer system".{{cite news |title=Burke to Start Huge Corridor Sewer Tuesday |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2520-%25201346.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff92103076%26DocId%3D4313241%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D255%2B256%2B30a%2B30b%2B349%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2520-%25201346.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff92103076%26DocId%3D4313241%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D255%2B256%2B30a%2B30b%2B349%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=March 29, 1947 |page=1}}{{cite news |title=Largest Sewer in World Is Started As Burke Launches Corridor Project |url=http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2014/Long%20Island%20City%20NY%20Star%20Journal/Long%20Island%20City%20NY%20Star%20Journal%201947/Long%20Island%20City%20NY%20Star%20Journal%201947%20-%201453.pdf |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=April 2, 1947 |page=1}}{{cite news |title=Largest Sewer in World Is Started As Burke Launches Corridor Project |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2520-%25201457.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D4a1a7c41%26DocId%3D4313352%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D140c%2B140d%2B140e%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201947%2520-%25201457.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D4a1a7c41%26DocId%3D4313352%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D140c%2B140d%2B140e%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=April 2, 1947 |page=2}} On February 19, 1948, the final contract for the project, including the trunk line from 188th Street to Francis Lewis Boulevard, was authorized from the Board of Estimate.{{cite news |title=Final Contract Ordered For Corridor Sewer |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201948%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201948%2520-%25201370.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D6285daa1%26DocId%3D4322754%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D8%26hits%3D878%2B879%2B885%2B886%2B908%2B909%2Bb75%2Bc1d%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201948%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201948%2520-%25201370.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D6285daa1%26DocId%3D4322754%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D8%26hits%3D878%2B879%2B885%2B886%2B908%2B909%2Bb75%2Bc1d%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=February 20, 1948 |page=1}} On February 27, the Queens borough sewer engineer announced that the cost of the sewer project would run to over $10,000,000, $2.25 million higher than the previous figure.{{cite news |title=Corridor Sewer Cost Upped by $2,250,000 |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201948%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201948%2520-%25201615.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa32f7466%26DocId%3D4322999%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D9ca%2B9cb%2B9df%2B9e0%2Bcfa%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201948%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201948%2520-%25201615.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa32f7466%26DocId%3D4322999%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D9ca%2B9cb%2B9df%2B9e0%2Bcfa%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=February 28, 1948 |page=1}} The main trunk of the Corridor Sewer was completed by September 1948, although many of the feeder lines had yet to be constructed.{{cite news |title=Corridor Drain Trunk Ready for Feed Lines |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201948%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201948%2520-%25206217.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffbd4341d2%26DocId%3D4327601%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D4%26hits%3Dd15%2Bd16%2Bd4e%2B12c9%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201948%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201948%2520-%25206217.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffbd4341d2%26DocId%3D4327601%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D4%26hits%3Dd15%2Bd16%2Bd4e%2B12c9%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=September 2, 1948 |page=9}}{{cite news |title=Corridor Sewer |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201948%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201948%2520-%25206279.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff97595a68%26DocId%3D4327663%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3De5%2Be6%2B1e3%2B1e4%2B1e7%2B277%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201948%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201948%2520-%25206279.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff97595a68%26DocId%3D4327663%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3De5%2Be6%2B1e3%2B1e4%2B1e7%2B277%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=September 4, 1948 |page=4}}

• In 1945, a portion of the park between 148th and 150th Streets was used by the Park and Sanitation Departments as a garbage landfill.{{cite news|title=Mystery Gas Fouls Air in Flushing|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2520-%25201431.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D61815758%26DocId%3D4468111%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D393%2B394%2B395%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2520-%25201431.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D61815758%26DocId%3D4468111%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D393%2B394%2B395%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 28, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=February 14, 1957|page=17}}
• In May 1951, Robert Moses announced plans to raise the grade the western stretch of the park between Flushing Meadows and 164th Street, by using it as a temporary garbage dump. The filling would also facilitate an extension of 146th Street north through the park.{{cite news|title=Moses Urges Dumping To Fill Kissena Corridor|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201951%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201951%2520-%25204035.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff8a233009%26DocId%3D4414345%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D25c%2B25d%2B266%2B267%2B277%2B278%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201951%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201951%2520-%25204035.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff8a233009%26DocId%3D4414345%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D25c%2B25d%2B266%2B267%2B277%2B278%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 28, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=May 21, 1951|page=1}}{{cite news|title=FitzGerald Says: Corridor Park Garbage Dump Unnecessary; 146th St. Can Be Taken Off Map to Leave Present Grade, He Contends|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201951%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201951%2520-%25204077.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D2831f43f%26DocId%3D4414387%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D236%2B237%2B238%2B2d6%2B2d7%2B2d8%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201951%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201951%2520-%25204077.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D2831f43f%26DocId%3D4414387%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D236%2B237%2B238%2B2d6%2B2d7%2B2d8%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 28, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=May 22, 1951|page=1}} Moses had already began filling the sites of other future parks with municipal waste, including Spring Creek Park and Marine Park in Brooklyn.{{cite news|last1=Sullivan|first1=Michael|title=Garbage Dump Today, Park Tomorrow|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/viewer/?file=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201962%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201962%2520-%25200097.pdf&highlightsFile=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2Fhighlighter%2Fhits%2F699d2438844616a78a288d95f9229668#page=1|access-date=January 7, 2017|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=January 4, 1962}} The plans were opposed by Queens Borough President Maurice A. FitzGerald.
• On June 7, 1951, Moses eliminated plans for the dump and the extension of 146th Street.{{cite news|title=Kissena Dump Dropped; Moses Alters His Plans For Corridor Park; 146th Street to Be Taken Off Map So Garbage Fill Won't Be Needed|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201951%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201951%2520-%25204625.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D29b8599e%26DocId%3D4414935%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D1d8%2B1d9%2B1da%2B63c%2B63d%2B63e%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201951%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201951%2520-%25204625.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D29b8599e%26DocId%3D4414935%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D1d8%2B1d9%2B1da%2B63c%2B63d%2B63e%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 28, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=June 7, 1951|page=1}}
• 1950
• Abandoned DSNY Garage at Dahlia Avenue west of Main Street (in modern Queens Botanical Gardens){{cite news |title=Home Owners Demand Razing of Old Garage: Sanitation Building Called Menace to Children in Flushing |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201950%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201950%2520-%25203558.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffbb66b5c0%26DocId%3D4380521%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D196%2B1f3%2B1fb%2B1fc%2Bb18%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201950%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201950%2520-%25203558.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffbb66b5c0%26DocId%3D4380521%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D196%2B1f3%2B1fb%2B1fc%2Bb18%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 30, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=July 5, 1950 |page=1}}{{cite news |title=Home Owners Demand Razing of Old Garage: Sanitation Building Called Menace to Children in Flushing |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201950%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201950%2520-%25203559.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffbb6624b9%26DocId%3D4380522%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D24f%2B250%2B332%2B378%2B3c6%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201950%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201950%2520-%25203559.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffbb6624b9%26DocId%3D4380522%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D24f%2B250%2B332%2B378%2B3c6%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 30, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=July 5, 1950 |page=2|quote=}}
  • 1953:
  • On June 16, 1953, a playground in the eastern corridor at 188th Street and Peck Avenue (today's Underhill Playground) was dedicated by Moses and Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri.{{cite web|title=Kissena Corridor Park: Underhill Playground|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/kissena-corridor-park/highlights/6449|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|access-date=May 28, 2018}}{{cite news|title=Kissena Corridor Playground: June 16, 1953|url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/42091953_press_releases_part1.pdf#page=12|access-date=May 29, 2018|work=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|date=June 16, 1953}}{{cite news|title=Kissena Corridor: Playground Dedication To Be Held Tomorrow|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201953%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201953%2520-%25205873.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff953e27ef%26DocId%3D4430702%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D8%26hits%3D51%2B52%2B5a%2B5b%2Bd3%2Bd4%2B121%2B122%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201953%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201953%2520-%25205873.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff953e27ef%26DocId%3D4430702%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D8%26hits%3D51%2B52%2B5a%2B5b%2Bd3%2Bd4%2B121%2B122%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 28, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=June 15, 1953|page=10}}
  • Filled by DSNY landfill.
  • At the dedication, Moses claimed that he envisioned creating a park on the Kissena Corridor site in 1919, while he lived in the area as a staffer for then-Governor Alfred E. Smith. He described the site at the time as "virtually an open sewer".{{cite news|title=Moses Begins 'Dream' In Kissena Corridor; Envisioned Playground in 1919|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201953%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201953%2520-%25205950.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D7ada02ba%26DocId%3D4430779%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D10%26hits%3D18%2B19%2B32%2B33%2B2a4%2B2a5%2B2cc%2B2cd%2B36a%2B36b%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201953%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201953%2520-%25205950.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D7ada02ba%26DocId%3D4430779%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D10%26hits%3D18%2B19%2B32%2B33%2B2a4%2B2a5%2B2cc%2B2cd%2B36a%2B36b%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 28, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=June 17, 1953|page=13}}{{cite news |title=MOSES SEES DREAM OF 1919 COME TRUE; He Dedicates Playground on Kissena Corridor in Queens Where He Once Lived |url=https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=%22kissena%20corridor%22&sort=oldest |access-date=June 6, 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=June 16, 1953 |page=23 |quote=In the summer of 1919 a young man who had joined the staff of Alfred E. Smith, then Governor, to help work out plans for reorganizing the state government used to stroll occasionally along a ribbon of land in Flushing, Queens, known as the Kissena Corridor.}}{{cite news |title=Moses Hits Cashmore Over Queens Project |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%25205%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%25201953%2520%2520Grayscale%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%25201953%2520%2520Grayscale%2520-%25204363.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D392d5362%26DocId%3D6938758%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cindex%2520O%252dG%252dT%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D575%2B576%2B59e%2B59f%2B5bf%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%25205%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%25201953%2520%2520Grayscale%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%25201953%2520%2520Grayscale%2520-%25204363.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D392d5362%26DocId%3D6938758%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cindex%2520O%252dG%252dT%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D575%2B576%2B59e%2B59f%2B5bf%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=June 6, 2018 |work=Brooklyn Eagle |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=June 17, 1953 |page=5}}
  • western stretch of the park was landfilled in the 1950s from dirt excavated for the construction of the Long Island Expressway.{{cite web|title=Kissena Corridor Park: Kissena Corridor West|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/kissena-corridor-park/history|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|access-date=May 28, 2018}}{{cite web|title=Kissena Corridor Park: Kissena Corridor East|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/kissena-corridor-park/highlights/12241|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|access-date=May 28, 2018}}{{cite news|title=Funds Lacking: Kissena Park Leveling Job Off 'Til '58|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2520-%25203305.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D6353109a%26DocId%3D4469985%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D43f%2B440%2B441%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2520-%25203305.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D6353109a%26DocId%3D4469985%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D43f%2B440%2B441%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 28, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=April 8, 1957|page=2}} By 1960, 550,000 cubic yards of dirt were deposited on the park from the Long Island Expressway. On June 8, 1959, Moses announced that additional fill would come from the Clearview Expressway, which would raise the grade of the park and end garbage landfilling.{{cite news|title="Why," Asked as Project Lags|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201960%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201960%2520c%2520-%25200291.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dfffffffff72f0f81%26DocId%3D4212974%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D40a%2B40b%2B40c%2B46c%2B46d%2B46e%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201960%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201960%2520c%2520-%25200291.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dfffffffff72f0f81%26DocId%3D4212974%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D40a%2B40b%2B40c%2B46c%2B46d%2B46e%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 28, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=January 11, 1960|page=24}}{{cite news |title=Dirt From Expressway To Fill Corridor Park |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201959%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201959%2520-%25205394.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D2ee3305%26DocId%3D4193912%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D4%26hits%3D2b7%2B2b8%2B2bd%2B2be%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201959%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201959%2520-%25205394.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D2ee3305%26DocId%3D4193912%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D4%26hits%3D2b7%2B2b8%2B2bd%2B2be%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=June 6, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=June 8, 1959 |page=3}}
  • 1954
  • In November 1954, then-New York City Budget Director Abe Beame proposed dropping funds for the development of Kissena Corridor Park from the 1955 Capital Outlay Budget.{{cite news|title=Beame Rapped For Proposing Park Fund Cut|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201954%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201954%2520a%2520-%25201724.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5bbe6345%26DocId%3D4446517%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3Db%2Bc%2B4a%2B4b%2B609%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201954%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201954%2520a%2520-%25201724.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5bbe6345%26DocId%3D4446517%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3Db%2Bc%2B4a%2B4b%2B609%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=November 29, 1954|page=5}}
  • 1955
  • Illegal dumping, floods, brush fires{{cite news|title=Dumping Curb Acclaimed|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201954%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201954%2520a%2520-%25202917.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D45d3eb97%26DocId%3D4447709%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D29d%2B29e%2B29f%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201954%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201954%2520a%2520-%25202917.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D45d3eb97%26DocId%3D4447709%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D29d%2B29e%2B29f%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=December 29, 1954|page=11}}{{cite news|title=Showdown Demanded On Kissena Park Plan: Moses' Promise Cited|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201955%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201955%2520c%2520-%25202850.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D4fbbdf7b%26DocId%3D4455377%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3Da7%2Ba8%2Ba9%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201955%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201955%2520c%2520-%25202850.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D4fbbdf7b%26DocId%3D4455377%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3Da7%2Ba8%2Ba9%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=1955}}
  • July: local civic association proposes a swimming pool at Utopia Parkway and Peck Avenue.{{cite news|title=Corridor Park Pool Urged by Civic Workers: Appeal to Moes|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201955%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201955%2520c%2520-%25200549.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D4c858ee1%26DocId%3D4453076%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D100%2B101%2B102%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201955%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201955%2520c%2520-%25200549.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D4c858ee1%26DocId%3D4453076%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D100%2B101%2B102%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=July 20, 1955|page=4}} The association described the park as a "vast wasteland, long infested with rats and vermin."
  • 1956
  • described as "a shoddy no-man's land of rubbish, weeds, and stagnant water, frequented in most areas only by mosquitos and vagrants."{{cite news|title=Mothers in Flushing Demand Playground: Cite Corridor Park Pledge|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201956%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201956%2520-%25205521.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D595453f2%26DocId%3D4462241%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D2f4%2B2f5%2B2f6%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201956%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201956%2520-%25205521.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D595453f2%26DocId%3D4462241%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D2f4%2B2f5%2B2f6%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=July 31, 1956|page=22}}
  • 1957:
  • Playground at Elder Av and 135th St (now Queens Botanical Garden)
  • A third playground in the park, located at Elder Avenue and 135th Street in what in now the Queens Botanical Garden, was originally set to be complete by March 1957. However by March 11, only a comfort station and lights were constructed, while the site required significant filling before development could occur. According to the Parks Department, the project was delayed due to bad weather.{{cite news|title=March Here, But Not Playground|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2520-%25202243.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D61d77fe0%26DocId%3D4468923%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D6f%2B70%2B71%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2520-%25202243.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D61d77fe0%26DocId%3D4468923%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D6f%2B70%2B71%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=March 11, 1957|page=1}}{{cite news|title='Tardy' Playground Ready Next Month|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2520-%25202312.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D61ef25f7%26DocId%3D4468992%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D387%2B388%2B389%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2520-%25202312.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D61ef25f7%26DocId%3D4468992%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D387%2B388%2B389%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=March 12, 1957|page=24}}
  • March: Playground site used as dumping ground; filled with dirt after community petition.{{cite news|title=Corridor Park Trash Covered by Bulldozer: Bigger Playsite Plea Refused|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2520-%25202370.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D6204a0e4%26DocId%3D4469050%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D311%2B312%2B313%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2520-%25202370.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D6204a0e4%26DocId%3D4469050%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D311%2B312%2B313%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=March 14, 1957}}
  • Playground in west corridor at 146th Street and 56th Road (today's Playground One Forty Six) opened June 24, 1957.{{cite news|title=Second 'Midget' Playground Open|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2520-%25205931.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D66fc6b06%26DocId%3D4472609%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D2bb%2B2bc%2B2bd%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201957%2520-%25205931.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D66fc6b06%26DocId%3D4472609%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D2bb%2B2bc%2B2bd%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 28, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=June 24, 1957}}
  • 1959:
  • intended as "garden spot" of the city; little development and deterioration; continued illegal dumping{{cite news|title=Kissena Job Precedure Demanded|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201959%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201959%2520-%25200870.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffb5514488%26DocId%3D4189390%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D2e%2B2f%2B30%2B5a%2B5b%2B5c%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201959%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201959%2520-%25200870.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffb5514488%26DocId%3D4189390%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D2e%2B2f%2B30%2B5a%2B5b%2B5c%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=January 27, 1959|page=10}}
  • "Rats as big as cats".{{cite news |title=Rats Infest Corridor: Worry Mothers |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201959%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201959%2520-%25205649.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D30331b5%26DocId%3D4194167%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D4%26hits%3Dc0%2Bc1%2Bfc%2Bfd%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201959%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201959%2520-%25205649.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D30331b5%26DocId%3D4194167%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D4%26hits%3Dc0%2Bc1%2Bfc%2Bfd%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=June 6, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=June 15, 1959 |page=12}}

Creation of Botanical Gardens

Prior to the 1964−1965 New York World's Fair, the western portion of Kissena Corridor Park between Lawrence Street / College Point Boulevard and Main Street adjacent to Flushing Meadows Park was leased to the World's Fair Corporation, along with most of Flushing Meadows.{{cite web |title=Preparation of the Site for the World's Fair 1964-1965: Supplementary Report |url=https://www.worldsfairphotos.com/nywf64/fair-corp/site-prep-supplementary.pdf |publisher=City of New York |access-date=May 31, 2018 |date=April 18, 1960}}{{rp|3}} In 1961 as part of $3 million in development for the World's Fair, the Queens Botanical Garden was planned to be relocated from the fair grounds in Flushing Meadows to the west end of Kissena Corridor Park adjacent to the World's Fair Grounds. This tract of Kissena Corridor Park was described as "{{convert|35|acre|ha}} of bogs and dump land". The project included a new administration building, to cost $150,000, and a pedestrian overpass over Lawrence Street leading to Flushing Meadows. The existing garden in Flushing Meadows would be demolished to make way for new fair exhibits, and the extension of the Van Wyck Expressway north through the park to the Whitestone Expressway.{{rp|10–13}}{{cite news|title=Mova Botanical Gardens|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%25201961-1963%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%25201961-1963%252000172.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D7bd2b13c%26DocId%3D5771275%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D2ce%2B2cf%2B2d0%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%25201961-1963%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%25201961-1963%252000172.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D7bd2b13c%26DocId%3D5771275%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D2ce%2B2cf%2B2d0%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Bayside Times|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=November 9, 1961|page=2|quote=}}{{cite news |title=City Ponders Funds for World's Fair |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201961%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201961%2520b%2520-%25201181.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff99bfd797%26DocId%3D4224797%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D6f%2B72%2B73%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201961%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201961%2520b%2520-%25201181.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff99bfd797%26DocId%3D4224797%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D6f%2B72%2B73%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=November 22, 1961 |page=35}}{{cite news |title=Garden Bill Given Push; By City Council |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201961%2FLong%2520Island%2520%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201961%2520-%25202867.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff93ec71ac%26DocId%3D4216530%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D359%2B529%2B52a%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201961%2FLong%2520Island%2520%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201961%2520-%25202867.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff93ec71ac%26DocId%3D4216530%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D359%2B529%2B52a%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=March 10, 1961 |page=5}} This site was originally planned to be used as parking space for the fair.{{cite news |title=World's Fair Parking Plan Hit: Setup Branded as 'Frightening' to Neighborhood |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201960%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201960%2520-%25202745.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D459a8891%26DocId%3D4203864%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D50%2B51%2B84%2B85%2B119%2B11a%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201960%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201960%2520-%25202745.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D459a8891%26DocId%3D4203864%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D50%2B51%2B84%2B85%2B119%2B11a%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=June 4, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=April 19, 1960 |page=5}}

Grading work for the project began on March 22, 1961.{{cite news |title=Work Begins at Site for Relocated Queens Gardens |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/03/23/archives/work-begins-at-site-for-relocated-queens-gardens.html |access-date=June 2, 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=March 23, 1961 |page=16}} The Board of Estimate approved the Botanical Garden project and other World's Fair projects in September 23, 1961. At the time, the work for the gardens was estimated to cost $341,700.{{cite news |title=Board OK Given More Fair Projects |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201961%2FLong%2520Island%2520%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201961%2520-%25200402.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff92315829%26DocId%3D4214065%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D4e8%2B4eb%2B4ec%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201961%2FLong%2520Island%2520%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201961%2520-%25200402.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff92315829%26DocId%3D4214065%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D4e8%2B4eb%2B4ec%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=September 23, 1961 |page=9}} Construction on the administration building began in 1962.{{cite news |title=Botanical Garden Administration Building Underway |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FRidgewood%2520NY%2520Times%2FRidgewood%2520NY%2520Times%25201962%2FRidgewood%2520NY%2520Times%25201962%252000415_2.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5ec67e39%26DocId%3D4074605%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D12f%2B177%2B28f%2B290%2B4d6%2B556%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FRidgewood%2520NY%2520Times%2FRidgewood%2520NY%2520Times%25201962%2FRidgewood%2520NY%2520Times%25201962%252000415_2.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5ec67e39%26DocId%3D4074605%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D12f%2B177%2B28f%2B290%2B4d6%2B556%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Ridgewood Times |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=September 6, 1962 |page=17}}{{cite news |title=For Release: Queens Botanical Garden Administration Building |url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/42521962_press_releases.pdf |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation |date=August 17, 1962}} The building was designed by the Brodsky, Hopf & Adler firm, which also designed terminals at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas.{{cite web|title=The Stars are Big and Bright—Deep in the Heart of Texas |first=Steven |last=Fox |url=http://offcite.org/2009/08/10/the-stars-are-big-and-bright-deep-in-the-heart-of-texas |work=Offcite Blog |date=August 10, 2009 |access-date=June 6, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120116190859/http://offcite.org/2009/08/10/the-stars-are-big-and-bright-deep-in-the-heart-of-texas |archive-date=January 16, 2012 }}{{cite book|author=G.E. Kidder Smith|title=Source Book of American Architecture: 500 Notable Buildings from the 10th Century to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kM5H7TNRh2sC&pg=PA545|access-date=May 31, 2018|date=September 2000|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|isbn=978-1-56898-254-0|page=545}} Landscaping work was done by Gilmore David Clarke and Michael Rapuano, who also designed the original 1939 World's Fair Grounds and the 1964 layout for the fair.{{cite web|title=Flushing Meadows Corona Park: Unisphere|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/flushing-meadows-corona-park/highlights/12761|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation}} The section of Elder Avenue that ran southwest across the Corridor Park site between Main Street and Peck Avenue was de-mapped to integrate the land into the Botanical Gardens.{{rp|3}} Three Blue Atlas Cedar trees were transplanted from the original garden site to the new main entrance on Main Street.{{rp|104−105}} The new Queens Botanical Garden was dedicated on October 19, 1963.{{cite news |title=To Be Dedicated |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201963%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201963%2520-%25207023.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa7dfe536%26DocId%3D4244924%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D354%2B366%2B367%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201963%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201963%2520-%25207023.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa7dfe536%26DocId%3D4244924%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D354%2B366%2B367%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 31, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=October 18, 1963 |page=8}}{{cite book|title=30 Years of Progress: 1934–1965|date=June 9, 1964|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/parks_history/library/pdf/thirty_years_of_progress.pdf|access-date=March 31, 2017}}{{rp|42}}

Other Developments

Like in the first World's Fair, profits from the second fair were to fund development of both Flushing Meadows and Kissena Corridor Parks, as desired by now-fair president Robert Moses. The cost of the project was estimated at $23 million (later $24 million).{{cite news |last1=Arnold |first1=Martin |title=Fair Offers Plan for Parks System |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/01/20/fair-offers-plan-for-park-system.html |access-date=June 3, 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=January 20, 1964}} At the time, Moses envisioned the Kissena Corridor to extend {{convert|7|mi|km}} between Flushing Meadows and the Nassau County line. The {{convert|2816|acre|ha}} park chain would run along the "'spine' of Queens", connecting Flushing Meadows, Kissena Park, Cunningham Park, Alley Pond Park, and the Douglaston Park Golf Course. The project would include a bikeway connecting the parks. The plan also included a Queens Zoo to be built adjacent to the Queens Botanical Garden and operated by the Queens Botanical Garden Society. The zoo was expected to be complete by Spring 1967.{{cite news |title=After the Fair Superb Parks |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201964%2FLong%2520Island%2520%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201964%2520-%25200631.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffd6425862%26DocId%3D4248232%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D9%26hits%3D1f0%2B23d%2B23e%2B289%2B28c%2B2a7%2B2a9%2B2b3%2B30b%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201964%2FLong%2520Island%2520%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201964%2520-%25200631.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffd6425862%26DocId%3D4248232%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D9%26hits%3D1f0%2B23d%2B23e%2B289%2B28c%2B2a7%2B2a9%2B2b3%2B30b%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=June 4, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=January 20, 1964 |page=6}}{{cite news |title=Queens To Get A Zoo |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%25201964%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%25201964%252000233_1.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D37f7be28%26DocId%3D6892565%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D12%26hits%3D5fd%2B6cc%2B70a%2B70b%2B70e%2B715%2B716%2B722%2B751%2B75c%2B75d%2B767%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%25201964%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%25201964%252000233_1.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D37f7be28%26DocId%3D6892565%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D12%26hits%3D5fd%2B6cc%2B70a%2B70b%2B70e%2B715%2B716%2B722%2B751%2B75c%2B75d%2B767%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=June 4, 2018 |work=New York Amsterdam News |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=March 14, 1964 |page=28}} The lease of the Flushing Meadows site to the World's Fair Corporation, however, stated the corporation must return the surplus profits to the city for education.{{cite news |title=Council Puts Off Fair's Park Plan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/20/council-puts-off-fairs-park-plan.html |access-date=May 30, 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=March 20, 1964}} Moses clashed with then-City Comptroller Abe Beame and the New York City Council, who both desired the funds to be used for education.{{cite news |last1=Shapiro |first1=Hal |title=Post-Fair Park Dealt $10 Million Setback |url=http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2014/Long%20Island%20City%20NY%20Star%20Journal/Long%20Island%20City%20NY%20Star%20Journal%201964/Long%20Island%20%20City%20NY%20Star%20Journal%201964%20-%206899.pdf|access-date=May 30, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=July 14, 1964 |page=16}}

On June 21, 1962, the Board of Estimate allocated $654,655 for projects towards the development of Kissena Corridor Park. This included nearly $500,000 for the development of the eastern stretch of the park, and $187,200 for a football and soccer field near Kissena Boulevard in the western park.{{cite news |title=Beep Wins N. Hills Delay; Wants More Park Space; Estimate Board Acts on Kissena Corridor, Other Items |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201962%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201962%2520-%25206068.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D31d205c5%26DocId%3D4232178%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D7%26hits%3Dd%2Be%2B753%2B754%2B755%2B784%2B785%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201962%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201962%2520-%25206068.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D31d205c5%26DocId%3D4232178%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D7%26hits%3Dd%2Be%2B753%2B754%2B755%2B784%2B785%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=June 6, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=June 22, 1962 |page=7}}

In January 1964, Moses proposed that the World's Fair Corporation remain in operation until the end of 1967 in order to complete the park chain. The corporation would also handle the construction contracts.

In March 1964, the New York City Council voted to construct a school above the Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx against Moses's wishes, which would become Herbert H. Lehman High School.

In July 1964, Moses revealed that only $14 million in surplus fair funds would be available for the two parks, as opposed to the anticipated $24 million.

In July 1966, the recreation committee from Community Planning Board 14B (serving Flushing, College Point, Whitestone, and Beechhurst) accused the Parks Department and Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving of neglecting the maintenance and development of Kissena Corridor Park.{{cite news |title=Hoving Faces Quiz On Corridor Park |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201966%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201966%2520-%25205460.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffe773232b%26DocId%3D4341633%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D4%26hits%3D1fc%2B1fd%2B2ab%2B2ac%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201966%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201966%2520-%25205460.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffe773232b%26DocId%3D4341633%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D4%26hits%3D1fc%2B1fd%2B2ab%2B2ac%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=June 4, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=July 13, 1966 |page=6}}

• IS 237 (Rachel L. Carson)
• In July 1966, Local School Board 25 serving Flushing (headed by future Board of Education President Murry Bergtraum) suggested constructing the planned Intermediate School 237 as a "garden school", to be located within Kissena Corridor Park on Colden Street between Jupiter and Geranium Avenues.{{cite news |last1=Szachacz |first1=Toddy |last2=Franz |first2=John |title=Kissena Site Urged for New School |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201966%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201966%2520-%25205223.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffd5c61212%26DocId%3D4341396%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D2c%2B2d%2B31%2B136%2B2a0%2B2a1%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201966%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201966%2520-%25205223.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffd5c61212%26DocId%3D4341396%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D2c%2B2d%2B31%2B136%2B2a0%2B2a1%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=May 30, 2018 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=July 6, 1966 |page=6}}
• opened across from the park in September 1971.{{cite news|last1=McCarthy|first1=Thomas|title=School Near Garden Is Anything Bus Bed of Roses, Students Find|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%25201971%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%25201971%252000431_1.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff86949cba%26DocId%3D5778920%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D40%2B41%2B42%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%25201971%2FBayside%2520NY%2520Times%25201971%252000431_1.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff86949cba%26DocId%3D5778920%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D40%2B41%2B42%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 28, 2018|work=Bayside Times|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=November 18, 1971|page=2}}

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Kissena Corridor Park consists of two separate sections of parkland, which collectively contain over {{convert|100|acre|ha}} of land and extend {{convert|4.5|mi|km}} east-to-west through northeastern Queens. The park chain connects Flushing Meadows–Corona Park at its west end with Cunningham Park at its east end, with Kissena Park and the Kissena Park Golf Course at the center of the corridor.

The western section of the park connects Flushing Meadows–Corona Park to the west with Kissena Park to the east. Lawrence Street and College Point Boulevard mark the west end of the park, while Kissena Boulevard is at the east end. The site is generally bound by Colden Street to the north and Booth Memorial Avenue to the south.{{cite web|title=New York City Parkland Borough of Queens - Community District 7; Well-Served Areas|url=http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/oec/technical-manual/2010_ceqr_tm_open_space_map_queens7.pdf|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|access-date=May 29, 2018|date=2010}}{{cite web |title=Kissena Corridor Park West: Park Map |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/kissena-corridor-park/map |publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation |access-date=June 4, 2018}} The west park is located in Greater Flushing. To the south are Queensboro Hill and Pomonok. To the north are Flushing and Murray Hill. The park measures {{convert|700|ft|m}} north-to-south. Three blocks entirely surrounded by the park west of Kissena Boulevard are developed with houses. The westernmost parcel was taken for the Queens Botanical Garden in the 1960s, and is now often associated with the adjacent Flushing Meadows–Corona Park.{{cite web|title=Flushing Meadows Corona Park Strategic Framework Plan; Data Sources, Physical Conditions & Assessments|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/vt_flushing_meadows/presentation/02siteanalysis.pdf|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation}}{{rp|15}}{{cite web|title=Flushing Meadows Corona Park Strategic Framework Plan; Conceptual Framework|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/vt_flushing_meadows/presentation/04conceptualframework_2.pdf|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation}}{{rp|20−21}} Main Street separates the Gardens to the west from the west of the park to the east.

The eastern section of the park extends southeast diagonally from the Kissena Park Golf Course at Fresh Meadow Lane near Utopia Parkway, to Cunningham Park at Francis Lewis Boulevard. This section is more narrow, running between Underhill Avenue to the north and Peck Avenue to the south. To the south is Fresh Meadows and to the north is Auburndale.{{cite web|title=New York City Parkland Borough of Queens - Community District 8; Well-Served Areas|url=http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/oec/technical-manual/2010_ceqr_tm_open_space_map_queens8.pdf|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|access-date=May 29, 2018|date=2010}}{{cite web|title=New York City Parkland Borough of Queens - Community District 11; Well-Served Areas|url=http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/oec/technical-manual/2010_ceqr_tm_open_space_map_queens11.pdf|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|access-date=May 29, 2018|date=2010}}{{cite web |title=Kissena Corridor Park East: Park Map |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/kissena-corridor-park-q300a/map|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation |access-date=June 4, 2018}} This section is also not continuous, with several streets crossing the park at grade. Utopia Parkway and 188th Street traverse the park north-to-south, while 58th Avenue runs east-to-west through the park. The park is bisected by the Long Island Expressway near its eastern end, necessitating an overpass bridge to travel over the highway.{{rp|54}} The park contains {{convert|45.937|acre|ha}} of land.

The eastern edge of the park is formed by the former Long Island Motor Parkway (also known as the Vanderbilt Parkway), since converted into a park trail. The parkway runs north-to-south adjacent to the west of Francis Lewis Boulevard and parallel to Cunningham Park, to a point just north of Union Turnpike. It then continues east parallel to Union Turnpike, connecting to Alley Pond Park in Oakland Gardens.{{cite web|title=Cunningham Park: Vanderbilt Motor Parkway|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/cunningham-park/highlights/12916|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|access-date=May 29, 2018}}{{cite web|title=Cunningham Park: Long Island Motor Parkway|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/cunningham-park/highlights/19631|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|access-date=June 24, 2018}}

The chain of parks between Flushing Meadows and Alley Pond Park connected by Kissena Corridor Park form the "Kissena-Cunningham Corridor" of the Brooklyn–Queens Greenway, a {{convert|40|mi|km|adj=on}} pedestrian and cycling route which stretches from Coney Island, Brooklyn to Fort Totten and the Throgs Neck Bridge in Bayside, Queens.{{rp|1−3, 54−62}} The Kissena Corridor portion of the route begins at College Point Boulevard at the east end of Flushing Meadows, and runs east on several local streets at the south end of the park chain, bypassing the Queens Botanical Garden. The route physically enters Kissena Corridor Park at 150th Street and 56th Road, then runs through Kissena Park, along a bike lane on Underhill Road along the north side of Kissena Corridor East, then runs along the former Long Island Motor Parkway to Cunningham Park. The Greenway continues east along the parkway to Alley Pond Park.{{rp|54−62}}{{cite web|title=NYC 2016 Bike Map|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/bikemap-2016.pdf|publisher=New York City Department of Transportation, New York City Department of City Planning, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, WalkNYC|access-date=May 29, 2018|date=2016}}

• Kissena Way{{cite news|last1=Zunitch|first1=Victoria|title=Will a 'KissenaWay' come to Flushing? Activists, residents walk path through parks they hope future trail will link|url=http://www.qchron.com/editions/north/will-a-kissenaway-come-to-flushing/article_90dffde0-79dd-51d6-92ce-293664516bd8.html|access-date=May 29, 2018|work=Queens Chronicle|date=November 30, 2017}}

Located underneath Kissena Park and Kissena Corridor Park West along the Stewart Railroad right-of-way is the Kissena Corridor Sewer. The combined sewer receives water from as far east as Little Neck. The remnants of Kissena Creek also flow in a sewer underneath the parks and the Queens Botanical Garden.{{cite web |title=Combined Sewer Overflow Long Term Control Plan for Alley Creek and Little Neck Bay |url=https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/water_pdf/acreport1a.pdf |publisher=New York City Department of Environmental Protection, AECOM USA, Inc. |access-date=June 4, 2018 |date=November 2013}}{{rp|2-12, 2-15−2-18}}{{cite web |title=Flushing Bay Facility Plan Report |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/cso_long_term_control_plan/flushing-bay-wwfp.pdf |publisher=New York City Department of Environmental Protection |access-date=June 4, 2018}}{{rp|3-18−3-19, 3-23−3-25, 1-1−1-2 (PDF p.77−78, 82−84, 401−402)}} The sewers flow west into the Flushing Bay Combined Sewer Outfall (CSO) Retention Facility, located in Flushing Meadows underneath the Al Oerter Recreation Center across to the west of the Queens Botanical Garden. The facility can hold up to {{convert|43.4|e6USgal|}} of water from overflows during storms, before pumping the water to the Tallman Island Waste Water Treatment Plant in College Point.{{rp|2-12, 2-15−2-18}} {{rp|1-1−1-2 (PDF p.401−402)}}{{cite web |title=Flushing Bay Combined Sewer Outfall (CSO) Retention Facility |url=http://www1.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/dep_projects/cp_flushing_bay_cso.shtml |publisher=New York City Department of Environmental Protection |access-date=June 4, 2018}} Otherwise, the water empties into the Flushing River which flows north into Flushing Bay.

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Evergreen Community Garden is located in Kissena Corridor Park West at Colden Street and Juniper Avenue next to Rachel Carson Playground.{{cite book|author=Adrienne Onofri|title=Walking Queens: 30 Tours for Discovering the Diverse Communities, Historic Places, and Natural Treasures of New York City's Largest Borough|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2vgrDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA80|access-date=June 8, 2018|date=July 21, 2014|publisher=Wilderness Press|isbn=978-0-89997-731-7|pages=80, 89}} The garden is currently managed by the Parks Department under their GreenThumb program. The {{convert|5|acre|ha|adj=on}} garden contains 280 plots measuring {{convert|400|ft2|m2}}, which can be purchased by local residents.{{cite news |last1=Ern |first1=Matthew |title=Protest at Flushing community garden: Korean seniors claim intimidation by the management committee |url=http://www.qchron.com/editions/north/protest-at-flushing-community-garden/article_2bcc42c8-52fb-11e4-8e9d-2782ff0a6627.html |access-date=June 8, 2018 |work=Queens Chronicle |date=October 2, 2014}} Plants cultivated in the garden include fir trees, Korean bellflowers, and lotus flowers. The majority of the members of the garden are of Korean descent, many of whom are elderly.

The garden was created in 1982 by elderly Korean immigrants, from land on the former Central Railroad right-of-way. At the time it was considered "a dump ground...weed-land with cement blocks and buried tires."{{cite news |last1=Kravitz |first1=Derek |title=Dispute Grows Tense Over Community Garden in Queens: Evergreen Community Garden Has Become the Site of Violent Confrontations |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324635904578642163297319032 |access-date=June 8, 2018 |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=August 1, 2013}} The garden was initially privately managed by the Korean-American Senior Citizens Society. The garden was taken over by the Parks Department in March 2012, leading to protests from gardeners and the former management group.{{cite news|last1=Rhoades|first1=Liz|title=Parks Dept. taking back Kissena garden: Run by Korean group for years, now under Green Thumb program|url=http://www.qchron.com/editions/north/parks-dept-taking-back-kissena-garden/article_4a1e46b2-214e-5b30-afd0-a81ed8075f35.html|access-date=May 29, 2018|work=Queens Chronicle|date=March 8, 2012}}{{cite news |last1=Robinson |first1=Alex |title=Protesters rail at garden |url=https://www.timesledger.com/stories/2014/40/evergreen_tl_2014_10_03_q.html |access-date=June 8, 2018 |work=TimesLedger |date=October 2, 2014}} The Parks Department claimed that the garden was excluding potential members and charged excessive fees. Other problems included the selling of produce from the garden, which is banned by the Parks Department, and the use of human feces as fertilzer. Following the takeover, however, the Senior Citizens Society claimed the Parks Department overcharged members and attempted to force out existing Korean gardeners. In September 2012, the former manager of the garden began a hunger strike and threatened to set himself on fire in protest, leading Intermediate School 237 across the street to be placed on lockdown.{{cite news |last1=Chan |first1=Melissa |title=Man's threat to light self on fire locks down Flushing school |url=https://qns.com/story/2012/09/27/mans-threat-to-light-self-on-fire-locks-down-flushing-school/ |access-date=June 8, 2018 |work=Queens Courier |date=September 27, 2012}}{{cite news |last1=Anuta |first1=Joe |title=Gardener tries to end his life in Kissena Pk. |url=https://www.timesledger.com/stories/2012/39/hungerstrike_ne_2012_09_27_q.html |access-date=June 8, 2018 |work=TimesLedger |date=September 27, 2012}} Gardeners later circulated a petition, and organized a protest during an event at the garden in September 2014.

• Playground One Forty Six (CXLVI)
• Rachel Carson Playground & Silent Spring Playground
• Comfort station
• In 1981, local resident John Henry Byas began lobbying for a comfort station to be built in the park.{{cite news |last1=Anuta |first1=Joe |title=Flushing park gets toilet after 30 years |url=https://www.timesledger.com/stories/2011/47/threedecadebathroom_wt_2011_11_24_q.html?utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=module&utm_source=similar&utm_content=intra |access-date=June 1, 2018 |work=TimesLedger |date=November 26, 2011}}{{cite news |title=Kissena Corridor Park: Parks Cuts The Ribbon At Rachel Carson Playground Comfort Station |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/kissena-corridor-park/pressrelease/21113 |access-date=June 1, 2018 |work=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation |date=April 5, 2013}}{{cite news |last1=Kilgannon |first1=Corey |title=A Crusade for Comfort in the Park |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/nyregion/john-henry-byas-and-his-30-year-crusade-for-toilets-in-a-queens-park.html |access-date=June 2, 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=May 4, 2012}}
• Ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on April 5, 2013, with then-City Comptroller John Liu and Queens Borough Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski in attendance.{{cite news |last1=Liu |first1=Beatrice |title=A little more 'comfort' in Kissena Park |url=http://www.queensledger.com/view/full_story/22210683/article-A-little-more--comfort--in-Kissena-Park |access-date=June 8, 2018 |work=Queens Ledger |date=April 10, 2013}}
• Located across the street is the Rachel L. Carson Intermediate School (IS 237). The building also houses the East-West School of International Studies, a grades 6-12 school.{{cite news |last1=Rhoades |first1=Liz |title=I.S. 237 chief Cantara retires after 14 years |url=http://www.qchron.com/editions/north/i-s-chief-cantara-retires-after-years/article_d7377216-2a26-57e6-ab38-864338b82a37.html |access-date=June 1, 2018 |work=Queens Chronicle |date=December 11, 2008}}
• NYHMC Playground / Amerigo Vespucci Campo-Di-Boccie
• Underhill Playground
• $230,000 allocated for construction of the playground in August 1952.{{cite news|title=$230,000 Voted for Kissena Corridor Park And $36,000 for Neighborhood Playgrounds|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201952%2FLong%2520Island%2520%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201952%2520-%25208395.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa49b94a7%26DocId%3D4425338%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D87%2B88%2B11a%2B11b%2B11f%2B120%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201952%2FLong%2520Island%2520%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201952%2520-%25208395.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa49b94a7%26DocId%3D4425338%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D87%2B88%2B11a%2B11b%2B11f%2B120%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=August 22, 1952|page=24}}{{cite news|title=Start Near On Playsite In Corridor|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201952%2FLong%2520Island%2520%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201952%2520-%25208432.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D46ddef19%26DocId%3D4425375%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D61%2B62%2B63%2B385%2B386%2B387%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201952%2FLong%2520Island%2520%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201952%2520-%25208432.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D46ddef19%26DocId%3D4425375%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D61%2B62%2B63%2B385%2B386%2B387%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=May 30, 2018|work=Long Island Star-Journal|agency=Fultonhistory.com|date=August 25, 1952|page=3}}
• Dedicated by Moses and Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri on June 16, 1953.
• Captain Mario Fajardo Park
• Holy Cow Playground / Public School 4
• Holy Cow Playground is located at the east end of the eastern stretch of Kissena Corridor Park across from Cunningham Park, next to Public School 4 (originally Public School 179) and near the Fresh Meadows Houses development.{{cite web|title=Holy Cow Playground: Park Map|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/holy-cow-playground/map|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|access-date=May 28, 2018}}{{cite web|title=NYC Department of Education Building Condition Assessment Survey 2016-2017: P.S. 179 - Queens|url=http://schools.nyc.gov/documents/SchoolReports/SCA/enc_rpts/Q179_A.pdf|publisher=New York City Department of Education|access-date=May 28, 2018|date=November 30, 2016}} Adjacent to the north of the playground at Francis Lewis Boulevard and the Horace Harding Expressway is St. Francis Preparatory School. The land for the playground was acquired in 1947. Land for P.S. 179 was ceded from Kissena Corridor Park in 1954. The playground opened as P.S. 179 Playground on October 11, 1956.{{cite news|title=For Release: Thursday, October 11, 1956|url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/42201956_press_releases_part2.pdf#page=60|access-date=May 29, 2018|work=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|date=October 11, 1956}} It was renamed Peck Playground in 1985 after Peck Avenue. In 1998 following a $400,000 renovation, it was named after New York Yankees player and broadcaster Phil Rizzuto and his catchphrase "Holy Cow!". Further renovations occurred in 1999 under the Giuliani administration.{{cite web|title=Holy Cow Playground|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/historical-signs/listings?id=13128?id=13128|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|access-date=May 28, 2018|date=February 19, 2002}}
• The playground features a paved softball field adjacent to the east of the school, and basketball and handball courts behind the school. It originally had a wading pool across from the softball field.

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Several bus routes of MTA Regional Bus Operations operate in the vicinity of Kissena Corridor Park. The {{NYC bus link|Q58}} bus route operates at the far west end of the park on College Point Boulevard, between Flushing Meadows–Corona Park to the west and the Queens Botanical Garden to the east. The route then crosses Flushing Meadows via the Long Island Expressway. The Q20A/B and Q44 Select Bus Service routes run on Main Street at west end of the park, serving the Queens Botanical Garden. The Q17, Q25 and Q34 routes operate on Kissena Boulevard between Kissena Corridor West and Kissena Park. The {{NYC bus link|Q65}} route travels through Kissena Park on 164th Street. The {{NYC bus link|Q31}} operates on Utopia Parkway through Kisenna Corridor East. The {{NYC bus link|Q30}} crosses the eastern park on Horace Harding Expressway (the Long Island Expressway service road) near Francis Lewis Boulevard, and also operates on Utopia Parkway south of the LIE. The {{NYC bus link|Q76}} operates north-to-south along Francis Lewis Boulevard at the far east end of the park near Cunningham Park. The part-time {{NYC bus link|Q26}} route, operating along Hollis Court Boulevard and 48th Avenue, terminates at Francis Lewis Boulevard and the Long Island Expressway just north of Kissena Corridor East. In additon, the {{NYC bus link|Q88}} route runs east-to-west on 73rd Avenue and Horace Harding Expressway just south of Kissena Corridor Park, serving Alley Pond Park, Cunningham Park, and Flushing Meadows–Corona Park along the park chain.{{cite web|title=MTA Neighborhood Maps: Flushing|url=http://web.mta.info/maps/neighborhoods/qns/Q4_Flushing_2015.pdf|website=mta.info|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|access-date=July 5, 2015|date=2015}}{{Cite NYC bus map|Q}}{{cite web |title=CityTicket Map with bus and subway connections |url=http://web.mta.info/mta/pdf/cityzone.pdf |publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority |access-date=June 6, 2018 |date=March 2013}}

The closest New York City Subway station to the park is Flushing–Main Street on Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Downtown Flushing, served by the {{NYCS Flushing}} trains. Long Island Rail Road service on the Port Washington Branch is available at the LIRR station of the same name farther south on Main Street at Kissena Boulevard and 41st Avenue. The Q17, Q20, Q25, Q26, Q34, Q44 SBS, Q58, and Q65 routes all connect to the stations.

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• [https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/59993.html Kissena Lake, NYDEC]

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[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/04/nyregion/neighborhood-report-davidson-goldin-putting-a-cap-on-a-toxic-error.html NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: DAVIDSON GOLDIN; Putting a Cap on a Toxic Error, NYTimes, 1994] - Pelham Bay Landfill

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[http://cityrecord.engineering.nyu.edu/data/1940/1940-12-04.pdf#page=8 City Planning Commission Master Plan: Express Highways, Parkways, and Major Streets], The City Record, Dec 1940

[https://books.google.com/books?id=wKMxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA296&dq=erie+freight+yard+%2223rd+Street%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiRy-u-7YLfAhVJooMKHQtgDjQQ6AEISzAG#v=onepage&q=%2223rd%20Street%22&f=false Report of the New York Rapid Transit Commissioners (IRT Construction)], Railroad Gazette, Sept 4, 1903

[https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/Q021/map/cunningham_park.pdf Cunningham Park Map]

[https://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/parks_divisions/nrg/documents/Ecological_Assessment_Cunningham_Park.pdf Cunningham 1988 Survey]

[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/15chol.html?searchResultPosition=73] - NYTimes, How Epidemics Helped Shape the Modern Metropolis

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=Chelsea Waterside Park / Thomas F. Smith Park=

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| type = Urban park

| location = West 23rd Street and 12th Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City

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| area = {{convert|2.5|acre|ha}}

| opened = {{start date|1906||}} (Thomas F. Smith Park)
{{start date|2000||}} (Chelsea Waterside Park, as part of Hudson River Park)

| status = Open

| operator = State of New York
City of New York
Hudson River Park Trust

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Chelsea Waterside Park, formerly Thomas F. Smith Park, is a public park located at West 23rd Street between 11th and 12th Avenues along the West Side Highway in Chelsea, Manhattan. It was originally operated by the City of New York under the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. It is currently part of the Chelsea section of Hudson River Park and managed by the Hudson River Park Trust.

The park was originally the site of a small freight yard for the Erie Railroad. In 1906, the railroad redeveloped the site into a park, as part of the reconstruction of the adjacent ferry terminal. In 1915, the park was taken over by the Parks Department, and was named for politician Thomas Francis Smith following his death in 1923. The construction of the West Side Elevated Highway in the early 1930s split the park into two adjacent sections.

Chelsea Waterside Park was designed in the late 1980s by architect Thomas Balsley. Half of the proposed park would be an expansion of the existing Smith Park, and the other half would be developed on the waterfront atop Piers 62, 63, and 64, with the two halves connected by a footbridge. The inland portion of Chelsea Waterside Park was constructed in the 1990s as a part of Hudson River Park during the redevelopment of the West Side Highway, and opened in 2000. The waterfront sections proposed for the park were completed in 2010 under a separate project. Between 2017 and 2023, major renovations took place in Chelsea Waterside Park, with a redesigned playground opening in 2018 and the remaining upgrades completed by 2023.

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Chelsea Waterside Park is located on a triangular two-block long site at the west end of 23rd Street. It is bound to the west by 12th Avenue (West Side Highway), to the east by 11th Avenue, to the south by West 22nd Street, and to the north by West 24th Street. The de-mapped western end of 23rd Street runs through the park as a pedestrian plaza, connecting to the rest of Hudson River Park via a crosswalk.{{cite web|title=MTA Neighborhood Maps: Chelsea|url=http://web.mta.info/maps/neighborhoods/mn/M06_Chelsea_2015.pdf|website=mta.info|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|access-date=December 11, 2015|date=2015}} The current park is {{convert|2.5|acre|ha}} in size.{{cite news |title=Playing is state of the art in Chelsea Waterside Park |url=http://thevillager.com/villager_105/playingisstateof.html |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=The Villager (Manhattan) |date=May 4, 2005}} The southern half of the park south of 23rd Street formed the original Thomas F. Smith Park, which was between {{convert|0.5|and|2|acre|ha}} large.

Located to the west of the park is the main right-of-way of Hudson River Park, which runs north-to-south between the West Side Highway and the Hudson River. Immediately across from Chelsea Waterside Park are the Chelsea Piers sports complex, and Piers 62, 63, and 64. Across 24th Street to the north is the United States Postal Service Manhattan Vehicles Maintenance Facility. To the east at 10th Avenue is the High Line. The park is located just south of the West Chelsea Historic District, which includes the landmarked Starrett–Lehigh Building.{{cite web|title=WEST CHELSEA HISTORIC DISTRICT Designation Report|url=http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/2008WestChelseaHistoricDistrict.pdf|publisher=WEST CHELSEA HISTORIC DISTRICT Designation Report New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|access-date=30 July 2017}} The park is located in the vicinity of the Chelsea-Elliot Houses and Fulton Houses housing projects, and the Penn South and London Terrace apartment complexes.{{cite news |last1=Malbin |first1=Peter |title=If You're Thinking of Living In/Chelsea; Strikingly Changed, But Still Diverse |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/16/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-of-living-in-chelsea-strikingly-changed-but-still-diverse.html |access-date=27 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=April 16, 2000}}

The 2000-built design of Chelsea Waterside Park was created by landscape architect Thomas Balsley during the reconstruction of the West Side Highway in the late 1980s and 1990s.{{cite news |last1=Papacosma |first1=Kathryn |title=Wet 'n' Wild in Chelsea |url=https://observer.com/2001/08/wet-n-wild-in-chelsea/ |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=The New York Observer |date=August 27, 2001}}{{cite web |title=Chelsea Waterside Park |url=https://www.world-architects.com/de/thomas-balsley-associates-new-york/project/chelsea-waterside-park |publisher=World-Architects |access-date=27 November 2018}} Balsley would later design renovations to Gantry Plaza State Park, Riverside Park South, and the East River Esplanade.{{cite web |title=Making Connections; Waterfront Alliance Annual Report: 2015-2016 |url=https://waterfrontalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Waterfront_Alliance_Annual_Report_2015-2016.pdf |publisher=Waterfront Alliance |access-date=27 November 2018 |date=2016}}{{cite web |title=East River Esplanade: History |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/east-river-esplanade_36-to-38/history |publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation |access-date=27 November 2018}} The park was reconstructed between 2017 and 2023, with Phase I of the renovations designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, and Phase II designed by the Abel Bainnson Butz (ABB) and CDR Studio Architects firms. As designed by Balsley, Chelsea Waterside Park contains walls and benches constructed of granite in order to resemble 19th Century coastal bulkheads, as a reference to the area's historical use as a marine port.

The pedestrian plaza along 23rd Street was originally constructed as a straight-path promenade between 11th and 12th Avenues, intended as a gateway to the main Hudson River Park along the river.{{rp|41−42, 48−51}}{{cite news |title=Construction Begins at Chelsea Waterside Park, Phase 2 Manhattan |url=https://www.abbnyc.com/chelsea-waterside-park |access-date=15 August 2023 |work=Abel Bainnson Butz |date=October 2021 |location=Manhattan}} The Phase II renovations by ABB reimagined the promenade as the "central area", replacing the straight path with two curved paths surrounding a central lawn. Within the lawn is a picnic area with "festive lights" hanging above for nighttime use.{{cite web |title=Construction is underway to renew #HRPK’s Chelsea Waterside Park... |url=https://www.facebook.com/HudsonRiverPark/photos/a.10150699329520128/10165710208595128/?type=3 |website=Facebook |publisher=Hudson River Park |access-date=30 August 2023 |date=October 29, 2021}}{{cite news |last1=Salkaln |first1=Donathan |title=Hudson River Park Plans in Play, in Pandemic Era and Beyond |url=https://chelseacommunitynews.com/2021/02/19/hudson-river-park-plans-in-play-in-pandemic-era-and-beyond/ |access-date=15 August 2023 |work=Chelsea Community News |date=February 19, 2021}} In Balsley's original park plans, a landscaped or terraced footbridge called a "platform park" would have run above the highway from the pedestrian plaza towards the shorefront sections of Hudson River Park.

At the north end of the park are an artificial turf athletic field used for soccer and other sports, and a basketball court. The turf field measures {{convert|32|yd}} by {{convert|60|yd}}. Both the athletic field and the basketball court have lights for nighttime use.{{cite book|author1=Robin Lynn|author2=Francis Morrone|title=Guide to New York City Urban Landscapes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CaH3_7T9J4UC&pg=PA74|access-date=27 November 2018|date=5 August 2013|publisher=W. W. Norton|isbn=978-0-393-73395-2|pages=73–74}}{{cite web |title=Hudson River Park Venue Guide |url=https://hudsonriverpark.org/assets/content/general/2012VenuePkg.pdf |publisher=Hudson River Park |access-date=27 November 2018 |date=2012}} Next to the athletic field at the northwest corner of the park is a smaller elevated sitting area known as the "sunset overlook".{{cite news |last1=Gibbons |first1=Haeven |title=Chelsea Waterside Park is under renovation. Here’s what the new park will offer its guests |url=https://www.amny.com/news/chelsea-waterside-park-is-under-renovation-heres-what-the-new-park-will-offer-its-guests/ |access-date=15 August 2023 |work=AM New York Metro |date=October 18, 2021}}{{cite web |title=Chelsea Waterside Park Phase II |url=https://dackconsulting.com/portfolio-item/chelsea-waterside-park-phase-ii/ |publisher=DACK Consulting |access-date=15 August 2023}}

At the south end of the park is the dog run. As built in 2000, it was {{convert|3,500|ft2|m2}} in size.{{cite news |last1=Ginsburg |first1=Aaron |title=Chelsea Waterside Park reopens after $15.2M overhaul |url=https://www.6sqft.com/chelsea-waterside-park-reopens-after-15-2m-overhaul/ |access-date=30 August 2023 |work=6sqft |date=June 19, 2023}} It features an asphalt surface designed to remain at low temperature, a drinking stream, and three or four {{convert|3|ft|m|adj=on}} tall mounds and a {{convert|24|ft|m|adj=on}} long "fallen tree" sculpture for dogs to interact with.{{cite news |last1=Iovine |first1=Julie V. |title=CURRENTS: IN CHELSEA; 1 Dog Run, 3 Mounds, Many, Many Opinions |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/26/garden/currents-in-chelsea-1-dog-run-3-mounds-many-many-opinions.html |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=August 26, 1999}}{{cite news |last1=Sacks |first1=Amy |title=Slew of dog runs make 'staycations' for dogs a walk in the park |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/slew-dog-runs-staycations-dogs-walk-park-article-1.315581 |access-date=27 November 2018 |work=New York Daily News |date=August 8, 2008}} The dog run was named "Best of New York" by New York Magazine in May 2005.{{cite web |title=Hudson River Park News Summer 2007; The Changing Face of New York: Your Hudson River Park |url=https://hudsonriverpark.org/assets/content/general/Summer2007News.pdf |publisher=Hudson River Park |access-date=26 November 2018 |date=Summer 2007}}{{cite web|last1=Malkin|first1=Marc S.|title=Best of New York - Dog Run|url=http://nymag.com/nymetro/bony/n_8964/|website=nymag.com|publisher=New York Magazine|access-date=June 3, 2015|date=July 21, 2003}} The Phase II renovations enlarged the dog run to {{convert|7,400|ft2|m2}}, splitting it into "small dogs" and "large dogs" sections. The original Thomas F. Smith Park also featured a dog run.{{cite news |last1=McKinley |first1=Jesse |title=Dog Run Culture |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/15/nyregion/dog-run-culture.html |access-date=26 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=October 15, 1995}}{{cite news |title=Pets; Open Spaces For City Dogs To Run Wild |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/24/nyregion/pets-open-spaces-for-city-dogs-to-run-wild.html |access-date=26 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=March 24, 1996}}

As constructed in 2000, the park contained portable toilets in lieu of a comfort station.{{cite news |last1=Egan |first1=Sean |title=Waterside Park Group Covers Lots of Ground |url=https://www.amny.com/news/waterside-park-group-covers-lots-of-ground/ |access-date=5 December 2018 |work=Chelsea Now |date=April 27, 2016}} The Phase II renovations added a comfort station along the central area, doubling as a gatehouse into the athletic field. Designed by CDR Studio Architects, the building's facade utilizes granite and wood salvaged from the park's original walls and benches. Solar panels were also installed atop the roof of the building.{{cite news |last1=Frishberg |first1=Hannah |title=Chelsea park reopens after $15.2M renovation |url=https://nypost.com/2023/06/15/chelsea-park-reopens-after-15m-renovation/ |access-date=15 August 2023 |work=New York Post |date=June 15, 2023}}{{cite news |last1=Izzo |first1=Christina |title=Chelsea Waterside Park reopens after $15.2 million makeover |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/chelsea-waterside-park-reopens-after-15-2-million-makeover-061623 |access-date=15 August 2023 |work=Time Out (magazine) |date=June 16, 2023}} The comfort station was placed as such to connect with the sewer line running underneath 23rd Street.

At the northeast corner of the park is its playground, called the Chelsea Waterside Play Area. The playground is {{convert|17000|ft2|m2}} in size. From October 2017 to August 2018, the play area underwent an 11-month $3.4 million renovation, designed by the Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and MONSTRUM firms. The Michael Van Valkenburgh firm also redesigned the nearby Piers 62, 63, and 64, as well as Brooklyn Bridge Park. In its current iteration, the playground's central feature is the "Pipefish Tower" created by MONSTRUM. It consists of a multi-colored {{convert|64|ft|m|adj=on}} long pipefish-shaped climbing feature, surrounding a large slide rising {{convert|22|ft|m}} high.{{cite news |last1=Plitt |first1=Amy |title=Hudson River Park playground makeover nods to neighborhood's past: Chelsea Waterside Park's playground has fun elements that take inspiration from the Hudson River |url=https://ny.curbed.com/2018/8/16/17701710/new-york-hudson-river-park-playground-renovation |access-date=27 November 2018 |work=Curbed New York |date=August 16, 2018}}{{cite news |title=Chelsea Waterside Play Area's Dynamic Redesign |url=https://hudsonriverpark.org/news-and-updates/chelsea-waterside-play-areas-dynamic-redesign |access-date=27 November 2018 |work=Hudson River Park |date=February 3, 2017}}{{cite web |title=The Pipefish |url=https://monstrum.dk/en/playground/pipefish |publisher=Monstrum ApS |access-date=27 November 2018}} The pipefish is one of the aquatic species native to the Hudson River. The pipefish sculpture is constructed of Robinia wood,{{cite news |title=The New Chelsea Waterside Park Play Area is Open...and It's Awesome! |url=https://hudsonriverpark.org/news-and-updates/the-new-chelsea-waterside-park-play-area-is-open-and-its-awesome |access-date=27 November 2018 |work=Hudson River Park |date=August 22, 2018}} and consists of a seahorse's head and a serpent's body. The slide's towers, meanwhile, are designed to resemble tree trunks. At the north end of the playground is a small splash pad called the "water maze", featuring several sprinklers. A toddler water play area is situated at the southeast corner of the play area. At the southwest corner is the "Mussel Houses", a sandbox featuring mussel or oyster-shaped sculptures. At the northwest corner of the playground is a "Donor Recognition Wall", featuring the names of major benefactors to the park's renovation.{{cite web |title=Chelsea Waterside Play Area Capital Campaign: December 2016 |url=https://hudsonriverpark.org/assets/content/general/CWCC_Deck.pdf |publisher=Friends of Hudson River Park |access-date=26 November 2018 |date=December 2016}}

The Phase II renovations to the park added a stroller parking area at the south end of the playground.

Located in the play area integrated with its sprinklers are two limestone sculptures of cattle heads. The sculptures were originally architectural features of the New York Butchers' Dressed Meat Company building, a Neo-Renaissance-style slaughterhouse that was located in Hell's Kitchen.{{cite news |last1=Gray |first1=Christopher |title=STREETSCAPES: THE NEW YORK BUTCHERS' DRESSED MEAT COMPANY; A Building Long Past Its Prime On a Choice Site for Offices |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/14/realestate/streetscapes-new-york-butchers-dressed-meat-company-building-long-past-its-prime.html |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=June 14, 1987}} The building was demolished in 1991, after which the sculptures were preserved by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.{{rp|12}} The two cow sculptures along with two sculptures of ram's heads were purchased by the Hudson River Park Trust at auction in 2012.{{cite news |last1=Margolies |first1=Jane |title=Git Along, Little Dogies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/nyregion/git-along-little-dogies.html?module=inline |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=March 28, 2014}} The cattle sculptures were added to the park during the 2018 renovations.{{cite web |title=Chelsea Waterside Play Area |url=https://hudsonriverpark.org/explore-the-park/activities/chelsea-waterside-play-area |publisher=Hudson River Park |access-date=25 November 2018}} The ram sculptures were given to DeWitt Clinton Park in Hell's Kitchen.

In addition to the cattle sculptures, Art Deco ornamental features of the former West Side Elevated Highway are also integrated into the playground. Theses are wing-shaped and made of granite. The highway formerly ran through the original Thomas F. Smith Park. Seating furniture, meanwhile, was created from the former granite arch of Pier 54, also part of Hudson River Park.

One of the features retained from the original Thomas F. Smith Park is a {{convert|7|ft|m|adj=on}} granite monument to Smith, located on 23rd Street at the eastern entrance to the park. It's inscription reads "In Memory Of Hon. Thomas F. Smith, Born 1863−Died 1923, Erected by the Seymour Club of Chelsea Neighborhood".{{rp|4-5}} The Horatio Seymour Democratic Club, also called the Seymour Tammany Club, was a Tammany Hall political club headquartered in Chelsea.{{cite news |last1=Amateau |first1=Albert |title=Robert Healy, 67, font of local political history |url=http://thevillager.com/villager_319/roberthealy67.html |access-date=29 November 2018 |work=The Villager (Manhattan) |date=June 10, 2009}}{{cite book|author=Caro, Robert A.|title=The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r9WMDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA117|year=1974|publisher=Knopf|isbn=978-0-394-48076-3|pages=117}}{{cite book |last1=Kilroe |first1=Edwin P. |last2=Kaplan |first2=Abraham |last3=Johnson |first3=Joseph |title=Tammany: A Patriotic History |date=June 1924 |publisher=The New York County Democratic Committee, Tammany Hall |location=New York City |page=94 |url=https://archive.org/details/storyoftammany00kilr/page/94 |access-date=29 November 2018}}{{cite book|author=Peter Ross|title=A History of Long Island: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnxRDLKNCQkC&pg=PA339|access-date=29 November 2018|year=1902|publisher=Lewis publishing Company|page=339}} Similar monuments also erected by the Seymour Club are featured in nearby Chelsea Park.{{cite web |title=Chelsea Park: William L. Kavanagh |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/chelsea-park/monuments/841 |publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation |access-date=29 November 2018}}

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The park is directly served by the {{NYC bus link|M12}} local bus route and the M23 Select Bus Service route. The M12 operates between Abingdon Square Park and Columbus Circle along 11th and 12th Avenues. The M23 SBS operates crosstown along 23rd Street, with its western terminus at Chelsea Piers across from Chelsea Waterside Park.{{Cite NYC bus map|M}} The closest New York City Subway station is the 23rd Street station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line, served by the {{NYCS trains|Eighth south local header}}.

File:Erie ferry Terminal, New York.jpg ferry terminal at West 23rd Street circa 1900.]]

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In May 1868, the Erie Railroad began operating the Pavonia Ferry route between the 23rd Street Ferry on the Hudson River at the west end of 23rd Street, and Jersey City.{{cite web |last1=Saunders Kirkorian |first1=Cece |last2=Kearns |first2=Betsy |last3=Schneiderman-Fox |first3=Faline |title=Existing Conditions Report: Archaeological Resources; Hudson River Park Project; Little West 12th Street to West 24th Street; Manhattan, New York |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/arch_reports/412.pdf |publisher=Historical Perspectives Inc., Allee King Rosen and Fleming, Inc. |access-date=3 December 2018 |date=December 12, 1994}}{{rp|VI-7}}{{cite journal |last1=Blaikie |first1=Cameron, Jr. |title=28th Street Station, New York |journal=Erie Railroad Magazine |date=October 1948 |volume=44 |issue=8 |pages=6–8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m4szAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA6-PA7 |access-date=3 December 2018}}{{cite book|author=Arthur G. Adams|title=The Hudson Through the Years|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=As5tyLSVC5wC&pg=PA159|access-date=2 December 2018|year=1996|publisher=Fordham Univ Press|isbn=978-0-8232-1677-2|pages=159–}}{{cite book |last1=Baxter |first1=Raymond J. |last2=Adams |first2=Arthur G. |title=Railroad Ferries of the Hudson |year=1999 |publisher=Fordham University Press |location=New York |isbn=0-8232-1954-2 |page=65}} In 1893 the company, now operating as the New York, Lake Erie & Western, constructed a car float bridge on the south side of the ferry terminal. They also created a small freight yard on the block across from the terminal, between 22nd and 23rd Streets and between 11th and 12th Avenues. The dimensions of the rail yard were {{convert|380|ft|m}} by {{convert|200|ft|m}}. As the turn of the century approached, the railroad considered expanding the yard to the next block east, in order to accommodate newer and larger boxcars. In April 1901, the Erie Railroad purchased a site for a new freight yard between 28th and 29th Streets, across from the existing yard of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. In 1902, the company began negotiations with the city to develop a new freight yard on this property.{{cite news |title=Erie Road's New Freight Yard |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1901/04/10/archives/baltimore-ohio-equipment.html |access-date=3 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=April 10, 1901 |page=2}}{{cite web |title=Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Erie Railroad Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TNw7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA17 |publisher=Erie Railroad |access-date=3 December 2018 |location=New York |page=17 |date=June 30, 1902}}{{cite book|title=The Statist: A Journal of Practical Finance and Trade|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSVHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA728|access-date=3 December 2018|date=October 25, 1902|publisher=Published at "The Statist" Office|page=728}} The new freight yard, known as the 28th Street Freight House, was opened on September 1, 1904,{{cite news |title=Big New Freight House for the Erie |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252023%2FCohocton%2520NY%2520Times%2520Index%2FCohocton%2520NY%2520Times%2520Index%25201904-1906%2FCohocton%2520NY%2520Times%2520Index%25201904-1906%2520-%25200156.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D6817327c%26DocId%3D1684306%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520S%26HitCount%3D14%26hits%3D2ea%2B2eb%2B45a%2B45b%2B460%2B461%2B4b8%2B4b9%2B690%2B691%2B776%2B777%2B7ad%2B7ae%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252023%2FCohocton%2520NY%2520Times%2520Index%2FCohocton%2520NY%2520Times%2520Index%25201904-1906%2FCohocton%2520NY%2520Times%2520Index%25201904-1906%2520-%25200156.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D6817327c%26DocId%3D1684306%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520S%26HitCount%3D14%26hits%3D2ea%2B2eb%2B45a%2B45b%2B460%2B461%2B4b8%2B4b9%2B690%2B691%2B776%2B777%2B7ad%2B7ae%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=3 December 2018 |work=Cohocton Times |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=1904}} after which the yard at 23rd Street was abandoned.

Meanwhile the Pennsylvania Railroad also opened a ferry terminal located between 23rd and 24th Streets in 1897, while the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and the Central Railroad of New Jersey opened adjacent terminals around 1905.{{rp|VI-7−VI-8}}{{cite web |title=Part I of the West Side Highway Cultural Resource Survey Archaeological Work Program: Cultural Resources Reaserch |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/arch_reports/368.pdf#page=343 |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation, Historic Conservation and Interpretation, Inc. |access-date=8 December 2018 |date=June 1983}}{{rp|356}} In 1906, the original Erie ferry terminal was demolished and a new ferry house was constructed.{{cite news |title=An Historic Ferry; Old Erie Ferry House is Torn Down |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252023%2FJamestown%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Journal%2FJamestown%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Journal%25201906%2FJamestown%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Journal%25201906%2520-%25201659.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D1cdacf5%26DocId%3D3319185%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520S%26HitCount%3D17%26hits%3D50e%2B705%2B78b%2B7c6%2B7ca%2B841%2B864%2B991%2B9c8%2Bac8%2Baef%2Baf0%2Baf1%2Bb08%2Bb57%2Bb87%2Bb88%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252023%2FJamestown%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Journal%2FJamestown%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Journal%25201906%2FJamestown%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Journal%25201906%2520-%25201659.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D1cdacf5%26DocId%3D3319185%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520S%26HitCount%3D17%26hits%3D50e%2B705%2B78b%2B7c6%2B7ca%2B841%2B864%2B991%2B9c8%2Bac8%2Baef%2Baf0%2Baf1%2Bb08%2Bb57%2Bb87%2Bb88%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=3 December 2018 |work=Jamestown Evening Journal |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=July 7, 1906 |page=3}} As part of the project, a park was constructed on the former Erie freight yard; this was the predecessor to Thomas F. Smith Park.{{rp|VI-8}} The park was used as a common plaza for all the ferry terminals in the area as well as Chelsea Piers.{{rp|VI-8}}{{rp|358}}

The park was acquired by the New York City Department of Docks in 1907.{{cite web |title=Chelsea Waterside Park |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/historical-signs/listings?id=11969 |publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation |access-date=24 November 2018}}{{cite book|title=Route 9A Reconstruction Project: Final Environmental Impact Statement; Design Report / Section 4(F) Statement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ta41AQAAMAAJ&pg=SA21-PA23|access-date=24 November 2018|date=May 1993|author=Allee King Rosen and Fleming, Inc.|publisher=New York State Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, United States Department of Transportation|pages=}}{{rp|VI-8}} By 1911, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation maintained the park, though it remained under the Department of Dock's jurisdiction.{{Cite web |url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4027annual_report_nyc_dept_parks_1911.pdf |title=1911 New York City Department of Public Parks Annual Report |last= |first= |date=1911 |website=nyc.gov |publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|access-date=January 13, 2017 }}{{rp|52}} The site was transferred from the Department of Docks to the Parks Department in 1915, along with eight "recreation piers".nyc.gov |publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|access-date=December 2, 2018 }}{{rp|51, 85, 109, 117}} On April 11, 1923, then-city Public Secretary Thomas Francis Smith was struck and killed by a taxicab.{{cite news |title=Memorial Services for Thomas F. Smith |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Standard%2520Union%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Standard%2520Union%25201924%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Standard%2520Union%25201924%2520-%25204955.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D6dccaf70%26DocId%3D4667923%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D7%26hits%3Daff%2B17d8%2B17d9%2B17da%2B17e9%2B17ea%2B17eb%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Standard%2520Union%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Standard%2520Union%25201924%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Standard%2520Union%25201924%2520-%25204955.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D6dccaf70%26DocId%3D4667923%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D7%26hits%3Daff%2B17d8%2B17d9%2B17da%2B17e9%2B17ea%2B17eb%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=5 December 2018 |work=Brooklyn Standard Union |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=April 8, 1924 |page=14}} Shortly afterwards, the New York City Board of Aldermen named the parkland after Smith.{{rp|22-4}} The parks amenities at the time consisted of benches and trees.{{rp|22-4}}

The West Side Elevated Highway, also know as the Miller Highway, was completed from Canal Street to the foot of Smith Park at 23rd Street in late 1930.{{cite news |title=Elevated Highway from Canal to Twenty-Third Street; "L" Highway Pushed: West Side Improvement May Be Finished in Month |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252018%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%25201930%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%25201930%2520-%25207470.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D645a22a4%26DocId%3D3173112%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26HitCount%3D4%26hits%3D587%2B588%2B589%2B58a%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252018%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%25201930%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%25201930%2520-%25207470.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D645a22a4%26DocId%3D3173112%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26HitCount%3D4%26hits%3D587%2B588%2B589%2B58a%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=26 November 2018 |work=The Sun (New York City) |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=October 10, 1930 |page=20}}{{cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1930/11/14/archives/express-road-unit-opened-by-miller-route-of-express-highway-and.html |title = Express Road Unit Opened by Miller: Route of Express Highway and Scenes at Opening of First Section Yesterday |date = November 14, 1930 |work = The New York Times |access-date = September 12, 2017 |issn = 0362-4331 }} In 1932, construction began on an extension of the highway between 22nd Street and 38th Street.{{cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1932/06/21/archives/west-side-drive-pressed-work-is-started-on-second-section-of.html |title = West Side Drive Pressed: Work Is Started on Second Section of Express Highway |date = June 21, 1932 |work = The New York Times |access-date = September 12, 2017 |issn = 0362-4331 }}{{cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1932/06/20/archives/begins-2d-link-today-on-west-side-drive-levy-will-set-in-place.html |title = Begins 2D Link Today on West Side Drive: Levy Will Set in Place First Girder on Section Between 22d and 38th Streets |date = June 20, 1932 |work = The New York Times |access-date = September 12, 2017 |issn = 0362-4331 }} This section of the highway opened on January 5, 1933.{{cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1933/01/06/archives/new-highway-link-opened-by-obrien-he-voices-hope-finances-will-soon.html |title = New Highway Link Opened by O'Brien: He Voices Hope Finances Will Soon Permit Further Building Up of 'Our Imperial City' |date = 1933 |work = The New York Times |access-date = September 12, 2017 |issn = 0362-4331 }} The highway formed an "S"-curve at 23rd Street, where the right-of-way shifted west from 11th Avenue onto 12th Avenue. Because of this, Thomas F. Smith Park was split diagonally into two triangular sections by the highway trestle. The space underneath the elevated highway, meanwhile, was used for parking and storage.{{rp|22-4}}{{cite book|title=West Side Highway Project: Environmental Impact Statement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G4A2AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA13|access-date=25 November 2018|date=April 25, 1974|publisher=United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, New York State Department of Transportation}}{{rp|119−120}}

During the construction of the highway, the Twenty-third Street Association petitioned Manhattan Borough President Samuel Levy to build a replacement for Thomas F. Smith Park.{{cite news |title=Urges Park on West Side: Twenty-third St. Association Files Plea With City |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252011%2FNew%2520York%2520Evening%2520Post%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Post%25201930%2520Grayscale%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Post%25201930%2520Grayscale%2520-%25207084.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa9abe33b%26DocId%3D5487259%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D157f%2B1580%2B1581%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252011%2FNew%2520York%2520Evening%2520Post%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Post%25201930%2520Grayscale%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Post%25201930%2520Grayscale%2520-%25207084.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa9abe33b%26DocId%3D5487259%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D157f%2B1580%2B1581%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=26 November 2018 |work=New York Evening Post |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=October 10, 1930 |page=9}}{{cite news |title=West Side Seeks Park |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252011%2FNew%2520York%2520Evening%2520Post%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Post%25201931%2520Grayscale%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Post%25201931%2520Grayscale%2520-%25204976.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffb0782f7c%26DocId%3D5494308%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D739%2B73a%2B73b%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252011%2FNew%2520York%2520Evening%2520Post%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Post%25201931%2520Grayscale%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Post%25201931%2520Grayscale%2520-%25204976.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffb0782f7c%26DocId%3D5494308%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D739%2B73a%2B73b%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=26 November 2018 |work=New York Evening Post |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=July 17, 1931 |page=17}} On October 15, 1931 Levy promised that a new West Side park would be created to replace Smith Park.{{cite news |title=New West Side Park: Borough President Levy Promises One for 23d Street Section |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252011%2FNew%2520York%2520Evening%2520Post%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Post%25201931%2520Grayscale%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Post%25201931%2520Grayscale%2520-%25207182.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffb298cf4f%26DocId%3D5496514%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D1c7e%2B1c7f%2B1c80%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252011%2FNew%2520York%2520Evening%2520Post%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Post%25201931%2520Grayscale%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Evening%2520Post%25201931%2520Grayscale%2520-%25207182.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffb298cf4f%26DocId%3D5496514%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D1c7e%2B1c7f%2B1c80%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=26 November 2018 |work=New York Evening Post |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=October 16, 1931 |page=30}}

Thomas F. Smith Park was officially dedicated and opened on June 26, 1936.{{cite news |title=For Immediate Release |url=http://kermitproject.org/newdeal/pdf/1936.html#1936/06/25 |access-date=27 November 2018 |work=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation |date=June 25, 1936 |quote=The Department of Parks will open eleven new playgrounds Friday, June 26th, making a total of 168 playgrounds added to the recreational system of the Park Department since January 1934.}} At the time, the property was assessed at $1,000,000. In December 1936, the Parks Department proposed renovations to the park, which would add recreational facilities. These new facilities would include benches, water fountains, swings, horseshoe pits, handball courts, and shuffleboard courts, along with new landscaping work. An underpass would be constructed in order to connect the two separate halves of the park. Only a portion of the proposed upgrades were implemented.{{rp|22-4}}{{rp|6}}{{rp|31}}

From 1951 until 1975, the southern section of the park was used by the United States Bureau of Customs for a large customs scale.{{rp|4-5}} Between 1970 and August 1973, the park was closed and used as storage space for the construction of the West Side interceptor sewer. Afterwards, the sewer construction firm renovated the park, which reopened in early 1974.{{rp|4-5}} At this time, the park was primarily used by workers in the industrial areas along the Chelsea waterfront.{{rp|4-5}}

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On December 15, 1973, a section of the West Side Elevated Highway at Gansevoort Street south of 14th Street collapsed under the weight of a dump truck, which was carrying asphalt for repairs to the highway. At the time, much of the highway was in disrepair and considered unsafe; in particular, the S-curve at 23rd Street was deemed dangerous. Afterwards, in January 1974 the highway was closed between Battery Park and 46th Street.{{rp|10, 119−123, 147−148}}{{rp|2-4−2-5}}{{cite news |title = Truck and Car Fall as West Side Highway Collapses |newspaper = The New York Times |date = December 16, 1973 |quote = A section of the West Side Highway collapsed yesterday under the weight of a dump truck and a passenger car, both of which fell to the street below. ... |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/16/archives/truck-and-car-fall-as-west-side-highway-collapses.html }}{{cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/17/archives/indefinite-closing-is-set-for-west-side-highway-northbound-road.html |title = Indefinite Closing Is Set or West Side Highway |last = Perlmutter |first = Emanuel |date = December 17, 1973 |work = The New York Times |access-date = September 12, 2017 |issn = 0362-4331 }} That year, the federal government and the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) released a study known as the West Side Highway Project to explore replacement options for the highway.

As a result of the study, in April 1974 the City of New York announced the Westway plan, which would construct a new six-lane underground highway (Interstate 478) along the west side of Manhattan between the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and the Lincoln Tunnel. The existing Hudson River piers would be demolished and the right-of-way would be landfilled, with the highway tunnel placed within the new land. The inland West Side Highway route (Route 9A, a.k.a. West Street and 12th Avenue) would be redeveloped as a four-to-six lane surface boulevard. This was a revised version of the "Outboard Alternative" in the West Side Highway Project study.{{rp|10, 134−157, 181}}New York State DOT and FHWA, [https://books.google.com/books?id=I7w1AQAAMAAJ& "West Side Highway Project Final Environmental Impact Statement,"] June 4, 1977.{{rp|3, 21−22, 28−34}}{{cite web |title=West Side Highway Project: Project Report |url=https://ia804500.us.archive.org/15/items/westsidehighwayp00unse/westsidehighwayp00unse.pdf |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation |access-date=17 August 2023 |date=1974}}{{rp|S-1−S-4}}{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam |title=For Stalled Westway, a Time of Decision |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/05/nyregion/for-stalled-westway-a-time-of-decision.html |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=June 5, 1984}} The Westway plan evolved from the 1971 "Wateredge Study" by the state Urban Development Corporation, which sought to build the new Interstate along the Hudson River coastline, either atop pilings above the river, at grade, or in a tunnel.{{cite news |last1=Weingroff |first1=Richard F. |title=A Moment in Time: President Ronald Reagan Launches Construction of Westway |url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/moment/westway.cfm |access-date=15 August 2023 |work=Federal Highway Administration |date=April 12, 2019}}Peter Blake, [https://books.google.com/books?id=-MQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=Water+Edge+Study+udc&source=bl&ots=Um8cyideBr&sig=nxXzcRra6gVyFzEuQY2QVylW2-g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8xZCowfXRAhXBLyYKHacNC08Q6AEIHDAA "The City Politic: Ratensky's Raiders,"] New York Magazine, July 5, 1971. As part of the Westway plan, {{convert|92.96|acre|ha}} of continuous parkland would be created along the Hudson River above the proposed highway tunnel, which would serve the increasing residential population in the area. The conversion of the West Side Highway into a surface boulevard would further improve pedestrian access to the waterfront.{{rp|144, 146, 155−159, 4-5−4-8}}

The outboard Westway plan was approved by the Federal Highway Administration on July 26, 1977.{{cite book|title=Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement: Westside Highway Project; Volume I - Non-Fisheries Portion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MLw1AQAAMAAJ&pg=SL22-PA91|access-date=8 December 2018|date=November 1984|publisher=Federal Highway Administration, United States Army Corps of Engineers}}{{rp|iii-1}} The West Side Highway Project included plans for a "community-oriented park" at the site of Thomas F. Smith Park at 23rd Street.{{rp|31, 150, 4-5−4-8, 4-13}} The 1977 plan would create a new park atop the landfill on the Hudson River shore, {{convert|5.63|acre|ha}} in size, while the existing structures at Chelsea Piers would be demolished. The elevated highway trestle would be removed from the existing Smith Park to restore it as one continuous site.{{rp|177, 4(f)-10−4(f)-19}}{{rp|150, 4-5−4-8, 4-13−4-14}}

The Westway project was abandoned in 1985 due to political opposition and environmental issues, including concerns over the striped bass population in the Hudson River.{{rp|6}}{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam |title=After 20 Years of Delays, a River Park Takes Shape |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/nyregion/16westway.html?pagewanted=all |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=30 March 2015 |date=May 16, 2006}}{{cite web |last1=Amateau |first1=Albert |title=Why Westway sleeps with the fishes |url=http://thevillager.com/villager_59/whywestwaysleepswith.html |website=thevillager.com |publisher=The Villager |access-date=2 June 2015 |date=June 16, 2004}}{{cite news |last=Oresekes |first=Michael |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/19/nyregion/moynihan-sees-no-way-to-win-a-westway-vote.html |title=Moynihan Sees No Way to Win a Westway Vote |work=The New York Times |date=September 19, 1985}}

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After the collapse of the elevated highway, beginning in 1977 the trestle was demolished. The remaining grade-level West Side Highway continued to travel through Smith Park. The park property was ceded to the NYSDOT on February 9, 1982 in preparation for the construction of the Westway.

The Chelsea Waterside Park Association was founded in 1985.{{cite news |last1=Nimar |first1=Mark |title=Chelsea Waterside Park Assoc. Highlights Hudson, History |url=https://chelseacommunitynews.com/2019/05/29/chelsea-waterside-park-assoc-highlights-hudson-history/ |access-date=15 August 2023 |work=Chelsea Community News |date=May 29, 2019}} Following the cancellation of the Westway plan, in February 1986 the association launched a campaign to create additional parkland in the neighborhood. The association proposed a two-block long park along the Hudson River between 22nd and 24th Streets.{{cite news |last1=Fulman |first1=Ricki |title=Eye Chelsea park, promenade: Residents meet Friday in waterside goal bid |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/487604983/ |access-date=7 December 2018 |work=New York Daily News |date=February 24, 1986}} That year, the association contracted landscape architect Thomas Balsley to create the design for a new stretch of waterfront park along the new West Side Highway, similar to that proposed under the Westway project.{{rp|22-19}}{{cite news |last1=Uppman |first1=Barbara |title=Chelsea to get park: It's in state and city plans to replace old W. Side Highway |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/491057973/ |access-date=4 December 2018 |work=New York Daily News |date=September 23, 1987 |page=105}} Balsley and the association proposed a new park at 23rd Street, on the site of the existing Thomas F. Smith Park. The park would extend north to 24th Street, and west to the Hudson River shoreline.{{rp|40−51}}{{cite web |title=The History of Chelsea Waterside Park |url=http://cwpark.org/cwpa-its-history |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813195326/http://cwpark.org/cwpa-its-history|archive-date=2020-08-13|url-status=dead|publisher=Chelsea Waterside Park Association |access-date=27 November 2018|last=Salkain|first=Donathan}} A pedestrian bridge over the new West Side Highway called a "platform park" would connect the inland park to the shoreline and Piers 62, 63, and 64.

In 1986, then-Governor Mario Cuomo created the West Side Task Force, a 22-person panel to propose and evaluate redevelopment plans for the West Side Highway. Members of the panel included future New York City Mayor David Dinkins, and businessman Arthur Levitt.{{rp|4−7}}{{cite news |last1=Douglas |first1=Carlyle C. |last2=Connelly |first2=Mary |title=THE REGION; Task Force Plans Heir to Westway |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/23/weekinreview/the-region-task-force-plans-heir-to-westway.html |access-date=17 August 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=November 23, 1986}}{{cite news |title=FINAL HEARING ON WEST SIDE ROAD SHOWS SHARP DIVISIONS OVER PLAN |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/18/nyregion/final-hearing-on-west-side-road-shows-sharp-divisions-over-plan.html |access-date=17 August 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=December 18, 1986 |page=B30}}{{cite news |last1=Fox |first1=Tom |title=David Dinkins was a founding father of Hudson River Park |url=https://thevillagesun.com/david-dinkins-was-a-founding-father-of-hudson-river-park |access-date=17 August 2023 |work=The Village Sun |date=November 30, 2020}} In January 1987, the panel recommended a six-lane boulevard, and a waterfront park to be constructed integrating some of the existing piers. At the time, the park was to extend from Battery Park to 42nd Street.{{rp|4−7}} Within the proposal was a plan to straighten the curve of the road at 23rd Street. This would require the demolition of a portion of Thomas F. Smith Park, while a replacement park would be constructed.{{cite news |last1=Goldberger |first1=Paul |title=Westway Options: Sense of Restraint |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/26/nyregion/an-appraisal-westway-options-sense-of-restraint.html |access-date=8 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=August 26, 1986}}

On May 25, 1988, a memorandum between then-Governor Cuomo and then-Mayor Ed Koch established the West Side Waterfront Panel, which was tasked to create plans for the development of the West Side Highway right-of-way and the adjacent Hudson River coastline.{{cite web |title=A Vision for the Hudson River Waterfront Park: Recommendations of the West Side Waterfront Panel; A Report to Governor Mario M. Cuomo & Mayor David N. Dinkins |url=http://tomfoxassociates.com/content/uploads/2014/05/West-Side-Waterfront-Panel-Recommendations-1990.pdf |publisher=West Side Waterfront Panel |access-date=3 December 2018 |date=November 1, 1990|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203221916/http://tomfoxassociates.com/content/uploads/2014/05/West-Side-Waterfront-Panel-Recommendations-1990.pdf|archive-date=2018-12-03|url-status=dead}}{{rp|4−7}} In fall 1990, the panel released a report recommending the creation of the Hudson River Waterfront Park, a {{convert|270|acre|ha|adj=on}} park which would stretch from Battery Park north to 59th Street.{{cite news |last1=Hays |first1=Constance L. |title=Panel Unveils Plan for Park Along Hudson Waterfront |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/18/nyregion/panel-unveils-plan-for-park-along-hudson-waterfront.html |access-date=3 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=September 18, 1990}}{{cite news |last1=Dunlap |first1=David W. |title=Post-Westway Plan Offered By Panel for Hudson Shore |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/01/nyregion/post-westway-plan-offered-by-panel-for-hudson-shore.html |access-date=3 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=November 1, 1989}} The park would include a {{convert|4|mi|adj=on}} long landscaped esplanade featuring a cycleway and pedestrian walkway along the riverfront.{{rp|14−19}} The Chelsea-Gansevoort section of the park would be anchored by a reconstructed Thomas F. Smith Park, which would be converted into a recreation hub known as Chelsea Waterside Park based on Thomas Balsley and the Chelsea Waterside Association's design. The {{convert|8|acre|ha|adj=on}} park would stretch between 22nd and 24th Streets, and extend west to the river occupying Piers 62, 63, and 64. The western or waterfront section of Chelsea Waterside Park would facilitate primarily passive recreation with grassy areas, trees, and seating, along with a jogging track. Piers 62 and 64 would be converted into public facilities for waterfront views. A lawn acting as an "informal amphitheatre" would be created on Pier 63. A playground and community garden would be established at the east end of Pier 64 at West 24th Street. The eastern or inland section of the park would be used for active recreation with a softball field and numerous tennis and handball courts, similar to its current design. The west end of 23rd Street would be de-mapped and converted into a pedestrian mall running through the park, with a monument or fountain to be placed at both ends of the strip within the park. Unlike the original plan for the park, there would be no pedestrian bridge connecting the inland and waterfront sections, requiring people to cross the new West Side Highway at-grade. The waterfront panel described the proposed Chelsea Waterside Park as "The largest and most active recreation area in the Hudson River Waterfront Park".{{rp|10, 40−51}}

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The Chelsea-Gansevoort section of Hudson River Park would also feature a redeveloped Chelsea Piers. The plan also proposed a "Chelsea-Convention Center Park", a grassy park on the shoreline between 30th and 34th Streets, which would support the nearby Jacob K. Javits Center and a mixed-use development to be built above the West Side Yard.{{rp|10, 40−58}} The total Hudson River Waterfront Park project was expected to cost $500 million, with the reconstruction of Smith Park and the cost of the bicycle and pedestrian paths estimated to cost $65 million. At the time, the project had $265 million in committed funding. $100 million would be provided by the state through the 21st Century Environmental Quality Bond Act, which was proposed by Governor Cuomo. This act would spend $1.9 billion on the development and preservation of parkland, and on closing landfills and promoting recycling. $100 million for the park would from New York City, earmarked by now-Mayor David Dinkins. An additional $65 million would be provided by federal highway funds. for the construction of the shoreline walkway and bikeway, and the conversion of Smith Park into Chelsea Waterside Park.{{rp|7, 11, 77−86}}{{cite news |last1=Gold |first1=Allan R. |title=Cuomo and Dinkins Back Hudson Park |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/16/nyregion/cuomo-and-dinkins-back-hudson-park.html |access-date=3 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=February 16, 1990}} The combined costs of the Hudson River Park project and the reconstruction of the West Side Highway was expected to reach $1.2 billion.{{rp|13}}

In August 1990, Thomas F. Smith Park was described as "a trapezoidal open space". Its features included London Plane trees, benches, a fountain, gaming tables, and the monument to Smith.{{cite web |title=Route 9A Reconstruction Project: Historic Resources Lot Inventory Report |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/arch_reports/361.pdf#page=149 |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation |access-date=26 November 2018 |date=August 1990}} The southern and western section of the park featured a parking lot, and an adjacent bus loop used by {{NYC bus link|M23}} crosstown buses.{{rp|41}} The larger northern and eastern section measured {{convert|0.42|acre|ha}} in size, while the smaller southern and western section occupied {{convert|0.69|acre|ha}}.{{rp|22-8}} Outside of the gaming tables and the few benches, the park featured no recreational facilities or seating areas. The block north of the park, meanwhile, was occupied by a one-story building used by trucking companies, and an exotic car repair shop.{{rp|51}}

Under the 1992 plan for the West Side Highway, the S-curve of the highway at 23rd Street would be straightened.{{rp|22-6−22-12}} The reconfiguration of the West Side Highway at 23rd Street would require the demolition of the southern section of Thomas F. Smith Park. Because of this, in June 1995/1996 the federal government and NYSDOT agreed to expand the park as part of the project. The new park would be extended north to 24th Street, with the stretch of 23rd Street running through the new park converted into a pedestrian zone.{{rp|22-6−22-12}}{{cite news |last1=Jacobs |first1=Andrew |title=Sibling Rivalry Divides Parks |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/22/nyregion/sibling-rivalry-divides-parks.html |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=December 22, 1996}}{{rp|137−139}} This plan deviated from the Hudson River Park Trust's original plans for Chelsea Waterside Park. In addition, the portions of the park west of the highway were no longer part of the Chelsea Waterside plans. At this time, Pier 62 was occupied by roller rinks and an inline skating course operated by the Chelsea Piers sports complex, intended only for an "interim" period of time.{{cite web |title=Comprehensive Manhattan Waterfront Plan: A 197-a Plan as modHied and adopted by the City Planning Commission and the City Council |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/community/197a-plans/manhattan_waterfront_197a.pdf |publisher=New York City Department of City Planning |access-date=4 December 2018 |date=Summer 1997}}{{rp|137−139}}{{cite news |last1=McKinley |first1=Jesse |title=NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: CHELSEA; Park vs. Putting: Chelsea Disputes A Plan for Pier 62 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/19/nyregion/neighborhood-report-chelsea-park-vs-putting-chelsea-disputes-a-plan-for-pier-62.html |access-date=4 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=October 19, 1997}} Meanwhile, Pier 63's warehouse was used as a restaurant, roller rink, and for sports courts, also intended to be temporary.{{rp|137−139}}

The first construction for Hudson River Park, on the cycle lanes of the Hudson River Greenway between Canal Street and 14th Street, began in early 1998. At this time, construction on the expansion of Thomas F. Smith Park was expected to begin that spring.{{cite news |last1=Martin |first1=Douglas |title=Hudson River Park Plan Moves Closer to Reality |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/16/nyregion/hudson-river-park-plan-moves-closer-to-reality.html |access-date=26 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=February 16, 1998}} The Hudson River Park Act was passed by the New York State Legislature in June 1998, and signed by Governor George Pataki in September 1998.{{cite web|last1=Martin|first1=Douglas|title=Hudson Park Draws Closer To Reality; Proponents Celebrate Approval by Albany|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/30/nyregion/hudson-park-draws-closer-to-reality-proponents-celebrate-approval-by-albany.html?pagewanted=all|website=The New York Times|access-date=March 30, 2015|date=July 30, 1998}}{{cite web|last1=Martin|first1=Douglas|title=Work on Hudson Park Is Stalled As Officials Lag in Naming Board|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/01/nyregion/work-on-hudson-park-is-stalled-as-officials-lag-in-naming-board.html|website=The New York Times|access-date=March 30, 2015|date=March 1, 1999}} Under the terms of the act, the rebuilt Smith Park was to have been only half of the {{convert|8|acre|ha|adj=on}} Chelsea Waterside Park. The other half, located on the river shore on the west side of the highway, would have included Piers 62, 63 (to be demolished), and 64.{{cite web |title=Hudson River Park Multi-Purpose Project General Project Plan |url=https://hudsonriverpark.org/assets/content/general/HRP_General_Project_Plan_(7-16-98).pdf |publisher=Empire State Development Corporation |access-date=26 November 2018 |date=July 16, 1998}}

File:Manhattan 2018-02 38.jpg Lawn Bowl (pictured), were originally planned as part of Chelsea Waterside Park.]]

The inland portion of Chelsea Waterside Park was opened on October 12, 2000, at the cost of $8.5 million. Upon opening, the park was proclaimed as "Chelsea's grand portal to its waterfront" by New York State officials.{{cite news |last1=Donohue |first1=Pete |title=Green park sprouts on W. Side: Chelsea's portal to waterfront |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/480420524/ |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=New York Daily News |agency=Newspapers.com |date=October 12, 2000}} The park's features at its opening were the sports field, dog run, and the splash pad portion of the playground. Construction of the main playground within the park, however, did not commence due to lack of funding.

Thomas Balsley's original design for the water playground received criticism for its ornamental sprinklers, which some local residents felt resembled "phallic" objects or sex toys.{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=Alexa |title=The 10 Biggest Design Failures Of The Last 25 Years |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/10-biggest-design-failures-2010-8 |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=Business Insider, The Infrastructurist |date=August 3, 2010}} The design had been intended to resemble chess pieces. According to Balsley, his design was inspired by a park in Osaka, Japan, while a less provocative design resembling eggs had been rejected. The three mounds that characterize the dog run were also criticized, with dog owners claiming the mounds were too large. In 2004, Chelsea Waterside Park received the American Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award.{{cite news |title=Hudson River Park receives awards for excellence |url=http://thevillager.com/villager_88/hudsonriverpark.html |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=The Villager (Manhattan) |date=January 5, 2005}}

In May 2005, the park's main playground was opened. The play area was designed as an "interactive" and "access for all" playground, with "Galaxy Class" equipment produced by Danish firm Kompen. The playground was intended to accommodate children or all ages, and those with disabilities. On October 28, 2009, the Hudson River Park Trust announced that the park received a $500,000 grant earmarked by New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, in order to resurface its turf playing field and add fencing around the field.{{cite news |title=Hudson River Park's Chelsea Waterside Athletic Field to Receive Renovation: Hudson River Park to receive $500K in funding from New York City Council Speaker to replace field in Chelsea Waterside Park |url=https://hudsonriverpark.org/assets/content/general/PR10.28.09.pdf |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=Hudson River Park |date=October 28, 2009}}{{cite news |title=Turf tune-up at Chelsea field |url=http://thevillager.com/villager_340/turftumeup.html |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=The Villager (Manhattan) |date=November 4, 2009}}

The waterfront parkland and piers originally planned as part of Chelsea Waterside would be developed for Hudson River Park under a separate project known as "Chelsea Cove", designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates.{{cite web |title=Chelsea Cove |publisher=Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates |url=https://www.mvvainc.com/projects/chelsea-cove}}{{cite web |title=2014 Honor Award: Chelsea Cove |url=https://www.aslany.org/portfolio-item/chelsea-cove/ |publisher=ASLA-NY |access-date=5 December 2021 |date=2014}}{{cite news |last1=Topousis |first1=Tom |title=Pier Into Future |url=https://nypost.com/2007/03/21/pier-into-future/ |access-date=5 December 2021 |work=New York Post |date=March 21, 2007}} Pier 64 was opened in April 2009.{{cite news |title=New Section of Hudson River Park Opens |url=https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/new-section-of-hudson-river-park-opens/ |access-date=5 December 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=May 5, 2009}}{{cite news |last1=Davies |first1=Pete |title=Hudson River Park's Pier 64 Opens to Chelsea's Lazy Loungers |url=https://ny.curbed.com/2009/4/27/10542922/hudson-river-parks-pier-64-opens-to-chelseas-lazy-loungers |access-date=5 December 2021 |work=Curbed |date=April 27, 2009}} Pier 62 and Pier 63 were opened on May 17, 2010, with the entire Chelsea Cove project estimated to cost $73 million.{{cite news |title=Hudson River Park Opens Piers 62 and 63 in Chelsea |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/news/daily-plant?id=22184 |access-date=5 December 2021 |work=The Daily Plant |date=May 27, 2010}}{{cite news |last1=Kaminer |first1=Ariel |title=Piers on the Hudson: A Carousel World |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/nyregion/30critic.html |access-date=4 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=May 28, 2010}}{{cite news |last1=Amateau |first1=Albert |title=Carousel, skatepark make a splash on the waterfront |url=http://thevillager.com/villager_370/carouselskate.html |access-date=4 December 2018 |work=The Villager (Manhattan) |date=May 19, 2010}} Pier 63 includes the Chelsea Lawn Bowl, originally envisioned as the "informal amphitheater" in the Chelsea Waterside project.{{rp|49}}

2014: NFL

• 2012.{{cite news |title=Super Bowl and Event Outreach |url=http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d8205a1b1/printable/super-bowl-and-event-outreach |access-date=27 November 2018 |work=NFL.com |date=June 16, 2011}}
• On May 7, 2014 the National Football League held an NFL Play 60 youth football clinic at the field of Chelsea Waterside Park, prior to the 2014 NFL Draft held at Radio City Music Hall. In attendance were NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and draft prospects Jadeveon Clowney, Johnny Manziel, and Teddy Bridgewater.{{cite news |last1=Bradley |first1=Bill |title=Photo gallery: NFL prospects dive into PLAY 60 event with kids |url=http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000347585/printable/photo-gallery-nfl-prospects-dive-into-play-60-event-with-kids |access-date=27 November 2018 |work=NFL.com |date=May 7, 2014}}{{cite news |last1=Myers |first1=Gary |last2=Samuel |first2=Ebenezer |last3=Walder |first3=Seth |last4=Rubinstein |first4=Jason |title=At NFL draft event, Roger Goodell say he sees playoff expansion, but not this season |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/nfl-draft-insider-commish-sees-playoff-expansion-2015-draft-article-1.1783802 |access-date=27 November 2018 |work=New York Daily News |date=May 7, 2014}}{{cite news |last1=Myers |first1=Gary |title=Johnny Manziel is NFL draft's biggest star - and question mark |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/myers-manziel-draft-biggest-star-question-mark-article-1.1783769 |access-date=27 November 2018 |work=New York Daily News |date=May 7, 2014}}{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Brian T. |title=New York minutes too few to satisfy demand for Johnny Football |url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/texans/article/New-York-minutes-too-few-to-satisfy-demand-for-5461600.php#photo-6273223 |access-date=27 November 2018 |work=Houston Chronicle |date=May 7, 2014 |location=New York City}}

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On December 10, 2015 during a meeting of Manhattan Community Board 4, members of the Friends of Hudson River Park Playground Committee proposed a major renovation of the Chelsea Waterfront Play Area. The playground had been plagued by dilapidated equipment, and suffered drainage issues due to only one drain serving the playground. At the time, the project was estimated to cost $1.5 million, which would be raised through a capital campaign. The initial plans for the new playground were overseen by Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, who had helped prepare the original Hudson River Park master plan in 1997.{{cite news |last1=Rajamani |first1=Maya |title=Chelsea Playground Needs $1.5M Revamp, Parents Say |url=https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20151214/chelsea/chelsea-playground-needs-15m-revamp-parents-say/ |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=DNAinfo |issue=December 14, 2015 |location=Chelsea, Manhattan}}{{cite web |title=Chelsea Waterside Play Area Capital Campaign |url=https://hudsonriverpark.org/assets/content/general/Chelsea_Waterside_Play_Area_Capital_Campaign.pdf |publisher=Hudson River Park |access-date=25 November 2018 |date=2016}}{{cite news |last1=Stewart |first1=Travis |title=Capital Campaign Launched to Upgrade Waterside Play Area |url=http://chelseanow.com/2016/01/capital-campaign-launched-to-upgrade-waterside-play-area/ |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=Chelsea Now |date=January 27, 2016}}

On November 10, 2016 at a meeting of Community Board 4, the Hudson River Park Trust presented finalized designs for the new play area as part of Phase I of the redevelopment of Chelsea Waterside Park. This design was created by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates.{{cite news |last1=Egan |first1=Sean |title=New Designs for Chelsea Waterside Park Unveiled |url=https://www.amny.com/news/new-designs-for-chelsea-waterside-park-unveiled/ |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=Chelsea Now |date=November 16, 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Rajamani |first1=Maya |title=Hudson River Park Trust Unveils Plans For New Chelsea Waterside Playground |url=https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161113/chelsea/chelsea-waterside-playground-renderings-hudson-river-park |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=DNAinfo |date=November 13, 2016 |location=Chelsea, Manhattan}}{{cite news |title=Water park getting makeover |url=Chelsea News |access-date=30 August 2023 |work=https://www.chelseanewsny.com/news/local-news/water-park-getting-makeover-AXNP1420160315160319955 |date=March 14, 2016}} The new design would incorporate the preserved sculptures from the New York Butchers' Dressed Meat Company slaughterhouse, the West Side Highway Art Deco reliefs, and granite stones from the Pier 54 arch.{{cite news |last1=Margolies |first1=Jane |title=From the Slaughterhouse to the Playground Steady as he goes: Transferring a nearly 100-year-old cow head to its new resting place, Chelsea Waterside Park. Credit Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times Image |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/nyregion/from-the-legacy-cow-heads-in-chelsea-waterside-park.html |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=June 20, 2018}}{{cite news |last1=McCroy |first1=Winnie |title=Shared History: Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen Divvy Donated Design Elements |url=http://chelseanow.com/2018/06/shared-history-chelsea-hells-kitchen-divvy-donated-design-elements/ |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=Chelsea Now |date=June 13, 2018}}

Ground was broken on the new playground on October 3, 2017. In attendance were Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and New York State Assemblyman Richard N. Gottfried.{{cite news |title=Waterside Play Area to get makeover |url=http://www.otdowntown.com/local-news/20171003/waterside-play-area-to-get-makeover |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=Our Town |date=October 3, 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Gordon Sala |first1=Rose |title=Get Ready for a Brand-New Chelsea Waterside Playground |url=https://mommypoppins.com/new-york-city-kids/parks-playgrounds/major-chelsea-waterside-playground-overhaul-gets-underway |access-date=30 August 2023 |work=Mommy Poppins |date=October 8, 2017}} By the end of 2017, $2.5 million had been raised for the park project through the capital campaign.{{cite web |title=Growth & Impact: 2017 Annual Report |url=https://hudsonriverpark.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2017-Friends-Annual-Report-HIGHRES.pdf#page=4 |publisher=Hudson River Park |access-date=30 August 2023 |page=2, 4 |date=2017}} The play area was reopened August 14, 2018, with the project costing $3.4 million.{{cite news |last1=Rock |first1=Michael |title=Chelsea Waterside Park Play Area is Back in the Business of Fun; Chelsea Waterside Park Play Area is Open Again|url=https://issuu.com/downtownexpress/docs/2018_08_16_cnw |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=Chelsea Now |date=August 15, 2018|pages=1, 6−7, 10}}{{cite news |last1=Spivack |first1=Caroline |title=Chelsea Waterside Playground Re-Opens With $3.4M Makeover: The new playground opened with a 64-foot long wooden pipefish jungle gym after an 11-month renovation. |url=https://patch.com/new-york/chelsea-ny/chelsea-waterside-playground-re-opens-3-4m-makeover |access-date=25 November 2018 |work=Patch.com |date=August 14, 2018 |location=Chelsea, Manhattan}} The final cost had increased from initial estimates in order to finance the Pipefish Tower. The alternative design for the feature would have been an eel surrounding a fire hydrant.

In November 2019, the Abel Bainnson Butz (ABB) architectural firm presented preliminary designs for Phase II of the park renovations to Manhattan Community Board 4, and received feedback for the plan from the community. The firm had previously designed Piers 45, 46, and 51 within Hudson River Park.{{cite news |last1=Salkaln |first1=Donathan |title=It’s Grown-Up Time for Chelsea Parks—Dog Time, Too! |url=https://chelseacommunitynews.com/2019/11/22/its-grown-up-time-for-chelsea-parks-dog-time-too/ |access-date=15 August 2023 |work=Chelsea Community News |date=November 22, 2019}} The central promenade would be redesigned with new "meandering" paths and the lawn and picnic area, to replace the existing "dominant and oversized pedestrian thoroughfare". The original granite walls of the park would also be removed, based on community input. The changes were intended to increase greenspace and reduce paved areas, making the park more welcoming to parkgoers instead of just acting as a route to the rest of Hudson River Park. The turf athletic field would be resurfaced for a second time, the dog run would be expanded, and a comfort station would be constructed, a longstanding issue with the park. The underused overlook at the northwest corner of the park would be eliminated, with the space integrated into the athletic field.

A groundbreaking ceremony for the project was held on December 3, 2021, with groundbreaking for the comfort station held on December 6. During the project, nearly the entire park was closed except for the play area and basketball court.{{cite news |title=Breaking Ground on a Renewed Chelsea Waterside Park |url=https://hudsonriverpark.org/breaking-ground-on-a-renewed-chelsea-waterside-park/ |access-date=17 August 2023 |work=Hudson River Park |date=December 14, 2021}}{{cite news |last1=Garber |first1=Nick |title=Chelsea Waterside Park Kicks Off Renovations: See It |url=https://patch.com/new-york/midtown-nyc/chelsea-waterside-park-kicks-renovations-see-it |access-date=30 August 2023 |work=Patch.com |date=December 6, 2021}} The park reopened on June 15, 2023. The total cost of the Phase II renovations was $15.2 million, with $9 million spent by the Hudson River Park trust, and additional funding from the City Council and the Manhattan Borough President.

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• [https://www.dec.ny.gov/hearings/11342.html Hudson River Park Conservancy - Ruling, November 30, 1998]
• [https://hudsonriverpark.org/about-us/hrpt/hrp-act HUDSON RIVER PARK ACT]
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• [http://wirednewyork.com/piers/pier64/ Pier 64 – Hudson River Park, WiredNY] - Chelsea Waterside East
• [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/about/publications/mnneeds_2010.pdf] - Comfort Station
• Parks Department
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• [http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/arch_reports/410.pdf HUDSON RIVER PARK PROJECT]
• [http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4090annual_report_manhattan_dept_parks_1928.pdf Parks Department Annual, 1928] - "Thomas Smith Park: Rearrangement in connection with Express Highway."
• [http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FSalamanca%2520NY%2520Republican%2520Press%2FSalamanca%2520NY%2520Press%25202008%2FSalamanca%2520NY%2520Press%25202008%252001661_1.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff9a98b671%26DocId%3D6346470%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D11%26hits%3D2b6%2B2b7%2B2f8%2B2f9%2B446%2B447%2B59e%2B59f%2B5a0%2B648%2B649%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FSalamanca%2520NY%2520Republican%2520Press%2FSalamanca%2520NY%2520Press%25202008%2FSalamanca%2520NY%2520Press%25202008%252001661_1.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff9a98b671%26DocId%3D6346470%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D11%26hits%3D2b6%2B2b7%2B2f8%2B2f9%2B446%2B447%2B59e%2B59f%2B5a0%2B648%2B649%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false Tracks from the Past]
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• [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1978/07/02/watching-new-york-citys-war-over-westway/b3dafd42-0de9-4caa-b83d-823828babc0a/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ae42ec6d10c1 Watching New York City's War Over Westway], Washington Post, 1978
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• [https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/17/realestate/streetscapes-the-miller-highway-razed-or-rebuilt-it-s-a-lost-cause.html Streetscapes: The Miller Highway; Razed or Rebuilt, It's a Lost Cause], NYTimes, 1991
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• {{commons category-inline|Chelsea Waterside Park}}

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=Westway (New York)=

{{Infobox road

| state = NY

| route = 478

| type = I

| name = Westway

| map =

| map_notes =

| length_mi = 4.2

| length_ref = New York State DOT and FHWA, [https://books.google.com/books?id=I7w1AQAAMAAJ "West Side Highway Project Final Environmental Impact Statement,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230929015123/https://books.google.com/books?id=I7w1AQAAMAAJ |date=September 29, 2023 }} June 4, 1977.{{rp|29}}

| history = Proposed in 1974; canceled in 1985

| decommissioned = 1985

| direction_a = South

| terminus_a = {{jct|state=NY|I|478|NY|9A|road|Battery Park Underpass|name1=Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel|name2=West Side Highway}} in Battery Park City

| junction = {{Plainlist|

• {{Jct|state=NY|I|78|name1=Holland Tunnel}} in Hudson Square / Tribeca
• {{jct|state=NY|NY|495|name1=Lincoln Tunnel}} in Hudson Yards

}}

| direction_b = North

| terminus_b = {{jct|state=NY|NY|9A|name1=West Side Highway}} in Midtown Manhattan

}}

{{Infobox park

| name = Westway State Park

| image =

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| type =

| location = Along the Hudson River, West Side, Manhattan.

| nearest_city =

| coordinates = {{Coord|40.733158|-74.010767|type:landmark_region:US-NY|display=inline}}

| area = {{convert|93|acre|ha}}

| created =

| operator = New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

| visitation_num =

| status = Proposed; never constructed
Hudson River Park built in its place.

| designation =

| open =

}}

The Westway, previously known as Wateredge{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam |title=Battle of the Westway; Bitter 10-Year Saga of a Vision on Hold |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/04/nyregion/battle-of-the-westway-bitter-10-year-saga-of-a-vision-on-hold.html |access-date=26 March 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=June 4, 1984 |page=B1}}, was a mixed-use highway, parkland, and planned development proposal for the redevelopment of the West Side Highway (NY 9A) corridor along the Hudson River on the West Side of Manhattan, New York City. Conceived in the 1970s in order to replace the dilapidated West Side Elevated Highway or Miller Highway, the plan would construct a {{convert|4.2|mi|km|adj=on}} underground express highway (Interstate 478), running north from the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel in Lower Manhattan to the Lincoln Tunnel in Midtown, before reconnecting with the elevated highway and Henry Hudson Parkway at 42nd Street.{{rp|28-34}}

The underground highway would be constructed within new landfill along the Hudson River, extending west of the existing shoreline, with an adjacent transitway for subway or bus service, and a large waterfront park and housing developments to be erected atop the new land. The former inland elevated structure south of 42nd Street would be demolished, replaced by a surface boulevard West Side Highway (West Street and 12th Avenue) for local traffic. The plan would transform the West Side from a declining industrial and shipping area into an inviting recreational and residential space, with the removal of the elevated highway increasing access to the waterfront.{{rp|3, 145−150, 155−159}} As it would be part of the Interstate Highway System, 90 percent of the project's $2 billion cost would be paid by the federal government, with the remaining funding coming from the New York State government.{{cite news |last1=Gargan |first1=Edward A. |title=Koch and Carey Sign a Pact for Westway Construction Unless U.S. Cuts 'Amenities' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/01/nyregion/koch-and-carey-sign-a-pact-for-westway-construction-unless-us-cuts.html |access-date=24 April 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=August 1, 1981 |page=1}}

The elevated Miller Highway was completed by 1937, constructed above West Street along the western edge of Manhattan island. The elevated highway was used by passenger cars, while West Street below was used by trucks serving the maritime and shipping industries on the West Side.{{cite book |title=Route 9A Reconstruction Project: Final Environmental Impact Statement; Design Report / Section 4(F) Statement |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ta41AQAAMAAJ&pg=SA21-PA23 |access-date=November 24, 2018 |date=May 1993 |author=Allee King Rosen and Fleming, Inc. |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, United States Department of Transportation |pages= |archive-date=August 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230830163313/https://books.google.com/books?id=ta41AQAAMAAJ&pg=SA21-PA23 |url-status=live}}{{rp|1-10}} By the 1960s, however, the elevated highway was considered obsolete and deteriorated, and restricted access to the waterfront.{{rp|1-10}}{{cite news |title=West Side Highway May Be Widened |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/09/18/archives/west-side-highway-may-be-widened.html |access-date=29 March 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=September 18, 1964 |page=1}} Planning studies in the 1960s and early 1970s, including the Wateredge Study in 1971, proposed to replace the entire stretch of the elevated highway between the Battery Tunnel and 72nd Street with a new structure, part of it located in an offshore tunnel. In December 1973, a section of the elevated highway collapsed and the structure was closed south of 46th Street, creating a need for a replacement route.{{Unbulleted list citebundle

| {{cite news |title=Truck and Car Fall as West Side Highway Collapses |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 16, 1973 |quote=A section of the West Side Highway collapsed yesterday under the weight of a dump truck and a passenger car, both of which fell to the street below. ... |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/16/archives/truck-and-car-fall-as-west-side-highway-collapses.html |access-date=August 30, 2023 |archive-date=March 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310051741/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/16/archives/truck-and-car-fall-as-west-side-highway-collapses.html |url-status=live}}

| {{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/17/archives/indefinite-closing-is-set-for-west-side-highway-northbound-road.html |title=Indefinite Closing Is Set or West Side Highway |last=Perlmutter |first=Emanuel |date=December 17, 1973 |work=The New York Times |access-date=September 12, 2017 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=September 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912144717/http://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/17/archives/indefinite-closing-is-set-for-west-side-highway-northbound-road.html |url-status=live}}

}} The Wateredge plan evolved into the Westway proposal in 1974, which was approved in 1977 by the Federal Highway Administration.{{cite book |title=Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement: Westside Highway Project; Volume I - Non-Fisheries Portion |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MLw1AQAAMAAJ&pg=SL22-PA91 |access-date=December 8, 2018 |date=November 1984 |publisher=Federal Highway Administration, United States Army Corps of Engineers |archive-date=August 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230830164138/https://books.google.com/books?id=MLw1AQAAMAAJ&pg=SL22-PA91 |url-status=live}}{{rp|iii-1}}

Like other plans to construct new highways in Manhattan in the 1970s, the Westway plan faced political opposition due to traffic and environmental concerns, and counterproposals to use the federal funding for mass transit improvements instead. The project was abandoned in 1985, after federal judge Thomas P. Griesa issued an injunction to stop construction due to concerns over the striped bass population in the Hudson River. Portions of the plan outside the Interstate Highway were later implemented, including the redevelopment of West Street into a landscaped surface boulevard, and the creation of Hudson River Park along the highway and river.

File:West St climbs from Battery Park underpass jeh.jpg (pictured).]]

The underground Westway would begin at the south end of Lower Manhattan at approximately West Thames Street in Battery Park City, near Battery Park (The Battery) and the World Trade Center. The new highway would be fed by the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel from Brooklyn, and the Battery Park Underpass from the FDR Drive on the East Side of Manhattan. The highway would run north along the Hudson River, with an interchange at Canal Street to feed the Holland Tunnel, another interchange at 14th Street, and a third interchange at 30th Street in what is now Hudson Yards to connect with the Lincoln Tunnel. The final exit would be in the vicinity of 34th Street, before the Westway merged with the existing West Side Elevated Highway at 42nd Street, eventually becoming the Henry Hudson Parkway at 72nd Street.{{rp|28-34}}{{cite web |title=West Side Highway Project: Project Report |url=https://ia804500.us.archive.org/15/items/westsidehighwayp00unse/westsidehighwayp00unse.pdf |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation |access-date=August 17, 2023 |date=1974}}{{rp|S-1−S-4, 6-1−6-3, 8-8−8-20}}

The Westway would share the Interstate 478 designation with the Battery Tunnel, which receives Interstate 278 traffic coming from Brooklyn, Staten Island, and New Jersey. The Holland Tunnel and Lincoln Tunnel would provide additional connections to/from New Jersey.{{rp|2, 8, 28-34}}{{rp|S-1−S-4, 6-1−6-3, 8-8−8-20}} The Westway would also bridge gaps in the local Interstate system between the Lincoln Tunnel (at the time designated I-495), the Holland Tunnel (I-78), and the Battery Tunnel. {{rp|2, 8, 28-34}} As an Interstate highway, the Westway would be able to carry heavy trucks, unlike the elevated highway which could only handle passenger cars.{{cite news |title=The Westway Project: Its History and Future |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/01/nyregion/the-westway-project-its-history-and-future.html |access-date=26 March 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=August 1, 1981}} Also unlike the existing highway, the new Westway would have direct tunnel connections with the Battery Tunnel and Battery Park Underpass.{{rp|2, 8, 28-34}}{{rp|S-1−S-4, 6-1−6-3, 8-8−8-20}}

The final selected layout of the Westway, known as the "Modified Outboard Alternative",{{rp|28–34}}{{rp|I-1}} would have most of the new highway between Jay Street (near Chambers Street) and 30th Street run offshore along the Hudson River instead of underneath the existing West Side Highway right-of-way. The river would be landfilled or infilled west of the existing river bulkhead, and the highway tunnel would be placed within the new land.{{rp|28-34}}{{rp|S-1−S-4, 2-5, 8-8−8-20}}{{rp|56}} The landfill would consist of sand extracted from New York Harbor, and would extend {{convert|600|to|900|ft|m}} west into the river from the bulkhead to the edge of the existing Hudson River piers.{{cite news |last1=Gargan |first1=Edward A. |title=Building Westway, Now that It's Real |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/02/weekinreview/building-westway-now-that-it-s-real.html |access-date=26 March 2024 |date=August 2, 1981}} The remaining piers on the river − such as Pier 40, the Gansevoort Peninsula, Pier 57, and Chelsea Piers − would be demolished, with the landfill taking their place. Many of the piers were unused and in disrepair due to declining maritime shipping operations.{{rp|42-43, 58-61, 171-173}}{{rp|2-5}}{{rp|143−158}} The tunnel would run under the existing right-of-way (West Street) south of Chambers Street to avoid the foundations of Battery Park City and the PATH Train tunnels to New Jersey, and along the old inland route north of 30th Street to connect with the remaining elevated highway.{{rp|28–34}}{{rp|S-1−S-4, 2-5, 8-8−8-20}} The highway would be six lanes wide, three in each direction, with the innermost lane of either direction serving as a HOV and express-bus lane during rush hours.{{rp|2, 28–34}}

Although most of the new highway would be underground, certain sections would run in an open cut or on an elevated trestle. In particular, the on-ramps leading to the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels would be above ground, and the stretch of highway from 30th Street to 42nd Street would also be elevated.{{rp|28-34}}{{rp|S-1−S-4, 2-5, 8-8−8-20}}{{rp|56}}

Early versions of the Westway plan included a two-lane transitway adjacent to the highway on the inland (east) side, serving either a new rail or subway route, or an express bus or bus rapid transit service. The transitway would operate along the West Side from Lower Manhattan to at least the George Washington Bridge in Washington Heights, possibly extending into the Bronx. Under the rail/subway plan, the new transitway would eventually merge with the West Side Rail Line at 30th Street near Penn Station and Hudson Yards, then run north along the line under Riverside Park and the Henry Hudson Parkway to Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. The transitway would be designed to be converted between rail and bus service, depending on the need.{{rp|21-22, 292-297}}{{cite book|title=West Side Highway Project: Environmental Impact Statement |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G4A2AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA13 |access-date=November 25, 2018 |date=April 25, 1974 |publisher=United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, New York State Department of Transportation |archive-date=August 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230830163710/https://books.google.com/books?id=G4A2AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA13 |url-status=live}}{{rp|143−158, 218-219}}

In addition to the new highway, the existing right-of-way of West Street would be redeveloped into a four-to-six-lane surface boulevard with a center median, similar to its contemporary design, to serve local traffic. The remnants of the old elevated highway below 42nd Street would be demolished.{{rp|28-31}}{{rp|S-1, 4-7}}{{rp|143−158}} The removal of the elevated highway and the redesign of West Street would improve access to the waterfront for pedestrians, including residents living near the highway.{{rp|3, 145−150, 155−159}}

The remaining elevated highway from 42nd Street to 72nd Street would be rehabilitated or replaced with a new structure, and possibly upgraded to Interstate Highway standards.{{rp|32-34}}

As part of the Outboard plan, {{convert|181|acre|ha}} of new land would be created by the landfilling, with a total of {{convert|234|acre|ha}} available for redevelopment as a result of the project.{{rp|3, 145−150, 155−159}}{{rp|S-1}} {{convert|93|acres|ha}} would be used for a new continuous linear park along the waterfront.{{rp|3, 145−150, 155−159}}{{rp|S-1}} {{convert|110|acres|ha}} from the Westway would be available for new residential, commercial, and industrial development.{{rp|3, 145−150, 155−159}}{{rp|S-1}}{{rp|56–57}}

The new linear park would be known as Westway State Park, extending {{convert|3|mi|km}} south-to-north along the Hudson River from Chambers Street to 34th Street. It would include a riverwalk or esplanade on the river shore, lawns, playing courts and fields, and sitting plazas. New recreational piers would be constructed for sitting, fishing, and marina use.{{cite news |last1=Carmody |first1=Deirdre |title=3 Designs for Proposed Westway Park Displayed by State |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/23/nyregion/3-designs-for-proposed-wetsway-park-displayed-by-state.html |access-date=22 April 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=December 23, 1983 |page=B1}}

Most of the park would be a narrow {{convert|200|ft|m|adj=on}}-wide promenade strip right along the water, similar to the current Hudson River Park. The promenade would sit directly atop the highway tunnel.{{rp|28–30}} The river esplanade of the park would feature a lower walkway along the water and an adjacent elevated upper walkway, similar in design to the Battery Park City Esplanade at Brookfield Place. Farther inland (east) would be an inner lawn with a cycleway running through it, with a road called “Park Street” marking the east end of the park.{{rp|28–30}} The adjacent inland landfill would be used for buildings in a new planned community development. This development would have a street grid, with West Street marking the east end of the site, and Park Street at the west end dividing the community and park. The development would construct 7,100 new apartment units across three sites on the landfill.{{rp|144–146}}{{rp|V-1}}{{rp|56–57}}

Three unique "community-oriented parks" would be created within Westway Park – in Tribeca at Chambers Street, in Greenwich Village at Christopher Street, and in Chelsea at 23rd Street – each extending from the river east to West Street. These three sites would contain most of the major features of Westway Park such as the playing courts and fields.{{rp|31, 150, 4-5−4-8, 4-13}}{{cite web |title=WESTWAY HIGHWAY PROJECT |url=http://venturiscottbrown.org/pdfs/WestwayHighwayProject01.pdf |publisher=Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown |access-date=22 April 2024 |location=New York City |pages=1-4 |date=1985}} The Chelsea park would be an expansion of the existing Thomas F. Smith Park at 23rd Street, which was underutilized due to the elevated highway crossing over it.{{rp|31, 150, 4-5−4-8, 4-13}}{{rp|177, 4(f)-10−4(f)-19}}

Three provisional designs for Westway Park were released to the public in December 1983, and the final design was selected in 1984. The park layout was inspired by the style of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who together designed Central Park and Prospect Park in the late 19th Century. The design was intended to contrast with more concrete-based parks being constructed at the time.{{cite news |last1=Goldberger |first1=Paul |title=3 Design Plans Being Considered for Proposed Park Over the Westway |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/28/nyregion/3-design-plans-being-considered-for-proposed-park-over-the-westway.html |access-date=22 April 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=March 28, 1984 |page=B1}}{{cite news |last1=Carmody |first1=Deirdre |title=Westway Park Design Goes Public |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/21/nyregion/westway-park-design-goes-public.html |access-date=22 April 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=June 21, 1984 |page=B1}} The architectural firms responsible for the design were Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown and Clarke & Rapuano, the latter of which designed the Henry Hudson Parkway and Riverside Park corridor, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, and Flushing Meadows–Corona Park among other city projects.{{cite journal |author1=Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown |author2=Clarke & Rapuano |author3=Salmon Associates |title=Big park for the Big Apple: Westway State Park, New York City |journal=Architectural Record |date=January 1985 |pages=124-131 |url=https://usmodernist.org/AR/AR-1985-01.pdf#page=86 |access-date=22 April 2024 |publisher=McGraw-Hill}}{{cite news |last1=Goldberger |first1=Paul |title=Westway Architects Selected by State |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/02/24/archives/westway-architects-selected-by-state-two-firms-venturi-rauch-and.html |access-date=22 April 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=February 24, 1978 |page=A16}}

The West Side Highway Project's 1977 Final Impact Statement anticipated that the new highway and landfill development would "act as a catalyst for the orderly redevelopment of Manhattan's lower West Side," supporting other new residential projects and urban renewal in the project area.{{rp|144–146}}{{rp|V-1}} In addition, the new park and communities atop the Westway landfill would tie in to the parkland and esplanade being constructed in Battery Park City, another planned development being created on landfill in the 1970s. The two developments would be adjacent to each other on the eastern shore of the Hudson.{{rp|67}}

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File:New York - New York City - NARA - 68145696 Crop 1.jpg (pictured at 79th Street) was expanded using landfill in the 1930s during the construction of the Henry Hudson Parkway.]]

Prior to European colonization, the portion of Lower Manhattan west of Greenwich Street was underwater as part of the Hudson River, with the river creating a rocky bluff along the edge of the island.{{rp|30-33}}{{cite web |last1=Hourigan |first1=E. V. |last2=Hofmann |first2=W. P. |title=Preliminary Soils and Foundation Study; for the Interstate Route Connection 518, West Side Highway |url=https://dn790009.ca.archive.org/0/items/00312_0/00312_0.pdf |website=Internet Archive |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation |access-date=10 February 2025 |location=Albany, New York |date=October 1972}}{{rp|1}}{{cite web |author1=Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. |author2=Historical Perspectives, Inc. |author3=Vollmer Associates |title=Route 9A Reconstruction Project: Draft Archaeological Assessment Report; Harrison Street to West 14th Street |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/arch_reports/357.pdf |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation |access-date=12 February 2025 |date=March 1990}}{{rp|I-2, IV-1–IV-2, VI-1–VI-7}}{{cite news |last1=Goldberger |first1=Paul |title=Groundwork |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/05/20/groundwork |access-date=27 March 2024 |work=The New Yorker |date=May 12, 2002}}{{cite news|last1=Skidmore|first1=Howard F.|title=Battery Tunnel Maw Swallowing Citrus Original Park Avenue: Oldest Neighborhood, Once ihe Best, Laler a Polyglot Village, Awaits Wreckers|work=New York Herald Tribune|agency=ProQuest, New York Public Library|date=April 14, 1946|page=A11}} Beginning in 1686 during the British colonial period, “water lots” – parcels west of Greenwich Street that were still part of the river – were sold and landfilled for development.{{cite news |last1=Schine |first1=Cathleen |title=The "Holy Ground" |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/09/16/the-holy-ground |access-date=27 March 2024 |work=The New Yorker |date=September 8, 2002 |page=46}}{{rp|VI-1–VI-7}}{{rp|9}} The remains of old ships and buildings as well as garbage were sometimes used as part of the landfill.{{rp|I-2, VI-1–VI-7}}{{cite web |last1=Schneiderman |first1=Faline |author2=Historical Perspectives, Inc. |title=Battery Park City Ballfield and Community Center Resiliency Project; Phase IA Archaeological Documentary Study |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/arch_reports/1887.pdf |publisher=Historical Perspectives, Inc., Battery Park City Authority |date=October 2020}}{{rp|3-4}}{{rp|10}} Through landfilling, Manhattan Island had been extended out to West Street by the 1850s.{{rp|VI-1–VI-7}}{{rp|10}}{{cite web |title=Westside Highway Cultural Resource Survey Archeological Work Program: Cultural Resources Research, Part 1 |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/arch_reports/368.pdf |website=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission |publisher=Historic Conservation and Interpretation, Inc., New York City Department of Transportation |access-date=30 March 2024 |date=June 1983}}{{rp| 120-195}}{{cite journal |editor1-last=Dixon |editor1-first=John Morris |title=Urban Waterfronts |journal=Progressive Architecture |date=June 1975 |url=https://usmodernist.org/PA/PA-1975-06.pdf#page=50 |access-date=12 February 2025 |publisher=Reinhold Publishing Corporation}}{{rp|50}} Landfilling was also used at various times to expand the area of Fort Amsterdam, which later became Battery Park.{{cite web |title=South Battery Park City Resiliency Project; Draft Phase IA Archaeological Documentary Study |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/arch_reports/1935.pdf |website=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission |publisher=Battery Park City Authority |access-date=31 March 2024 |date=January 2022}}{{rp|4-5−4-7}}{{cite web| url=http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/battery-park/history |title=The Battery|website= New York City Department of Parks and Recreation}} The leveling of the rocky bluff and extending the shoreline through landfilling catalyzed the development of shipping and commerce along the Hudson, with numerous piers constructed and markets established on the West Side of Manhattan throughout the 19th Century.{{rp|VI-1–VI-8}}

In the 1960s and 1970s while the Westway was being proposed, the Battery Park City development was being created on a {{convert|1|mi|km|adj=on}} parcel at the south end of the Hudson River, using {{convert|92|acre|ha}} of landfill. This fill consisted of excavations from the foundations of the World Trade Center, and sand from the bottom of New York Harbor near Staten Island.{{rp|67}}{{cite news |last1=Fried |first1=Joseph P. |title=U.S. Doubts Intensify About Battery City |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/22/archives/us-doubts-intensify-about-battery-city-officials-think-westways.html |access-date=27 March 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=April 22, 1978 |page=23}}{{rp|1-5}}{{rp|4-10−4-11}} By the 1970s, anywhere from {{convert|1400|to|3650|acre|ha}} of fill was estimated to have been used to expand the area of Manhattan Island, around one-fourth of the island's total area.{{cite news |last = Shipler |first = David R. |title = Manhattan is Expanding Out as well as Up |newspaper = The New York Times |date = August 25, 1971 |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/25/archives/manhattan-is-expanding-out-as-well-as-up-manhattan-growing-outward.html |accessdate = January 18, 2022}}{{Citation |last = Buttenwieser |first = Ann L. |title = Manhattan Water-Bound: Manhattan's Waterfront from the Seventeenth Century to the Present |publisher = Syracuse University Press |year = 1999 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KB2MsihpwRQC&q=Manhattan+Water-Bound%3A+Manhattan%E2%80%99s+Waterfront+from+the+Seventeenth+Century+to+the+Present |isbn = 9780815628019}} The area in-and-around the World Trade Center, for example, features a {{convert|15|to|20|ft|m|adj=on}} thick layer of landfill below street level, with foundation bedrock {{convert|40|ft|m}} below.{{cite web |last1=Horn |first1=Julie Abell |title=World Trade Center Memorial and Redevelopment Project, Southern Site; Block 54, Lot 1; Phase 1A Archaeological Assessment |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/arch_reports/1916.pdf |website=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission |publisher=Historical Perspectives, Inc. |access-date=30 March 2024 |date=November 7, 2003}}{{rp|4}}{{cite book |last1=Fox |first1=Tom |title=Creating the Hudson River Park: Environmental and Community Activism, Politics, and Greed |date=2024 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |location=New Brunswick, New Jersey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BGv5EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT26 |access-date=11 March 2025|chapter=2, 3}}

Additionally, numerous city parks created by city planner and Parks Commissioner Robert Moses during the 20th Century were developed by filling wetlands and coastal areas using municipal garbage. These include Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Marine Park, Spring Creek Park, and Shirley Chisholm State Park.{{cite book|title=30 Years of Progress: 1934–1965|date=June 9, 1964|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/parks_history/library/pdf/thirty_years_of_progress.pdf|access-date=March 31, 2017|page=7-8, 42|archive-date=October 9, 2022|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/parks_history/library/pdf/thirty_years_of_progress.pdf|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Sullivan |first1= Michael |title= Garbage Dump Today, Park Tomorrow |url= http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/viewer/?file=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201962%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201962%2520-%25200097.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201962%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201962%2520-%25200097.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live |access-date= January 7, 2017 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |via= Old Fulton New York Postcards |date= January 4, 1962}}{{cite news |title=Board of Estimate Adopts Resolution For Filling Spring Creek Park Site |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252021%2FRockaway%2520Beach%2520NY%2520%2520Wave%2520Of%2520Long%2520Island%2FRockaway%2520Beach%2520NY%2520%2520Wave%2520Of%2520Long%2520Island%2520%25201951%2FRockaway%2520Beach%2520NY%2520%2520Wave%2520Of%2520Long%2520Island%2520%25201951%2520-%25200219.pdf |access-date=May 16, 2017 |work=Wave of Long Island |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=April 19, 1951 |page=12}} During the 1930s under Moses, Riverside Park in the Upper West Side was extended west into the Hudson River with landfill, as part of the construction of the Henry Hudson Parkway and West Side Rail Line running through the park.{{rp|11, 88–89}}

File:Starrett-Lehigh Building- II. 601 West 26th Street, from Eleventh Avenue and 23rd street looking northeast past the West Side Express Highway, Manhattan (NYPL b13668355-482726).jpg (background) in 1938.]]

In 1929, the Regional Plan Association (RPA) released their first Regional Plan for the New York Metropolitan Area. The organization proposed express highways on the western and eastern coasts of Manhattan, precursors to the West Side Highway and FDR Drive respectively. The West Side route would run along the Hudson River, following the contemporary West Side Highway and Henry Hudson Parkway to the George Washington Bridge (under construction at the time), then continue north along U.S. 9 up the river to Peekskill and eventually Albany.{{cite journal |title=Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs |journal=Regional Plan Association |date=1929 |volume=1 |url=https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/rpa-org/pdfs/RPA-Plan1-v1-Regional-Plan-of-New-York-and-Its-Environs.pdf |access-date=27 March 2024 |publisher=William F. Fell and Company |location=Philadelphia}}{{rp|219, 231-233, 247-248}}

The West Side Elevated Highway or Miller Highway was planned by Robert Moses, completed in 1937 between Canal Street and 72nd Street and feeding into the Henry Hudson Parkway. By 1950, it was extended south to the Financial District and Battery Park, connecting to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.{{rp|VI-8–VI-10}}{{rp|4-11−4-12}} Like the FDR Drive, the Miller Highway was a parkway that could only handle passenger cars, while heavier trucks had to use West Street at grade level. This was by design, to allow trucks to access the piers, warehouses, and freight facilities along the West Side, while cars would bypass those areas via the highway.{{rp|1-10}}{{rp|55-57, 64-67}}{{cite news |title=The Road Not Taken |url=https://www.thirteen.org/nyvoices/highlights/road_not_taken.html |access-date=22 April 2024 |work=WNET |date=2004}}

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In 1964, city highway commissioner Robert Moses submitted plans to rehabilitate and upgrade the Miller Highway, in part to support the World Trade Center and Lincoln Center developments then-under construction. Under these plans, the roadway would be widened to six lanes and repaved from cobblestone to asphalt concrete, while dangerous curves at 14th and 23rd Streets would be straightened. Direct interchanges with the Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, and Lincoln Center would also be created. The expansion of the West Side Highway would tie into Moses' planned Lower Manhattan and Mid-Manhattan Expressways running crosstown across Manhattan.{{cite news |title=Moses Reveals West Highway Widening Plans |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201965%2520%2520Grayscale%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201965%2520a%2520%2520Grayscale%2520-%25200934.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff8188909d%26DocId%3D1339410%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520E%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D37f%2B380%2B381%2B391%2B392%2B393%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201965%2520%2520Grayscale%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201965%2520a%2520%2520Grayscale%2520-%25200934.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff8188909d%26DocId%3D1339410%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520E%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D37f%2B380%2B381%2B391%2B392%2B393%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=25 February 2025 |work=Yonkers Herald-Statesman |date=November 22, 1965 |location=New York City}}

In February 1966, the first iteration of the Battery Park City (BPC) project was presented to Governor Nelson Rockefeller by the Harrison & Abramovitz firm, calling for a new mixed-use development to be built atop landfill.{{cite book |last2=Brown |first2=Gene |author1=Urstadt, Charles J. |title=Battery Park City: The Early Years |date=2005 |publisher=Xlibris |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iRHR8_gjd3cC&pg=PA37 |access-date=29 March 2024}}{{rp|37-38}}{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Steven V. |title=GOVERNOR URGES 'CITY' AT BATTERY; 98-Acre, $600-Million Plan for Landfill Envisions Housing and Offices |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/05/13/archives/governor-urges-city-at-battery-98acre-600million-plan-for-landfill.html |access-date=30 March 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=May 13, 1966 |page=1}} In December 1966, the Regional Plan Association released "The Lower Hudson" report for the development of the Lower Hudson River on both the Manhattan and New Jersey shorelines, in conjunction with "The Lower Manhattan Plan" created by the New York City Planning Commission that same year.{{cite journal |last1=Towery |first1=F. Caarlisle |last2=Israel |first2=Philip |editor1-last=Shore |editor1-first=William B. |title=The Lower Hudson: A Report of the Second Regional Plan |journal=Regional Plan Association |date=December 1966 |url=https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/rpa-org/pdfs/RPA-Plan2-The-Lower-Hudson.pdf#page=60 |access-date=27 March 2024}}{{rp|55-57}}{{cite web |title=The Lower Manhattan Plan |url=https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/lowermanhattanpl00wall/lowermanhattanpl00wall.pdf |publisher=New York City Planning Commission |access-date=27 March 2024 |date=June 1, 1966}} While Robert Moses' plans at the time were to simply renovate and widen the dilapidated Miller Highway, the RPA instead recommended a full redesign of the West Side route.{{cite journal |last1=Towery |first1=F. Caarlisle |last2=Israel |first2=Philip |editor1-last=Shore |editor1-first=William B. |title=The Lower Hudson: A Report of the Second Regional Plan |journal=Regional Plan Association |date=December 1966 |url=https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/rpa-org/pdfs/RPA-Plan2-The-Lower-Hudson.pdf#page=60 |access-date=27 March 2024}}{{rp|55-57}}{{cite web |title=The Lower Manhattan Plan |url=https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/lowermanhattanpl00wall/lowermanhattanpl00wall.pdf |publisher=New York City Planning Commission |access-date=27 March 2024 |date=June 1, 1966}}

The Lower Manhattan and Lower Hudson Plans proposed an underground expressway from the Battery to Canal Street, an at-grade section north to 12th Street, then a new elevated structure continuing north to the Henry Hudson Parkway at 72nd Street.{{rp|55-57, 64-67}}{{cite news |title=West Side Highway Plan Rings Bell Here |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%25201967%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%25201967%252000144_1.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D1542a9c3%26DocId%3D6732985%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D1ab%2B1ac%2B1ad%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%25201967%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%25201967%252000144_1.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D1542a9c3%26DocId%3D6732985%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D1ab%2B1ac%2B1ad%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=Riverdale Press |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=March 30, 1967 |page=14}} The underground section in Lower Manhattan would be placed within {{convert|190|acre|ha}} of offshore landfill in the Hudson River, with a new planned community (Battery Park City) to be created atop the fill. The Lower Manhattan Plan, which had been in development before the release of the Battery Park City proposal, envisioned the site as an extension of the World Trade Center, both forming one continuous superblock with no highway or road dividing the site. In addition, a new waterfront park would be constructed on the landfill between Hubert and Canal Streets.{{rp|55-57, 64-67}}{{rp|75-79}}{{rp|50}}{{cite news |last1=Huxtable |first1=Ada Louise |title=Battery Park City, in 3d Plan, Hovers Between Dream and a Disaster |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/14/archives/battery-park-city-in-3d-plan-hovers-between-dream-and-a-disaster.html |access-date=29 March 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=July 14, 1973 |page=27}}{{cite news |last1=Ada Louise |first1=Huxtable |title=Architecture: How Not to Build a City |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/22/archives/architecture-how-not-to-build-a-city.html |access-date=30 March 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=November 22, 1970 |page=129}} The at-grade section of highway between Canal Street and 12th Street, possibly also located atop landfill, would have an upper deck where parkland and housing would be constructed.{{rp|55-57, 64-67}}{{rp|75-79}} Depressing the highway in some capacity was emphasized by the proposals in order to increase pedestrian access to the waterfront.{{rp|55-57, 64-67}}{{rp|75-79}}

Landfilling for the BPC project began in 1966, facilitated by new laws allowing landfilling west of the Manhattan bulkhead.{{rp|5}} The landfilling was complete in 1974, and construction of building foundations began that year, with piles driven into the landfill.{{rp|5}}{{cite news |last1=Fried |first1=Joseph P. |title=Building of Battery Park City Finally Starts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/21/archives/building-of-battery-park-city-finally-starts.html |access-date=30 March 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=September 21, 1974 |page=1}}

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By the late 1960s and early 1970s, the West Side Elevated Highway had deteriorated, due to increased traffic on the West Side, and corrosion from the use of road salt to melt snow and ice during the winter. The route also featured dangerous "S"-curves at 14th and 23rd Streets, and on-ramps that were unsafe due to their orientation and steep angle.{{rp|1-10}}{{rp|118–123}} In 1973, 115,000 cars used the elevated highway each day, making it the second busiest highway in New York City after the Long Island Expressway.{{rp|134}}{{cite news |last1=Prial |first1=Frank J. |title=West Side Studies 6 Highway Plans |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/30/archives/west-side-studies-6-highway-plans-were-not-ready-division-of.html |access-date=3 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=March 30, 1973 |page=41}}

Simultaneously, the usage of the West Side piers along the Hudson had sharply declined. Former marine and rail shipping operations in the area had been replaced by large container ships, and truck and air cargo, with the major container ports of New York Harbor located outside Manhattan in New Jersey, Brooklyn, and Staten Island.{{rp|49–61}}{{rp|1-10}}{{rp|26–49}} Pier 40 at Houston Street was the only West Side pier still used for cargo shipping by the 1970s,{{rp|26–49}} with all cargo activity on the West Side ending by 1974.{{rp|49–61}} Meanwhile, passenger ferry service across the river to New Jersey had been supplanted by the road and rail crossings constructed during the 20th Century,{{rp|1-10}}{{rp|26–49}} while transatlantic cruise traffic had been reduced due to the rise in commercial air travel.{{rp|49–53}} Chelsea Piers, for example, was classified as an inactive passenger terminal in 1968,{{rp|53}}{{rp|1-10}}{{rp|26–49}} while passenger service from Pier 40 had been relocated to the Manhattan Cruise Terminal in Midtown opened in 1974.{{rp|49–53, 172}} This led to a decline in Manhattan's historical manufacturing, industrial, and longshore job bases, replaced by office jobs in Midtown and the Financial District.{{rp|49–61}}{{rp|26–49}} Many of the West Side piers were abandoned and dilapidated,{{rp|10, 43, 58–61}} and several were destroyed by fires, due in part to being treated with the flammable preservative creosote.{{rp|10, 43, 58–61}}{{cite news |title=Four Pier Sheds Leveled by Fire |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/06/archives/four-pier-sheds-leveled-by-fire-west-side-highway-traffic-is.html |access-date=31 March 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=January 6, 1973 |page=14}}{{cite news |last1=Kennedy |first1=Shawn G. |title=Pier Fire's Smoke Makes a Hot Day Even Worse |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/10/nyregion/pier-fire-s-smoke-makes-a-hot-day-even-worse.html |access-date=31 March 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=July 10, 1981 |page=B3}} Due to a lack of existing parkland in West Side neighborhoods such as Greenwich Village, the inactive piers were used by local residents for passive recreation, in spite of their dangerous conditions.{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=Lincoln |title=The way it was: Tom Fox’s photos recall pre-Hudson River Park waterfront |url=https://thevillagesun.com/the-way-it-was-tom-foxs-photos-show-pre-hudson-river-park-waterfront |access-date=31 March 2025 |work=The Village Sun |date=November 3, 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Black |first1=Pam |title=Pier Sheds Come Down as Westway is on Hold |url=https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=tv19830818-01.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- |access-date=30 March 2025 |work=The Villager (Manhattan) |agency=NYS Historic Newspapers|date=August 18, 1983|pages=1–2}}

In 1969, New York State requested the federal government to add the West Side Highway to the Interstate Highway System. This would allow money from the Federal Highway Trust Fund to be used to rebuild the highway, due to a lack of city and state funds.{{rp|134}}

In March 1971, Governor Nelson Rockefeller proposed upgrading the combined Henry Hudson Parkway and West Side Highway from the George Washington Bridge south to the Battery Tunnel into an Interstate Highway, as well as expanding the Belt Parkway between the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in Brooklyn and the Nassau Expressway at JFK Airport into an Interstate. The new highways along with the existing Brooklyn–Queens Expressway (I-278) would create a continuous Interstate route for trucks running from New Jersey through Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.{{cite news |title=Proposed ‘Truckway1 Would Add 4 Lanes To Shore Pkwy: Expansion Would Destroy Shore Rd. Park |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Home%2520Reporter%2520and%2520Sunset%2520News%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Home%2520Reporter%2520and%2520Sunset%2520News1971%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Home%2520Reporter%2520and%2520Sunset%2520News1971%252001186.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffac1ccd85%26DocId%3D8039572%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D44%2B17d%2B1b3%2B1c0%2B1c1%2B1c2%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Home%2520Reporter%2520and%2520Sunset%2520News%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Home%2520Reporter%2520and%2520Sunset%2520News1971%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Home%2520Reporter%2520and%2520Sunset%2520News1971%252001186.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffac1ccd85%26DocId%3D8039572%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D44%2B17d%2B1b3%2B1c0%2B1c1%2B1c2%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=The Brooklyn Home Reporter |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=April 9, 1971 |page=3}} Several other proposed highways, including the Lower Manhattan and Mid-Manhattan Expressways, were eliminated from the city's Interstate program at this time due to political opposition; the Belt Parkway route would serve as a replacement for the canceled Cross-Brooklyn Expressway and Bushwick Expressway.{{cite news |author1=Associated Press |title=Rocky plans restructuring NYC Interstate Highway System |url=https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%202/Auburn%20NY%20Citizen%20Advertiser/Auburn%20NY%20Citizen%20Advertiser%201971.pdf/Newspaper%20Auburn%20NY%20Citizen%20Advertiser%201971%20-%204452.PDF#xml=https://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=59fb9745&DocId=354232&Index=Z%3a%5cDISK%20F&HitCount=6&hits=6cb+7b6+7b7+7b8+7ce+9e6+&SearchForm=%2fFulton%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=The Citizen (Auburn, New York) |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=March 25, 1971 |page=2}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/25/archives/lower-manhattan-road-killed-under-state-plan.html|title=Lower Manhattan Road Killed Under State Plan|url-access=subscription|last=Vines|first=Francis X.|date=March 25, 1971|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 19, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} That year, the West Side Highway route from the Battery to 72nd Street and the Henry Hudson Parkway from 72nd Street to the George Washington Bridge were designated as part of the Interstate Highway System by the federal government.{{rp|10}}{{rp|12, 89}}{{rp|212}}{{cite web |title=The Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways; Part V - Interstate Withdrawal-Substitution Program |url=https://highways.dot.gov/highway-history/interstate-system/dwight-d-eisenhower-system-interstate-and-defense-highways/part-v |publisher=Federal Highway Administration |access-date=23 April 2024 |date=1998}} The project was known as "Interstate Route Connection 518", while the highway was designated Interstate 478.{{rp|S-1, 1-1}} The Henry Hudson Parkway north of 72nd Street, however, was later barred from Interstate status by a law passed in the New York State Legislature, which prevented Interstate construction within Riverside Park. This bill had been proposed by West Side assemblyman Albert H. Blumenthal, and was known as the "Blumenthal Amendment".{{rp|10}}{{rp|12, 89}}{{cite news |title=New West Side Highway Unnecessary Say Assemblymen |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%25201973%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%25201973%252000612_1.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffe5e9bc10%26DocId%3D6740522%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D14%26hits%3D10%2B11%2B12%2B77%2B78%2B79%2Beb%2Bf9%2Bfa%2Bfb%2B2c4%2B2c5%2B2c6%2B339%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%25201973%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%25201973%252000612_1.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffe5e9bc10%26DocId%3D6740522%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D14%26hits%3D10%2B11%2B12%2B77%2B78%2B79%2Beb%2Bf9%2Bfa%2Bfb%2B2c4%2B2c5%2B2c6%2B339%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=26 February 2025 |work=Riverdale Press |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=September 20, 1973 |page=20}}{{cite news |last1=Schumach |first1=Murray |title=Residents and Politicians at Riverside Rally Oppose Truck Route Into Park |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/23/archives/residents-and-politicians-at-riverside-rally-oppose-truck-route.html |access-date=3 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=May 23, 1971 |page=26}}

In May 1971, the New York State Urban Development Corporation released the Wateredge Development Study to redevelop the West Side Highway corridor. This was the sixth study since 1956 conducted to repair or replace the West Side Elevated Highway.{{rp|10}}{{rp|11}} Under this plan, a replacement highway would run offshore from the Battery to 72nd Street before feeding into the Henry Hudson Parkway. This new highway would consist of a concrete tunnel or tube sitting above the Hudson River, built atop concrete piles in the location of the existing shipping piers. Adjacent tubes or additional levels would contain parking garages and/or a new subway line. The tunnel would be topped with a concrete-deck roof sitting slightly above street level, which would slope down from the highway to meet the Manhattan shore at grade level. The top of the deck roof would be developed with parkland and housing, while new piers for recreation could be created to replace the original ones. The new decking would create {{convert|700|acres|ha}} of land for development.{{rp|142}}{{rp|56}}{{cite journal |last1=Blake |first1=Peter |title=The City Politic |journal=New York (magazine) |date=July 5, 1971 |volume=4 |issue=27 |pages=8-9 |access-date=26 March 2024|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-MQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA9}}{{cite journal |editor1-last=Blake |editor1-first=Peter |title=Watrfront; Hugging the Hudson |journal=Architectural Forum |date=September 1971 |volume=135 |issue=2 |page=18 |url=https://usmodernist.org/AF/AF-1971-09.pdf#page=20 |access-date=11 February 2025 |publisher=Whitney Publications}} The pile foundation below the tunnel was considered necessary due to the softness of the subsoil in the project area, including the riverbed soil, and the inland soil from the historic landfilling of Manhattan.{{rp|1–4}} The offshore routing of this highway would eliminate the physical barrier to the waterfront created by the existing elevated highway, while the trestle-like pilling structure would be cheaper than a conventional tunnel excavated inland. The Wateredge construction concept was later rejected by the West Side Highway Project, as the highway would have to be built {{convert|30|ft|m}} above street level with this method, creating a visual barrier obstructing the waterfront for residents east of West Street.{{rp|142}} By 1972, West Side Highway project head Lowell K. Bridwell called the pilings proposal "dead".{{cite news |last1=Piral |first1=Frank J. |title=Quiet Planners Map A West Side Route |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/23/archives/quiet-planners-map-a-west-side-route.html |access-date=13 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=April 23, 1972 |page=S22}}

In December 1971, then-Governor Rockefeller and then-Mayor John Lindsay signed a "Memorandum of Understanding" creating the West Side Highway Project, which would further study the redevelopment of the corridor. The project was overseen by a 20-member "Steering Committee", which included the heads of numerous City and State Government agencies, and the chairpersons of several Manhattan Community Boards.{{rp|10}}{{cite news |title=Plans Set to Rebuild West Side Highway |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/24/archives/plan-set-to-rebuild-west-side-highway.html |access-date=12 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=December 24, 1971 |page=28}} On December 15, 1973, a {{convert|60|ft|m|adj=on}} section of the West Side Elevated Highway at Gansevoort Street south of 14th Street collapsed under the weight of a dump truck, which was carrying asphalt for repairs to the highway. Other sections of the highway were also found to be structurally unsound. In response, the elevated highway was closed between Battery Park and 46th Street in January 1974, as was the southern section of the Henry Hudson Parkway from 72nd to 79th Street.{{rp|133}}{{rp|10, 119−123, 147−148}}{{rp|2-4−2-5}}{{Unbulleted list citebundle

| {{cite news |title=Truck and Car Fall as West Side Highway Collapses |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 16, 1973 |quote=A section of the West Side Highway collapsed yesterday under the weight of a dump truck and a passenger car, both of which fell to the street below. ... |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/16/archives/truck-and-car-fall-as-west-side-highway-collapses.html |access-date=August 30, 2023 |archive-date=March 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310051741/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/16/archives/truck-and-car-fall-as-west-side-highway-collapses.html |url-status=live}}

| {{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/17/archives/indefinite-closing-is-set-for-west-side-highway-northbound-road.html |title=Indefinite Closing Is Set or West Side Highway |last=Perlmutter |first=Emanuel |date=December 17, 1973 |work=The New York Times |access-date=September 12, 2017 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=September 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912144717/http://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/17/archives/indefinite-closing-is-set-for-west-side-highway-northbound-road.html |url-status=live}}

}} Following its closure, the elevated highway was frequented by joggers and cyclists.{{cite news |last1=Clines |first1=Francis X. |title=About New York: The Views from the West Side Highway |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/29/archives/about-new-york-the-view-from-the-west-side-highway.html |access-date=31 March 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=October 29, 1977 |page=20}} In August 1974, a 14-year-old boy was killed while exploring the elevated highway on a bicycle, falling through the collapsed section at Gansevoort Street.{{cite news |last1=Clark |first1=Alfred E. |title=Boy on West Side Highway Dies in Fall Through Hole |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/17/archives/boy-on-west-side-highway-dies-in-fall-through-hole.html |access-date=11 March 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=August 17, 1974}}{{cite news |title=Boy's Fatal Fall on W. Side Highway Is Puzzle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/491919658/ |access-date=23 April 2025 |work=New York Daily News |date=August 17, 1974 |page=3}} These incidents emphasized the need to demolish the Miller Highway and build a replacement express highway, as well as create a new surface boulevard to replace West Street.{{rp|1-10}}{{rp|10}} The later onset of the city's fiscal crisis in 1975 would further necessitate the use of federal funds to reconstruct the West Side Highway.{{cite book |last1=Buzbee |first1=William W. |title=Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City |date=2014 |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=Ithaca, New York |isbn=0801470307 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=atFDAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21 |access-date=6 March 2025}}{{rp|21–22}}

The West Side Highway Project team released a draft environmental impact statement in April 1974, featuring five "alternatives" for redeveloping the corridor.{{rp|147–157}}{{cite news |last1=Burks |first1=Edward C. |title=Five Proposals Analyzed For West Side Highway |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/08/archives/five-proposals-analyzed-for-west-side-highway-moderate.html |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=April 8, 1974 |page=39}} The primary design proposed was the Outboard Route running from the Battery to 42nd Street, located offshore similar to the Wateredge route, but utilizing a tunnel within landfill instead of piles and decking. This was also the most expensive alternative, costing over $1 billion and requiring federal Interstate funding.{{rp|142, 147–157}} The other alternatives were the Inboard Route, an Interstate Highway tunnel running within the existing West Street corridor; the Arterial Route, which would convert the entire highway from the Battery to 72nd Street into a six-lane surface boulevard; and "Maintenance" and "Reconstruct" alternatives which would repair the existing Miller Elevated Highway or create a new wider elevated structure.{{rp|147–157}} The Outboard, Inboard, and Arterial plans all would include an adjacent transitway for a new West Side subway line, or for express bus service.{{rp|147–157}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/04/archives/city-proposes-a-new-west-side-highway.html|title=City Proposes a New West Side Highway|last=Prial|first=Frank J.|date=April 4, 1971|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 19, 2018|language=en-US|url-access=subscription|issn=0362-4331}} Around this time, the "Westway" moniker was coined by businessman and Deputy Mayor John Eugene Zuccotti.

Soon after the release of the Westway plan, a coalition of advocacy groups known as Action for Rational Transit began campaigning against the Interstate Highway, filing the first lawsuit against the Westway project in December 1974. The coalition claimed the new highway would dramatically increase truck and automobile traffic on the West Side, leading to increased pollution.{{cite news |last1=Burks |first1=Edward C. |title=Clean Air Issue in Hearing on West Side Highway |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/06/archives/clean-air-issue-in-hearing-on-west-side-highway.html |access-date=12 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=September 6, 1974}}{{cite news |last1=Singer |first1=Mark |last2=Hertzberg |first2=Hendrik |title=Highway |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/09/16/highway |access-date=12 February 2025 |work=The New Yorker |date=September 16, 1974 |page=33}} On March 7, 1975, a modified version of the Outboard Alternative was officially selected for the Westway project by Mayor Beame and Governor Carey.{{rp|25, 32}} At this time, only the {{convert|4|mi|km|adj=on}} stretch of the West Side corridor from the Battery Tunnel to 42nd Street, connecting to the Lincoln Tunnel, was officially designated as an Interstate Highway. In addition, the adjacent transitway was eliminated from the project, with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey declining to support the new transit route as it would compete with existing lines.{{rp|21–22, 25}} The landfill development was downsized from {{convert|243|acre|ha}} with 20,000 new apartment units to {{convert|181|acres|ha}} for 7,100 new apartments, while the Holland Tunnel / Canal Street interchange was simplified from a two-corridor junction into a single-corridor junction.{{rp|22, 161}}

File:President Ronald Reagan presenting New York leaders with a check for Westway Project Funds.jpg, Mayor Ed Koch and other officials with a ceremonial check for the Westway project in 1981.]]

In January 1977, the Westway project was approved by federal government. At this time, the project was expected to cost $1.2 billion, $990 million of which would be covered by the federal government.{{cite news |last1=Geline |first1=Robert |title=Transportation secretary gives the Westway highway the green light |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2017/01/10/transportation-secretary-gives-the-westway-highway-the-green-light/ |access-date=12 February 2025 |work=New York Daily News |date=January 5, 1977}}{{cite news |author1=Associated Press |title=Westway; Carter gives go-ahead for highway |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201977%2520Grayscale%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201977%2520a%2520Grayscale%2520-%25201754.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D1348e896%26DocId%3D1489234%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520E%26HitCount%3D7%26hits%3D3d9%2B3da%2B3db%2B421%2B488%2B489%2B48a%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201977%2520Grayscale%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201977%2520a%2520Grayscale%2520-%25201754.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D1348e896%26DocId%3D1489234%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520E%26HitCount%3D7%26hits%3D3d9%2B3da%2B3db%2B421%2B488%2B489%2B48a%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=14 February 2025 |work=Yonkers Herald-Statesman |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=February 4, 1977 |location=Washington, D. C.}} The routing approved was the modified and downsized version of the Outboard Alternative.{{rp|I-1}} The city also petitioned the federal government to extend the Interstate route north to 72nd Street.{{rp|25, 32}} When announcing the project's approval, both U.S. Secretary of Transportation William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. and Chase Manhattan Bank chairman David Rockefeller anticipated that $7 billion in private development projects would be created as a result of the Westway project, offsetting construction costs, with New York State Governor Hugh Carey commenting that he "could hear the money flowing".{{cite news |last1=Blumenthal |first1=Ralph |title=Westway Plan Wins Final U.S. Approval; Boon to City is Seen |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/05/archives/westway-plan-wins-final-us-approval-boon-to-city-is-seen-work-could.html |access-date=12 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=January 5, 1977 |page=1}} In 1978, the city opened bids for the demolition of Piers 48, 51, and 52 in Greenwich Village, to clear the right-of-way for the Westway project.{{cite news |author1=Associated Press |title=State to begin demolition for Westway |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201978%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201978%2520c%252001487_2.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffe3bafba8%26DocId%3D7781970%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3Dfc%2B198%2B300%2B353%2B540%2B541%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201978%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201978%2520c%252001487_2.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffe3bafba8%26DocId%3D7781970%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3Dfc%2B198%2B300%2B353%2B540%2B541%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=The Journal News |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=July 2, 1978 |location=New York City |page=7B}}

On July 31, 1981, then-Governor Hugh Carey and then-Mayor Ed Koch finalized a deal to begin the Westway project. At the time, the total cost of the project was estimated to be $2.3 billion. As part of the national Interstate Highway System, 90 percent of the Westway project's cost would be paid for by the federal government, with the remaining ten percent of funding coming from New York State. The federal and state funding would also pay for non-highway elements such as Westway Park, and for replacements for city-owned facilities destroyed by the project, such as the DSNY garbage incinerator atop the Gansevoort Peninsula, and the MTA bus depot being operated inside Pier 57. New York City would not have to commit any funding to the project.{{cite news |last1=Finnegan |first1=William |title=Winning the West |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/07/05/winning-the-west |access-date=4 May 2024 |work=The New Yorker |date=June 27, 2004}} Under Governor Carey and Mayor Koch's agreement, if the "frills" of the project – the state park, and the replacement facilities – were removed from the project by the federal government, a public authority called the Westway Development and Finance Corporation would be created by New York State to raise the money instead.

On Labor Day, September 7, 1981, then-President Ronald Reagan presented a ceremonial check of $85 million to city and project officials including Mayor Koch, which would be used to purchase waterfront property including the old Hudson River piers from the City for the Westway right-of-way. During the event, President Reagan declared, "The Westway project begins today".{{cite news |last1=Weingroff |first1=Richard F. |title=A Moment in Time: President Ronald Reagan Launches Construction of Westway |url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/moment/westway.cfm |access-date=15 August 2023 |work=Federal Highway Administration |date=April 12, 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Moritz |first1=Owen |title=How the ‘Soot Lady’ and striped bass defeated the Westway development project |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2017/08/14/how-the-soot-lady-and-striped-bass-defeated-the-westway-development-project/ |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=New York Daily News |date=November 20, 1998}}{{cite news |title=TRANSCRIPTS OF SPEECHES BY KOCH AND REAGAN ON THE WESTWAY PROJECT HERE |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/08/nyregion/transcripts-of-speeches-by-k-och-and-reagan-on-the-westway-project-here.html |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=September 8, 1981 |page=B7}} Reagan had previously endorsed the Westway project during his election campaign to appeal to both blue-collar construction workers and Democratic voters, comparing it to New Deal public works projects from the 1930s.{{cite news |last1=Cannon |first1=Lou |title=Reagan, Echoing 'New Deal,' Woos Hard-Hats |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/10/02/reagan-echoing-new-deal-woos-hard-hats/742e49e4-9037-4023-ab64-3d1e33a950ca/ |access-date=25 February 2025 |work=The Washington Post |date=October 1, 1980 |location=New York City}} Using the federal funding, {{convert|327|acres|ha}} of land on the West Side were acquired by New York State for the Westway project by February 1982. This included the City-owned piers south of 34th Street, and inland sites such as Thomas F. Smith Park.{{cite journal |last1=Fogarty |first1=Joseph A. |title=The Westway Project Acquisition Progress Report |journal=Right of Way |date=April 1983 |volume=30 |pages=11-14 |url=https://eweb.irwaonline.org/eweb/upload/web_0483_Westway_Project.pdf |access-date=31 March 2024}}

• Westway State Park (1983-1983){{cite news |last1=Henry |first1=John |title=Westway foes hit display of park model |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/487127627/ |access-date=22 April 2024 |work=New York Daily News |date=February 13, 1985}} A large diorama of the proposed park was installed in Grand Central Terminal.

The Westway is considered one of the most controversial projects in the history of both New York City{{cite news |last1=Finnegan |first1=William |title=Dept. of Building; Winning the West |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/07/05/winning-the-west |access-date=25 February 2025 |work=The New Yorker |date=July 5, 2004}} and the Interstate Highway System,{{rp|1-11}}{{rp|1349–1351}}{{cite news |last1=Feaver |first1=Douglas B. |title=25 Urban Freeways, and $6.7 Billion, Now on Hold |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/12/27/25-urban-freeways-and-67-billion-now-on-hold/e795fafb-d12f-436a-b8da-b8bc652b3635/ |access-date=24 February 2025 |work=The Washington Post |date=December 26, 1980}} with its construction delayed by polarizing debate across two decades. Although short in length compared to previous city highway projects, its wide scope as a highway, park, waterfront renewal, and real estate development proposal also contributed to the surrounding controversy.{{cite news |last1=Goldberger |first1=Paul |title=Debate on Westway Concerns Concepts of City's Future |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/10/nyregion/debate-on-westway-concerns-concepts-of-city-s-future-an-appraisal.html |access-date=24 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=February 10, 1981 |page=B3}} The controversies around the project spawned over 1,000 articles on the subject from The New York Times. In describing the discourse of the Westway project in 1982, then-Mayor Ed Koch stated "Westway has had more ups and downs than any project since the Panama Canal".{{cite news |last1=Lubasch |first1=Arnold H. |title=U.S. Judge Blocks Westway Landfill as Threat to Fish |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/01/nyregion/us-judge-blocks-westway-landfill-as-threat-to-fish.html |access-date=6 March 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=April 1, 1982 |page=A1}}

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Supporters viewed the Westway as an “antidote to the [Robert] Moses type of solution" for building highways,{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam |title=The Legacy of Westway: Lessons from It's Demise |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/07/nyregion/the-legacy-of-westway-lessons-from-its-demise.html |access-date=26 March 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=October 7, 1985 |page=A1}}{{rp|147}} which would often involve routing highways through existing neighborhoods, condemning property and demolishing buildings via eminent domain, while displacing thousands of residents and businesses.{{rp|139–140, 147}}{{cite news |last1=Ouroussoff |first1=Nicolai |title=Complex, Contradictory Robert Moses |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/arts/design/02mose.html |access-date=24 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=February 2, 2007}}{{Cite Power Broker}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/nyregion/robert-moses-andrew-cuomo-and-the-saga-of-a-bronx-expressway.html|title=Why Robert Moses Keeps Rising From an Unquiet Grave|last=Dunlap, David W.|author-link=David W. Dunlap|date=March 21, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=June 28, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{cite web |title=Belt Parkway Highlights: Southern Parkway |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/Q096/highlights |publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation |access-date=14 February 2025 |quote=By utilizing unused city land for this project, Moses was able to avoid the type of large-scale population displacement that plagued projects such as the Cross-Bronx Expressway (1948-1963). Nevertheless, in order to build the Southern State, many Long Island farmers were either forced off their land or required to sell portions of their farms.}} With its offshore routing, only 46 inland buildings would be demolished and 89 families and 101 businesses displaced by the Westway according to the 1974 Impact Statement, along with the dilapidated Hudson River piers being razed.{{rp|289}} In the 1977 Final Impact Statement, this estimate had been lowered to 109 people displaced from 44 apartment units, and 92 businesses eliminated which employed 577 people.{{rp|168–169}}{{rp|86}} According to the Federal government, this would have been fewer residents displaced than any other urban Interstate project.

Supporters also argued that the new Interstate highway would divert commercial trucks and automobiles off local neighborhood streets, while the offshore right-of-way would increase pedestrian access to the waterfront. The alternatives to Westway – a grade-level Interstate, a surface boulevard, or a replacement elevated highway – would not attract enough traffic from local streets, produce larger amounts of noise and air pollution than an underground highway, and continue to wall-off local residents from the waterfront. New York State Parks Commissioner Orin Lehman supported the Westway project to create and fund Westway Park, which would to revitalize the formerly-industrial West Side waterfront. Both Lehman and State Transportation Commissioner James L. LaRocca stated in the 1980s that "The park does not exist without Westway, and Westway does not exist without the park". U.S. Senator Al D'Amato supported the project as a means of renewing the waterfront, in particular to demolish the West Side piers which he referred to as "horror sites".{{cite news |last1=Goldman |first1=Ari L. |title=Plan for Westway Gains Endorsement from U.S. Secretary |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/10/nyregion/plan-for-westway-gains-endorsement-from-us-secretary.html |access-date=14 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=February 10, 1981 |page=A1}} The Westway project further appealed to the Federal Highway Administration, as the highway’s dedicated HOV lanes and the adjacent parkland with cycleways embraced their contemporary guidelines for sustainable design.{{rp|89–90}}

The Westway was also a unique opportunity to stimulate real estate and economic development in the city using federal money, to offset the downturn from the 1975 fiscal crisis.{{rp|21–22, 61}}{{cite book |title = Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City |last = Gandy |first = Matthew |year = 2003 |publisher = MIT Press |location = Cambridge, MA |isbn = 0-262-57216-8 |page = |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=R38TXjcG-xsC&pg=PA144 |access-date = December 31, 2009 }}{{rp|144}} As mentioned above, the completion of the Westway was expected to create $7 billion in private development, and generate $40 million in real estate estate taxes for the New York City government.{{rp|213-214}} This would include selling the new landfill lots above the highway to real estate developers to construct apartments and developments. The money from these sales would be used to reimburse the federal government's funding for the project. The Westway would encourage development in Lower Manhattan, including filling vacant office space in the Financial District, as the city's economic core had shifted north to Midtown. As such, the project was supported by business associations and chambers of commerce throughout Manhattan.{{cite news |title=Business Leaders Stress Need For Rebuilt West Side Highway |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%25201974%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%25201974%252000408.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffadd7c977%26DocId%3D6441692%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D17%26hits%3Df%2B10%2B11%2B16%2B19%2B1a%2B1b%2B87%2B88%2B89%2B1a2%2B1a3%2B1a4%2B200%2B201%2B202%2B20d%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%25201974%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%25201974%252000408.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffadd7c977%26DocId%3D6441692%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D17%26hits%3Df%2B10%2B11%2B16%2B19%2B1a%2B1b%2B87%2B88%2B89%2B1a2%2B1a3%2B1a4%2B200%2B201%2B202%2B20d%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=19 February 2025 |work=Riverdale Press |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=June 27, 1974 |page=12}} The project was anticipated to create over 30,000 jobs and 100,000 man-years of work.{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam |title=Hearings on Westway End, Leaving Dozens of Questions to Be Considered |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/28/nyregion/hearings-on-westway-end-leaving-dozens-of-questions-to-be-considered.html |access-date=14 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=June 28, 1984 |page=B3}} This would reduce unemployment brought on by the city's fiscal crisis,{{rp|213-214}}{{cite news |last1=Dowdy |first1=James H. |title=Westway: "It will make a difference" |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%25201980%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%25201980%252000697_2.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D6f4b95dd%26DocId%3D6680061%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D16%26hits%3D3%2B23%2B47%2Bae%2Bb4%2B154%2B1d8%2B233%2B266%2B2df%2B32b%2B341%2B364%2B39a%2B3c2%2B407%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%25201980%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%25201980%252000697_2.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D6f4b95dd%26DocId%3D6680061%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D16%26hits%3D3%2B23%2B47%2Bae%2Bb4%2B154%2B1d8%2B233%2B266%2B2df%2B32b%2B341%2B364%2B39a%2B3c2%2B407%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=6 March 2025 |work=New York Amsterdam News |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=May 17, 1980 |page=17}}{{cite news |last1=Quindlen |first1=Anna |title=If Westway Is Dead, It Sure Shows Movement |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/13/archives/if-westway-is-dead-it-sure-shows-movement.html |access-date=11 March 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=May 13, 1979 |page=E7}} during which the city was estimated to have lost 600,000 jobs between 1969 and 1977.{{rp|89}}{{cite news |author1=Barr, Jason M. |title=The Enduring City: Four centuries of crises in New York |url=https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-enduring-city |access-date=23 April 2025 |work=City Journal |date=March 14, 2021 |quote=the downturn of 1969–70, which ushered in a decade-long wave of unemployment and population loss, with more than 600,000 jobs disappearing.}} Thus the project received heavy support from construction unions, whose workers had suffered from high unemployment due to a downturn in development during the fiscal crisis.{{rp|144}}{{cite news |title=Time to Go Westway |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/10/02/archives/time-to-go-westway.html |access-date=10 March 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=October 2, 1976 |page=24}}

The new highway would appeal to wealthier suburban residents employed by major Manhattan-based firms, who were more likely to commute to Manhattan using cars instead of mass transit.{{rp|213-214}} These commuters would be drawn from northern New Jersey, Long Island, and upstate New York.{{cite news |last1=Horwitz |title=New York's Westway; A Battle Coming To A Head |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252023%2FOlean%2520NY%2520Herald%2FOlean%2520NY%2520Times%2520Herald%25201980%2FOlean%2520NY%2520Times%2520Herald%25201980%252000521.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffdfc9ee1b%26DocId%3D8199364%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520S%26HitCount%3D7%26hits%3D1852%2B1969%2B196a%2B196b%2B1a1e%2B1a1f%2B1a20%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252023%2FOlean%2520NY%2520Herald%2FOlean%2520NY%2520Times%2520Herald%25201980%2FOlean%2520NY%2520Times%2520Herald%25201980%252000521.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffdfc9ee1b%26DocId%3D8199364%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520S%26HitCount%3D7%26hits%3D1852%2B1969%2B196a%2B196b%2B1a1e%2B1a1f%2B1a20%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=12 March 2025 |work=Olean Times Herald |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=December 6, 1980 |location=New York City |page=11}} From 1960 to 1970, the number of total commuters to Manhattan jobs from several outer suburbs such as the Hudson Valley, Suffolk County in Long Island, and Northern and Central New Jersey saw a significant increase; in particular, workers commuting to Manhattan from these suburbs via automobile dramatically increased over this period.{{rp|124–128}} This was a product of suburbanization and white flight out of New York City from World War II through the 1970s.{{rp|124–128}}{{Cite news|last=Phillips-Fein|first=Kim|date=2013-04-16|title=The Legacy of the 1970s Fiscal Crisis|journal=The Nation|language=en-US|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/legacy-1970s-fiscal-crisis/|access-date=2021-07-31|issn=0027-8378}}{{cite news |last1=Kaiser |first1=Charles |title=Blacks and Puerto Ricans a Bronx Majority |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/19/archives/blacks-and-puerto-ricans-a-bronx-majority-study-finds-blacks-and.html |access-date=14 March 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=April 19, 1976 |page=1}}

Although many West Side residents opposed the Westway project (see below),{{cite news |last1=Gelinas |first1=Nicole |title=West Side Story: How smart policies, citizen activism, and visionary entrepreneurs transformed a huge swath of Manhattan |url=https://www.city-journal.org/article/west-side-story |access-date=11 March 2025 |work=City Journal |date=February 19, 2014}} some local residents including the "Villagers for Westway" group did support the project in order to create Westway Park, as both Chelsea and Greenwich Village lacked sufficient parkland. Members of the group hoped the project would revitalize both the waterfront and their neighborhoods, which they compared to a red-light district.{{cite news |last1=Lorber |first1=Claudia |title=Pro-Westway Rally Makes a Racket, Chides Politicians |url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=tv19781019-01.1.4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- |access-date=11 March 2025 |work=The Villager (Manhattan) |agency=NYS Historic Newspapers |date=October 19, 1978 |page=4}}{{cite news |last1=Fraser |first1=C. Gerald |title='Villagers for Westway’ Picket at Koch's Apartment |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/12/archives/villagers-for-westway-picket-at-kochs-apartment-a-complicated-issue.html |access-date=11 March 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=March 12, 1978 |page=41}}

The Westway drew loose comparisons to the Big Dig or Central Artery/Tunnel project in Boston also planned in the 1970s, which would replace the elevated Central Artery (I-93) along Boston Harbor with an underground highway, while a new linear park (the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway) would be created atop the new tunnel. Both projects were intended to replace an unpopular and dilapidated costal elevated highway to increase access to the waterfront, while erecting new parkland along said waterfront.{{rp|88–93, 102}}{{cite news |last1=Lichtenstein |first1=Grace |title=Does Boston's Plan Show How to Go on Westway?; Additional Aid Cited; Boston's Transit Plan May Show New York How to Goon Westway |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/02/27/archives/new-jersey-pages-does-bostons-plan-show-how-to-go-on-westway.html |access-date=6 March 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=February 27, 1978}}{{cite news |last1=McNichol |first1=Dan |title=Big Dig Nearing Light Of Costly Tunnel's End |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/news/hub-guide-getting-around-big-dig-nearing-light-of-costly-tunnel-s-end.html |access-date=6 March 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=July 25, 2004}} A major difference between the projects was that the Big Dig utilized the existing I-93 right-of-way through Downtown Boston, while the Westway would require offshore landfilling. The Big Dig also faced lengthy setbacks and delays,{{rp|88–122}} but began construction in 1991 and was opened to traffic in 2003, with the greenway atop opened in 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/highway/TheBigDig.aspx |title=The Big Dig - Highway Division |publisher=Massdot.state.ma.us |date=2006-01-13 |access-date=2015-05-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120103184615/http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/highway/TheBigDig.aspx|archive-date=2012-01-03|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news |first=Steve |last= LeBlanc |title= On December 31, It's Official: Boston's Big Dig Will Be Done |newspaper= The Washington Post |date=December 26, 2007 |access-date= December 26, 2007 |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/25/AR2007122500600.html}}{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/10/greenway_inaugu.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007054214/http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/10/greenway_inaugu.html |archive-date=2008-10-07 |title=A beautiful day on the Greenway|work=Boston.com|first=Megan|last=Woolhouse|date=October 4, 2008}}

File:Protesters demonstrating against the Westway project in New York City.jpg

When the Westway plan was conceived in the 1970s, the project was facing a political environment that was less supportive towards freeway construction.{{rp|139–147}}{{rp|85–88}} Across the country, new freeway proposals would face protests and lawsuits from the public, who felt more empowered to fight against the projects and the government officials that pushed for their construction. Public opposition would focus on environmental concerns and the displacement of residents by highways.{{cite book |author1=Alan A. Altshuler |author2=David E. Luberoff |title=Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment |date=2003 |publisher=Brookings Institution Press, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy |location=Washington, D. C. |isbn=0815701306 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UZY5vCO06NQC&pg=PA89 |access-date=6 March 2025|quote=the CA/T project's near twin, Westway.}}{{rp|85–88}}{{cite web |first=Richard F.|last=Weingroff|title=Addressing the Quiet Crisis: Origins of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 |url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/nepa/01.cfm |publisher=Federal Highway Administration |access-date=6 March 2025 |date=December 1968}} By this time, numerous planned highways for New York City, such as the Lower Manhattan and Mid-Manhattan Expressways, had already been cancelled due to public opposition. Nearly all of these highways were originally proposed by Robert Moses, whose methods for completing projects – referred to as “bulldozer diplomacy” – had created a public distrust of government works projects including highways.{{rp|139–152}} The Westway also faced greater environmental regulations than previous highways during the Moses era.{{cite book |author1=Gelinas, Nicole |title=Movement: New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car |date=2025 |publisher=Fordham University Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mRQkEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA97 |access-date=23 April 2025}}{{rp|80–81}}{{cite news |last1=Goldstein |first1=Eric |title=Westway Foes Plot Permanent Roadblock |url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=tv19800626-01.1.4&srpos=2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22westway%22--------- |access-date=15 March 2025 |work=The Villager (Manhattan) |agency=NYS Historic Newspapers |date=June 26, 1980 |page=1, 6}} For example, after the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act in 1969, Interstate Highway projects and other federal projects required the completion of environmental impact statements prior to construction.{{cite news |last1=Lydon |first1=Christopher |title=Interstate Highway Construction Faces Environmental Challenge |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/30/archives/interstate-highway-construction-faces-environmental-challenge.html |access-date=6 March 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=November 30, 1971 |page=89}} The Westway would further have to comply with the federal Clean Air and Clean Water Acts passed in the 1970s.{{rp|80–81}}

Moses himself, who also oversaw the Miller Highway and Battery Tunnel among other completed highways, opposed the Westway project.{{cite news |last1=Shinoff |first1=Paul |title=Watching New York City's War Over Westway |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1978/07/02/watching-new-york-citys-war-over-westway/b3dafd42-0de9-4caa-b83d-823828babc0a/ |access-date=26 March 2024 |work=The Washington Post |date=July 1, 1978 |location=New York City}} In 1974, Moses published a rebuttal to the Westway plan through the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority called "West Side Fiasco", in which he criticized the high cost of the plan and its usage of federal funds. He instead proposed a replacement elevated highway running farther east and inland above the 60th Street Rail Yard, where Riverside South is now located.{{cite book |last1=Buttenwieser |first1=Ann L. |author2=Stern, Robert A.M. |title=Manhattan Water-Bound: Manhattan’s Waterfront from the Seventeenth Century to the Present |date=1999 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |edition=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KB2MsihpwRQC&pg=PA215 |access-date=31 March 2024}}{{rp|215}}{{cite news |title=The West Side Highway; Relocation, an Idea As Old as Moses |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/22/arts/l-the-west-side-highway-relocation-an-idea-as-old-as-moses-658290.html |access-date=31 March 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=July 22, 1990|last=Gutman|first=Daniel}} By 1978, Moses suggested the Westway budget should be used instead to construct low-income housing. Architect John Belle of the Beyer Blinder Belle firm proposed his own alternative design in 1980, on behalf of Manhattan Community Board 2 representing Greenwich Village. Belle's design would be mostly a surface boulevard with select underground sections, along with an {{convert|100|acre|ha|adj=on}} park.{{rp|215}}{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam |title=Westway Alternatives Raising New Questions |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/20/nyregion/westway-alternatives-raising-new-questions.html |access-date=31 March 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=September 20, 1985 |page=B2}}

The Westway project was unique as it faced opposition from both sides of the political spectrum, uniting fiscal conservatives who opposed the high costs of the project with more liberal environmentalist groups and mass transit advocates.{{rp|145}}

• "And here we are, bankrupt city, going to beg Washington, asking them to give us an extension of some aid packages. And they say: 'Why you ninnies - we've given you a billion dollars. Why don't you take it?' And we say: 'Well, we want it another way.'"
• concerns Westway would wall-off Battery Park City from rest of Lower Manhattan. The portion of the highway running between Battery Park City and the World Trade Center would be in an open cut in the median of West Street instead of being fully underground, with entrance ramps leading down to the highway from West Street.{{rp|28–30, 161}}{{rp|4-3, 6-2}}

• committing New York's transport infrastructure to motor vehicles using petroleum, just after the 1973 OAPEC oil crisis.{{cite news |last1=Kihss |first1=Peter |title=Federal Agency Finds Westway Pollution Peril |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/17/archives/federal-agency-finds-westway-pollution-peril.html |access-date=4 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=February 17, 1977 |page=81}}

• Branded “environmentally unsatisfactory” by the EPA in 1977, who predicted increased air pollution from the new Westway traffic, in addition to harm to fish in Hudson.

The project was also criticized for pandering to real estate developers, using taxpayer money to help them create luxury apartments. U.S. Congressman Ted Weiss who represented Manhattan's West Side testified to Congress in 1985 that "Westway is an exorbitant real estate development scheme posing as an interstate highway...If Westway is ever built, this nation's taxpayers will have financed the creation of up to 100 acres of prime waterfront property for commercial, industrial, and residential development."{{cite journal |title=Hearings: Thursday, May 16, 1985 |journal=Extension of the Nation's Highway, Highway Safety, and Public Transit Programs: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, May 16, 23; June 5, 1985 |date=May 16, 1985 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vs_llcCevnsC&pg=PA17 |access-date=11 March 2025 |publisher=United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure}}{{rp|17}}{{cite news |title=Ted Weiss Testifies on Westway |url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=tv19850613-01.1.10&srpos=3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22westway%22--------- |access-date=15 March 2025 |work=The Villager (Manhattan) |agency=NYS Historic Newspapers |date=June 13, 1985 |page=10}} This sentiment was shared by others including Congressmen Frank J. Guarini and James J. Howard, both of New Jersey.{{rp|14}} U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey introduced legislation to stop federal funding for the Westway in 1985, opposing the use of the funding for luxury real estate development.{{cite news |last1=Engelberg |first1=Stephen |title=New Challenge to Westway Tried in Congress |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/07/nyregion/new-challenge-to-westway-tried-in-congress.html |access-date=14 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=April 7, 1985 |page=23}}

Also criticized was the high cost of the project at "$500 million per mile" ($2 billon for a {{convert|4|mi|km|adj=on}} highway).{{cite news |last1=Peck |first1=Louis |title=We$tway: A whooping pricetag of $500 million per mile |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201983%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201983%252009543_1.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D1224e55%26DocId%3D7890329%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D622%2B623%2B783%2B784%2B825%2B826%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201983%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201983%252009543_1.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D1224e55%26DocId%3D7890329%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D622%2B623%2B783%2B784%2B825%2B826%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=6 May 2024 |work=Sunday Journal-News |date=December 11, 1983 |page=1}}{{cite news |last1=Peck |first1=Louis |title=We$tway: A whooping pricetag of $500 million per mile |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201983%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201983%252009548_2.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D6d10c5e9%26DocId%3D7890338%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D22%26hits%3D2%2B3%2B9%2B14%2B2b%2B3a%2B69%2B7a%2Ba1%2Baf%2Bf4%2B113%2B122%2B182%2B19a%2B1a5%2B377%2B378%2B37b%2B37c%2B380%2B381%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201983%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201983%252009548_2.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D6d10c5e9%26DocId%3D7890338%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D22%26hits%3D2%2B3%2B9%2B14%2B2b%2B3a%2B69%2B7a%2Ba1%2Baf%2Bf4%2B113%2B122%2B182%2B19a%2B1a5%2B377%2B378%2B37b%2B37c%2B380%2B381%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=6 May 2024 |work=Sunday Journal-News |date=December 11, 1983 |page=7}} Many critics believed that the U.S. Government's cost estimate was too low, and that the expenses could balloon into the tens of billions as the project progressed, just as Boston's Big Dig project had.{{rp|97, 100, 102}}{{rp|17}}{{cite news |last1=Omicinski |first1=John |title=The Westway Debate |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%25202%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Observer%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Observer%25201982.pdf%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Observer%25201982%2520-%25203004.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa6e5f5e7%26DocId%3D2394017%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520F%26HitCount%3D23%26hits%3D5bc%2B5c4%2B5f1%2B622%2B629%2B664%2B689%2B69d%2B6d1%2B6e4%2B6ef%2B700%2B737%2B751%2B782%2B822%2B85b%2B862%2B892%2B8ae%2B8f0%2B904%2Ba63%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%25202%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Observer%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Observer%25201982.pdf%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Observer%25201982%2520-%25203004.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa6e5f5e7%26DocId%3D2394017%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520F%26HitCount%3D23%26hits%3D5bc%2B5c4%2B5f1%2B622%2B629%2B664%2B689%2B69d%2B6d1%2B6e4%2B6ef%2B700%2B737%2B751%2B782%2B822%2B85b%2B862%2B892%2B8ae%2B8f0%2B904%2Ba63%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=12 March 2025 |work=Observer-Dispatch |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=March 28, 1982}} The high costs and controversy surrounding the project led it to be labeled a boondoggle and white elephant by critics,{{rp|145}}{{cite news |last1=Langer |first1=Gary |title=Westway: The twisted track of a straight road |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201985%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201985%252006905_2.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffe50b8749%26DocId%3D8207682%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D22%26hits%3D1%2B19%2B55%2B6a%2B88%2B9d%2B10c%2B145%2B160%2B191%2B1dd%2B211%2B28b%2B2a2%2B2ca%2B312%2B74f%2B750%2B753%2B754%2B758%2B759%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201985%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201985%252006905_2.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffe50b8749%26DocId%3D8207682%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D22%26hits%3D1%2B19%2B55%2B6a%2B88%2B9d%2B10c%2B145%2B160%2B191%2B1dd%2B211%2B28b%2B2a2%2B2ca%2B312%2B74f%2B750%2B753%2B754%2B758%2B759%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=6 May 2024 |work=The Journal News |date=August 11, 1985 |location=New York City |page=B5}}{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam |title=Hearings Open on Whtehr Westway Is 'Imperative' or Is a 'White Elephant' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/27/nyregion/hearings-open-on-whether-westway-is-imperative-or-is-a-white-elephant.html |access-date=6 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=June 27, 1984 |page=B1}} earning nicknames such as "Golden Albatross"{{cite news |last1=Meyer |first1=Peter |title=The Ultimate Traffic Tangle; The Golden Albatross |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WeUCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA45 |access-date=6 May 2024 |work=New York (magazine) |date=February 11, 1980 |page=39-46}} and "Wasteway". The Westway project earned Senator William Proxmire's informal Golden Fleece Award in 1981, given to projects that squandered taxpayer money. Also awarded was the Interstate 70 Glenwood Canyon project.{{rp|97–98}}{{cite news |last1=Krebs |first1=Albin |last2=Thomas |first2=Robert Mcg., Jr. |title=Westway Is Among Golden Fleece Winners |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/11/nyregion/notes-on-people-westway-is-among-golden-fleece-winners.html |access-date=6 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=November 11, 1981 |page=B8}}

The Westway would affect Lower Manhattan communities, such as Greenwich Village, that had successfully halted the construction of the Lower Manhattan Expressway in the 1960s.{{rp|144–145}} These same communities also opposed the construction of the Westway. When Mayor Abe Beame and Governor Hugh Carey announced the selection of the Modified Outboard route for the project in March 1975, five of the six community boards on Manhattan's West Side opposed Westway, the lone supporter being Community Board 4 representing Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen. Additional community opposition came from Upper Manhattan residents living within Community Board 7 near Riverside Park, north of the project area. These residents feared that the project would inevitably be extended north towards the George Washington Bridge, disrupting their communities and the park, and converting the car-only Henry Hudson Parkway into an Interstate facilitating trucks.{{cite news |last1=Burks |first1=Edward C. |title=Mayor Acts to Speed Emergency Repairs On West Side Road |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/21/archives/mayor-acts-to-speed-emergency-repairs-on-west-side-road-beame-speed.html |access-date=11 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=June 21, 1974 |page=1}}{{cite news |last1=Burks |first1=Edward C. |title=Interstate Highway Backed for West Side |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/08/archives/interstate-highway-backed-for-west-side-carey-and-beame-approve-us.html |access-date=11 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=March 8, 1975 |page=1}}

Some West Side residents and environmental groups opposed not only the Westway Interstate project, but also the replacement of the Miller Elevated Highway with a wide surface (arterial) boulevard, claiming the boulevard would also increase pollution and divert trucks and additional car traffic into local communities. These groups predicted that the demolition of the elevated highway and creation of an interim boulevard would evolve into a permanent solution.{{cite news |last1=Burks |first1=Edward C. |title=West Side Road Stirs New Fears |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/11/12/archives/west-side-road-stirs-new-fears.html |access-date=11 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=November 12, 1975 |page=90}} West Side residents would also criticize the slow speed of repairs to the West Side Highway and Henry Hudson Parkway following the 1973 elevated highway collapse, accusing the city government of "stalling" to favor replacing the route with the Interstate.{{cite news |last1=Burks |first1=Edward C. |title=City Accused of Lagging On West Side Road Job |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/14/archives/city-accused-of-lagging-on-west-side-road-job-city-assailed-on-west.html |access-date=12 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=June 14, 1974 |page=1}} The West Side Ad Hoc Committee Against the Interstate Highway, an anti-Westway group, filed a lawsuit to stop the demolition of the elevated highway in 1976 as a preemptive act to prevent future Westway Interstate or arterial road construction,{{cite news |last1=Burks |first1=Edward C. |title=City to Rebuild Part Of Hudson Parkway |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/06/01/archives/city-to-rebuild-part-of-hudson-parkway-new-york-city-will-rebuild.html |access-date=14 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=June 1, 1976 |page=1}}{{cite news |last1=Lichtenstein |first1=Grace |title=Some Fear the Westway Is Making Inroads |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/02/20/archives/new-jersey-pages-some-fear-the-westway-is-making-inroads-getting-a.html |access-date=13 March 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=February 20, 1978 |page=10}}{{cite news |title=Suit Opposes Demolition Of the West Side Highway From Jane to 26th Street |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/24/archives/suit-opposes-demolition-of-the-west-side-highway-from-jane-to-26th.html |access-date=14 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=November 24, 1976 |page=43}}{{cite news |title=Westway Feud Continues; Community Groups File Suit |url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=tv19761125-01.1.5&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- |access-date=13 March 2025 |work=The Villager (Manhattan) |agency=NYS Historic Newspapers |date=November 25, 1976}} despite the elevated highway posing as a safety hazard. Barry Mallin, a lawyer representing the committee, called demolishing the elevated highway "the old Robert Moses trick of getting a foot in the door".

Numerous politicians and public figures changed their opinion on the project as time went on. For example, in 1977 while serving as a U.S. Congressman representing Greenwich Village and campaigning for Mayoral election, Ed Koch opposed the Westway project, calling it "an economic and environmental disaster", and instead supported the trade-in provision in the project for mass transit funds (see below).{{cite news |last1=Weisman |first1=Steven R. |title=Koch Calls Westway a ‘Disaster’ And Vows it ‘Will Never Be Built’ |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/28/archives/koch-calls-westway-a-disaster-and-vows-it-will-never-be-built.html |access-date=10 February 2025 |date=October 28, 1977 |page=1}}{{rp|1349–1351}}{{cite news |title=Westway opponents dig in for fight |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=Tarrytown Daily News |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=January 9, 1977|url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252023%2FTarrytown%2520Ny%2520Daily%2520News%2FTarrytown%2520NY%2520Daily%2520News%25201977%2FTarrytown%2520NY%2520Daily%2520News%25201977%2520-%25200118.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffbda6fed6%26DocId%3D5578000%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520S%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D2a7%2B2a8%2B2a9%2B33d%2B5c7%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252023%2FTarrytown%2520Ny%2520Daily%2520News%2FTarrytown%2520NY%2520Daily%2520News%25201977%2FTarrytown%2520NY%2520Daily%2520News%25201977%2520-%25200118.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffbda6fed6%26DocId%3D5578000%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520S%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D2a7%2B2a8%2B2a9%2B33d%2B5c7%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false}} However, by the time he took office as Mayor in 1978, Koch began to support the highway project, after being promised $800 million in additional funding from Governor Hugh Carey to support the city's mass transit system and prevent a fare increase.{{rp|1349–1351}}{{cite news |author1=Associated Press |title=Pact Reached For Westway |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%25205%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Press%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Press%25201978.pdf%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Press%25201978%2520-%25202877.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D2e4c26b8%26DocId%3D6030813%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520O%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D9a0%2Bc40%2Bc56%2Bc57%2Bc58%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%25205%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Press%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Press%25201978.pdf%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Press%25201978%2520-%25202877.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D2e4c26b8%26DocId%3D6030813%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520O%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D9a0%2Bc40%2Bc56%2Bc57%2Bc58%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=Observer-Dispatch |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=1978 |location=Albany, New York}}{{cite news |last1=Weisman |first1=Steven R. |title=Koch Backs Westway After Carey Pledges 50C Fare and More Aid |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/20/archives/new-jersey-pages-koch-backs-westway-after-carey-pledges-50c-fare.html |access-date=13 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=April 20, 1978 |location=Albany, New York |page=21}} Similarly, Carey had called the Westway an "ecological disaster" during his 1974 gubernatorial campaign, but by 1978 was a proponent of the project.https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/19/archives/westway-panic-button.html In support of the Westway in 1984, Mayor Koch emphasized that the Westway "promises so many benefits to this city - and at so little cost: 'zero dollars'", as the federal and New York state governments would pay for the entire project. Another politician who had a change of heart was Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who in 1969 penned an essay titled "Soulless City" denouncing urban highways and the accidents and pollution created by increased automobile usage, but through the 1970s and '80s pushed for the completion of the Westway as a U.S. Senator.{{rp|86}}{{cite journal |author1=Moynihan, Daniel Patrick |title=The Soulless City |journal=American Heritage (magazine) |date=February 1969 |volume=20 |issue=2 |url=https://www.americanheritage.com/soulless-city |access-date=23 April 2025}}

The information used in the debates over the Westway was also at times contradictory. For example, a joint analysis by Governor Carey and Mayor Koch in 1977 concluded that the Westway would create more jobs than any alternative mass transit projects, with 86,000 man-years of labor from the Westway verses 73,500 from mass transit alternatives. This conflicted with a study sponsored by the Sierra Club which claimed the Westway would generate 78,000 man-years of work, while the mass transit projects would create 103,000.{{rp|1349–1351}}

Like the elevated highway, the [[New York City Subway system was also in disrepair in the 1970s due to lack of funding and maintenance.|thumb|right]]

A major contention point for opponents of the Westway was the "trade-in" provision of the project, in which should the highway project fail, the federal funding could be diverted towards mass transit projects within the city. Within this provision known as the Interstate Transfer Program, enacted as part of Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973, states and cities were allowed to cancel Interstate routes or sections of routes that were proposed or incomplete and deemed "non-essential" to the national highway network, and transfer the funding to mass transit or non-Interstate road projects instead.{{rp|ix-3–ix6}}{{cite journal |author1=Federal Highway Administration |title=23 CFR Part 476; RIN 2125–AF00; Interstate Highway System; Final Rule |journal=Federal Register |date=November 26, 2003 |volume=68 |issue=228 |page=66338 |url=https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/11/26/03-29596/interstate-highway-system#footnote-1-p66339 |access-date=10 February 2025 |publisher=Office of the Federal Register |quote=This final rule removes regulations that prescribed policies and procedures for implementation of section 103(e)(4) of title 23, United States Code, which permitted the withdrawal of Interstate System segments and the substitution of public mass transit or highway projects or both.}}{{cite news |last1=Rosenbaum |first1=David |title=Highway Funds Spur New Fight |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/08/archives/highway-funds-spur-new-fight-close-vote-likely-senate-vote-cited.html |work=The New York Times |date=April 8, 1973 |page=B14}}{{cite book |author1=United States Conference of Mayors |title=Interstate Substitutions: A Handbook for Mayors |date=October 1980 |publisher=United States Department of Transportation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kcjCXRQq2Q8C&pg=PA9 |access-date=10 February 2025}}{{cite web |title=FY 1980 Summary of UMTA'S Transit Assistance Program |url=https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/476/dot_476_DS1.pdf#page=27 |publisher=Urban Mass Transportation Administration |access-date=10 February 2025 |location=Washington, D. C. |date=1980}}{{rp|1, 26–30}} The federal government would cover 85 percent of the substitute projects' costs, compared to 90 percent of an Interstate Highway project. The transfer provision was introduced in response to political opposition to new Interstate projects across the country, while local governments were hesitant to relinquish the federal funding by cancelling these routes. The program allowed local governments to keep the funding and divert it to other transport projects.{{cite news |author1=The New York Times News Service |title=Federal Highway Allotments Turned In for Transit Funds |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252021%2FBuffalo%2520NY%2520Courier%2520Express%2FBuffalo%2520NY%2520Courier%2520Express%25201978%2FBuffalo%2520NY%2520Courier%2520Express%25201978%252004916_2.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa504ca6a%26DocId%3D5109663%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520V%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D31c%2B31d%2B3cb%2B3cc%2B6cd%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252021%2FBuffalo%2520NY%2520Courier%2520Express%2FBuffalo%2520NY%2520Courier%2520Express%25201978%2FBuffalo%2520NY%2520Courier%2520Express%25201978%252004916_2.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffa504ca6a%26DocId%3D5109663%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520V%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3D31c%2B31d%2B3cb%2B3cc%2B6cd%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=Buffalo Courier-Express |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=December 3, 1978 |location=Washington, D. C. |page=A2}}

The trade-in provision had already been exercised by New York City in 1979, when a $270 million lane-expansion project for the Long Island Expressway in Queens was cancelled in exchange for $80 million to fund road maintenance, and the remaining $190 million for mass transit work.{{cite web |last1=Weingroff |first1=Richard F. |title=Busting the Trust: Unraveling the Highway Trust Fund 1968-1973 |url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/busting_the_trust.pdf |publisher=Federal Highway Administration |access-date=11 February 2025 |location=Washington, D. C. |date=June 2013}}{{rp|1242}}{{cite news |author1=Associated Press |title=L. I. Expressway repairs deferred; mass transit gains |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201978%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201978%252003082_1.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D150f4c7d%26DocId%3D7778963%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D4%26hits%3Dac9%2Bafa%2Bafb%2Bafc%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201978%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201978%252003082_1.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D150f4c7d%26DocId%3D7778963%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D4%26hits%3Dac9%2Bafa%2Bafb%2Bafc%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=26 February 2025 |work=The Journal News |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=December 24, 1978 |page=7B}} By this time, New York City and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) lacked funding for the city's public transit system, including new subway lines such as the 63rd Street Line and Second Avenue Subway.{{cite web|url=http://wagner.nyu.edu/files/news/rescue.pdf|title=From Rescue to Renaissance: The Achievements of the MTA Capital Program 1982 - 2004|first1=Mark |last1=Seaman |first2=Allison L. C. |last2=de Cerreño|first3=Seth |last3=English-Young|website=nyu.edu|publisher=Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management |access-date=October 14, 2016}}{{Cite Routes Not Taken}}{{cite web|last1=Johnson|first1=Kirk|title=Big Changes For Subways Are to Begin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/09/nyregion/big-changes-for-subways-are-to-begin.html?pagewanted=all|website=The New York Times|access-date=July 14, 2015|date=December 9, 1988}}{{cite book|author1=Roger P. Roess|author2=Gene Sansone|title=The Wheels That Drove New York: A History of the New York City Transit System|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qfZ0VxuLoc0C&pg=PA416|date=August 23, 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-30484-2}}{{rp|416–417}}{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/03/21/76540541.pdf |title=Beame Trims Plan For New Subway|last=Burks|first=Edward C.|date=March 21, 1975|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=October 20, 2011|page=1|archive-date=September 30, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230930165921/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/03/21/76540541.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|url-status=live}} Lack of funding for repairs and maintenance led to frequent derailments and accidents in the subway system.{{cite news |last1=Henry |first1=John |title=When the Westway was lost, N.Y. won: Learning from a momentous decision 25 years ago |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2010/09/26/when-the-westway-was-lost-ny-won-learning-from-a-momentous-decision-25-years-ago/ |access-date=24 February 2025 |work=New York Daily News |date=January 11, 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_-ICAAAAMBAJ&q=may+20%2C+1970+nyc+subway+crash&pg=PA41 |title=Subway Roulette: The Game Is Getting Dangerous |work=New York |date=June 15, 1970 |access-date=July 23, 2015 |author=Thomas R. Brooks}} The 1977 Westway Final Impact Statement predicted that should the Westway be cancelled, a large portion of the trade-in budget would be used to construct the 63rd Street Line and the connected new Queens Trunk Line.{{rp|271–272}} Meanwhile, New York state also lacked the budget to support an $805 million mass transit plan to comply with the Federal Clean Air Act; failure to comply with the act would suspend all federal funding for highway projects including the Westway. The trade-in budget from the Westway could be used to fund the state transit plan.{{cite news |last1=Maitland |first1=Leslie |title=Westway's Fate Is Still Uncertain After Eight Years of Controversy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/15/archives/westways-fate-is-still-uncertain-after-eight-years-of-controversy.html |access-date=11 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=October 15, 1979 |page=A1}}

Enacting the trade-in provision was supported by mass transit advocacy groups, with the hope that it would prevent future fare hikes for subway and bus fares. Transit labor unions also supported the trade-in to fund both transit improvements and raises for workers.{{cite news |last1=Browne |first1=J. Zamgba |title=Black transit group presses pact rejection |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%25201978%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%25201978%252000529_1.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D67f861ce%26DocId%3D6675789%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D34e%2B34f%2B461%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%25201978%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Amsterdam%2520News%25201978%252000529_1.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D67f861ce%26DocId%3D6675789%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D34e%2B34f%2B461%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=13 February 2025 |work=New York Amsterdam News |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=May 20, 1978 |page=1}} West Side congresswoman Bella Abzug was a major opponent of the Westway project and advocate for the trade-in program, and campaigned as such while running for Mayor against Ed Koch in 1977.{{cite news |last1=Blumenthal |first1=Ralph |title=U.S. Cuts $327 Million From Estimated Cost of Westway Project |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/07/12/archives/us-cuts-327-million-from-estimated-cost-of-westway-project.html |access-date=12 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=July 12, 1977 |page=12}} Coalitions from other boroughs, meanwhile, supported the trade-in provision as the Westway would have little economic benefit outside of Manhattan, while the trade-in could go to transit projects within their boroughs.{{cite news |title=Protest Westway Expansion |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Home%2520Reporter%2520and%2520Sunset%2520News%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Home%2520Reporter%2520and%2520Sunset%2520News%25201979%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Home%2520Reporter%2520and%2520Sunset%2520News%25201979%252000109.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D778a5e01%26DocId%3D8029820%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D2%26hits%3D90%2B91%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Home%2520Reporter%2520and%2520Sunset%2520News%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Home%2520Reporter%2520and%2520Sunset%2520News%25201979%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Home%2520Reporter%2520and%2520Sunset%2520News%25201979%252000109.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D778a5e01%26DocId%3D8029820%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D2%26hits%3D90%2B91%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=24 February 2025 |work=Brooklyn Home Reporter and Sunset News |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=December 22, 1978}}{{cite news |title=Queens To Get Transit $? |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252021%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520Queens%2520Tribune%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520Astoria%2520Tribune%25201976%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520Astoria%2520Tribune%25201976-1977%252000391.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffc97c5140%26DocId%3D3885961%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520V%26HitCount%3D7%26hits%3D4e6%2B52f%2B57a%2B5b8%2B5e0%2B877%2B878%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252021%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520Queens%2520Tribune%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520Astoria%2520Tribune%25201976%2FFlushing%2520NY%2520Astoria%2520Tribune%25201976-1977%252000391.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffc97c5140%26DocId%3D3885961%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520V%26HitCount%3D7%26hits%3D4e6%2B52f%2B57a%2B5b8%2B5e0%2B877%2B878%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=6 March 2025 |work=Queens Tribune |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=August 3, 1977 |page=4}}

• 1981 - Westway declared non-essential by federal gov't; eligible for trade-in.{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam |title=Complications Over Trade-In for Westway |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/19/nyregion/complications-over-trade-in-for-westway.html |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=September 19, 1985 |page=B1}}

In January 1982, the Sierra Club and other plaintiffs filed suit against the United States Army Corps of Engineers to stop the construction of the Westway, citing potential effects of landfilling in the Hudson River on the population of striped bass and other fish species in the Hudson River. At this time, landfilling for the project was planned to start later in the year.{{cite news |title=Road Plan's Death More than Simply Another Fish Story |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1985/10/29/road-plans-death-more-than-simply-another-fish-story/ |work=Chicago Tribune |date=October 29, 1985}}{{cite news |last1=Lubasch |first1=Arnold H. |title=Westway is on Trial Over Issue of Stripped Bass |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/24/nyregion/westway-is-on-trial-over-issue-of-striped-bass.html |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=January 24, 1982 |page=35}} The Hudson River and the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia are the two main spawning and nursery locations for East Coast striped bass, which later migrate into the Atlantic Ocean.{{cite news |last1=Bryant |first1=Nelson |title=The Striped Bass and Westway |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/11/sports/outdoors-the-striped-bass-and-westway.html |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=July 11, 1982}} The bass use the Hudson River piers to overwinter, attracted by warmer shallow waters in the river compared to the ocean.{{cite news |last1=Hornblower |first1=Margot |title=Collisions Over a Highway: Last Roadblock Near for Long-Delayed N.Y. Westway |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/07/09/collisions-over-a-highway/c67bfe5c-1ced-4ffe-8db6-8210d574ea07/ |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=The Washington Post |date=July 8, 1984 |location=New York City}} During the 1970s and 1980s, the striped bass population in the ocean had declined by 90 percent, due in part to pollution in the Hudson and Chesapeake.{{cite news |last1=Kirshenbaum |first1=Jerry |title=A Bass Ackward Attempt to Save the Striper |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1984/10/29/scorecard |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=Sports Illustrated |date=October 29, 1984}}{{cite news |last1=Shabecoff |first1=Philip |title=Striped Bass, In Comeback, Spur Debate Over Fishing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/24/science/striped-bass-in-comeback-spur-debate-over-fishing.html |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=May 24, 1988 |page=C1}} Stripped bass population levels were not only a concern for environmental groups, but also had economic consequences for recreational game fishing and the commercial fishing industry.{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam |title=Bass Danger Cited in Westway Study |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/16/nyregion/bass-danger-cited-in-westway-study.html |access-date=6 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=May 16, 1984 |page=1}}

In July 1982, federal judge Thomas P. Griesa ruled against the highway project, stopping the usage of federal funds for the Westway. Earlier that year, Griesa had also blocked the beginning of landfill operations, and the purchasing of city-owned land by New York State for the project. In his 94-page ruling, Griesa agreed with the plaintiff's accusation that the 1977 Westway Environmental Impact Statement conducted by the Army Corps of Engineers intentionally misrepresented the environmental conditions in the Hudson River. Griesa refuted the impact statement's claim that high pollution in the river created oxygen levels too low to support fish. He also found that both the New York State DOT and the federal government had distorted information from a 1980 study on the bass habitat in the Hudson, in order to convince the Army Corps to issue the dredge-and-fill permit needed to begin the project.{{cite news |last1=Kirshenbaum |first1=Jerry |title=Indignation over Westway |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1982/07/12/scorecard |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=Sports Illustrated |date=July 12, 1982 |page=11}}{{cite news |author1=Oreskes, Michael|title=Westway Court Actions Seen as Costly Setback |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/02/nyregion/westway-court-actions-seen-as-costly-setback.html |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=July 2, 1982 |page=B3}}{{cite news|last=Shipp|first=E.R.|title=Man in the News – Meticulous Judge in Westway Case|newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/22/nyregion/man-in-the-news-meticulous-judge-in-westway-case.html|date=April 22, 1982|access-date=September 11, 2017}} Griesa also accused Westway project director Lowell K. Bridwell of withholding information about the fish population in the river.{{cite news |last1=Feinstein |first1=John |title=Panel Faults Hughes Cabinet Member For Testimony on New York Project |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1983/02/24/panel-faults-hughes-cabinet-member-for-testimony-on-new-york-project/e1c635bb-4241-47df-8fc3-853fc4e9e95e/ |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=The Washington Post |date=February 23, 1983 |location=Annapolis, Maryland}} However, Griesa had dismissed other concerns about the Westway project, including increased air pollution from traffic, and the possibility of flooding in New Jersey following the landfill operations.{{cite news |last1=Herman |first1=Robin |title=Judge Reduces Westway Suits to Single Issue |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/14/nyregion/judge-reduces-westway-suits-to-single-issue.html |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=December 14, 1981 |page=1}}

• 1983: Westway "has now become a luxury that the city and state probably cannot afford."{{cite news |author1=Associated Press |title=Despite bad report, Cuomo behind Westway |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201983%2520Grayscale%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201983%2520a%2520Grayscale%2520-%25206550.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5bfa7630%26DocId%3D1613630%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520E%26HitCount%3D8%26hits%3D15b%2B175%2B193%2B1b6%2B204%2B245%2B25f%2B29d%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201983%2520Grayscale%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201983%2520a%2520Grayscale%2520-%25206550.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5bfa7630%26DocId%3D1613630%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520E%26HitCount%3D8%26hits%3D15b%2B175%2B193%2B1b6%2B204%2B245%2B25f%2B29d%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=7 May 2024 |work=Yonkers Herald Statesman |date=May 4, 1983 |location=Albany, New York |page=8}}
• 1984: Second EIS by Army Corps.

In February 1985, the federal Environmental Protection Agency approved the construction of the Westway, following further studies on bass populations. The agency had previously opposed the project.{{cite news |title=EPA U-turns on Westway |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/487107598/ |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=New York Daily News |agency=Newspapers.com |date=February 21, 1985 |page=99}} However on August 7, 1985, Judge Griesa upheld his previous injunction, permanently banning construction of the Westway.{{cite news |last1=Elkin |first1=Larry |title=Westway backers to appeal: Federal judge rules no to highway plan |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201985%2520Grayscale%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201985%2520Grayscale%2520-%25202392.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D56e10c6f%26DocId%3D1655131%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520E%26HitCount%3D9%26hits%3D471%2B48a%2B4b1%2B4e3%2B4f8%2B516%2B57b%2B589%2B5b1%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201985%2520Grayscale%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201985%2520Grayscale%2520-%25202392.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D56e10c6f%26DocId%3D1655131%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520E%26HitCount%3D9%26hits%3D471%2B48a%2B4b1%2B4e3%2B4f8%2B516%2B57b%2B589%2B5b1%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=7 May 2024 |work=Yonkers Herald Statesman |date=August 8, 1985 |location=New York City |page=1}}{{cite news |last1=Elkin |first1=Larry |title=Westway backers to appeal: Federal judge rules no to highway plan |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201985%2520Grayscale%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201985%2520Grayscale%2520-%25202406.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D56eb3584%26DocId%3D1655145%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520E%26HitCount%3D9%26hits%3D22c%2B25e%2B28f%2B2a8%2B30d%2B321%2B334%2B352%2B38f%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201985%2520Grayscale%2FYonkers%2520NY%2520Herald%2520Statesman%25201985%2520Grayscale%2520-%25202406.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D56eb3584%26DocId%3D1655145%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520E%26HitCount%3D9%26hits%3D22c%2B25e%2B28f%2B2a8%2B30d%2B321%2B334%2B352%2B38f%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=7 May 2024 |work=Yonkers Herald Statesman |date=August 8, 1985 |location=New York City |page=15}}{{cite news |last1=Tsiantar |first1=Dody |title=Judge Bans N.Y. Westway: Environmentalists Declare Major Victory |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/08/08/judge-bans-ny-westway/d464a5cf-31aa-4602-94a8-d6481fcf2432/ |access-date=26 March 2024 |work=The Washington Post |date=August 7, 1985 |location=New York City}}{{cite news |title=New York: The End of the Road |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,959962,00.html |access-date=26 March 2024 |work=Time (magazine) |date=September 30, 1985}} In September 1985, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 287 to 132 to block the use of federal funds for the Westway.{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam |title=Cuomo is Urged to Give Up Westway Alternative |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/15/nyregion/cuomo-is-urged-to-give-up-westway-alternative.html |access-date=6 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=September 15, 1985 |page=48}}{{cite news |author1=Oreskes, Michael|title=House Votes by Big Margin To Bar Funds for Westway |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/12/nyregion/house-votes-by-big-margin-to-bar-funds-for-westway.html |access-date=6 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=September 12, 1985 |page=B8}} This bill had been proposed by New Jersey Congressman James J. Howard, chairmen of the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Finally, on September 20, 1985, Governor Mario Cuomo and Mayor Koch conceded defeat and abandoned the Westway project, choosing instead to trade-in the federal budget for smaller road and mass transit projects.{{cite news |author1=Oreskes, Michael|title=New York Leaders Give Up Westway and Seek Trade-In |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/20/nyregion/new-york-leaders-give-up-westway-and-seek-trade-in.html |access-date=6 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=September 20, 1985 |page=1}} A joint statement from the two officials called the continued pursuit of completing the Westway instead of taking the trade-in funding a "reckless gamble". The trade-in budget, estimated at $1.72 billion, would be the largest trade-in exchange in the history of the federal Interstate System.

When announcing the demise of the project, Governor Cuomo placed blame on U.S. Senators Bill Bradley and Frank Lautenberg and Congressman Frank J. Guarini, fellow Democratic politicians from New Jersey who opposed the project.{{cite news |author1=Associated Press |title=Westway Dies; Officials Angry |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%25205%2FOswego%2520NY%2520Palladium%2FOswego%2520NY%2520Palladium%2520Sept-Oct%25201985%2FOswego%2520NY%2520Palladium%2520Sept-Oct%25201985%2520-%25200259.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffdcd17cb2%26DocId%3D4801242%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520O%26HitCount%3D9%26hits%3D14%2B3a%2B72%2B95%2Bbb%2Bf7%2B1a2%2B21f%2B402%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%25205%2FOswego%2520NY%2520Palladium%2FOswego%2520NY%2520Palladium%2520Sept-Oct%25201985%2FOswego%2520NY%2520Palladium%2520Sept-Oct%25201985%2520-%25200259.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffdcd17cb2%26DocId%3D4801242%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520O%26HitCount%3D9%26hits%3D14%2B3a%2B72%2B95%2Bbb%2Bf7%2B1a2%2B21f%2B402%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=12 March 2025 |work=The Palladium-Times |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=September 20, 1985 |location=New York City |page=11}} The Westway project environmental studies predicted that when the Manhattan piers would be demolished for the landfill and highway, the striped bass would migrate to the piers on the New Jersey side of the river, which would interfere with proposed commercial developments on that shoreline. This led politicians from New Jersey to oppose the Westway project.{{rp|102, 232}} Mayor Koch further blamed New York City congressmen including Ted Weiss and Charles Rangel for opposing the project.

• The failure of the Westway project epitomized the difficulty cities like New York faced in completing megaprojects in the modern era, due to the high costs of these projects, and the inability to overcome public opposition.

In August 1990, the Federal Highway Administration called on the New York state and city governments to repay the $81 million spent by the federal government to buy land for the Westway project, with the state government seeking a waiver to forgo the repayment.{{cite news |last1=Sack |first1=Kevin |title=New York Told To Repay Westway Fund |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/11/nyregion/new-york-told-to-repay-westway-fund.html |access-date=6 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=August 11, 1990 |page=27}} As a result of this purchase, much of the property on the Hudson River waterfront between the Battery and 59th Street, including the former shipping piers, was government owned either by the state or the city.{{cite news |last1=Silber |first1=Kenneth |title=The Wasted Waterfront |url=https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-wasted-waterfront |access-date=6 May 2024 |work=City Journal |date=1996}}

File:Chelsea Waterside Pk td (2023-08-19) 097 - Central Promenade.jpg was opened in 2000 as part of Hudson River Park. The land was originally acquired for the Westway project in the 1980s.]]

• Following the removal of the elevated highway, an interim West Street boulevard was opened in 1983, varying from four-to-six lanes wide.{{rp|1-8}}
• Route 9A Project
• The project utilized much of the traded-in budget from the Westway project.{{rp|1-1, 1-11}}{{cite news |last1=Dunlap |first1=David W. |title=Officials Approve Plans to Rebuilt West Side Artery |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/02/nyregion/officials-approve-plans-to-rebuild-west-side-artery.html |access-date=15 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=August 2, 1994 |page=A1}}
• 1987 New Westway – Revised Westway (Route 9A, six-lane boulevard + HRP esplanade), costing $810 million, with the remainder of former budget going to mass transit.{{cite news |author1=Associated Press |title=New Westway plan gets OK |url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201987%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201987%252009384_2.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5a6bdc2c%26DocId%3D8255772%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D6f6%2B6ff%2B73a%2B73b%2B761%2B78e%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201987%2FNyack%2520NY%2520Journal%2520News%25201987%252009384_2.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5a6bdc2c%26DocId%3D8255772%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D6f6%2B6ff%2B73a%2B73b%2B761%2B78e%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=The Journal News |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=August 23, 1987}}{{cite news |last1=Uhlig |first1=Mark A. |title=Officials Agree On a New Road At Westway Site |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/23/nyregion/officials-agree-on-a-new-road-at-westway-site.html |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=August 23, 1987}}

• As part of the Route 9A project, Hudson River Park was constructed between West Street and the river, using design elements from the Westway State Park plans. For example, the Chelsea community-oriented park proposed during the Westway project was constructed as Chelsea Cove and Chelsea Waterside Park within Hudson River Park.
• Hudson River Park also incorporates many of the shipping piers that would have been destroyed by the Westway project.{{cite news |last1=Finley |first1=Louis |title=Hudson River Park Act: A look back at 25 years of wa­ter­front growth |url=https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/09/05/hudson-river-park-act--a-look-bak-at-25-years-of-waterfront-growth |access-date=9 March 2025 |work=NY1 |date=September 7, 2023}}{{cite news |last1=Brandon |first1=Elissaveta M. |title=How New York City Is Reclaiming Its Piers: A renaissance in pier developments is reconnecting people to the city’s waterfront |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-new-york-city-is-reclaiming-its-piers-180976121/ |access-date=9 March 2025 |work=Smithsonian (magazine) |date=October 26, 2020}}
• The creation of the park helped to catalyze new residential development on the West Side, as the Westway project was predicted to do so.{{rp|102}}

{{reflist}}

• [https://www.albany.edu/~mj770/530/WSHwy.pdf] Westway Wateredge
• [https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%25201955-1956%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%25201955-1956%252001118.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffc44291fd%26DocId%3D6438183%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D1f0%2B1f1%2B1f2%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%25201955-1956%2FRiverdale%2520NY%2520Press%25201955-1956%252001118.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffc44291fd%26DocId%3D6438183%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D1f0%2B1f1%2B1f2%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false] "Knickerbocker Expressway"
• [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/weekinreview/ideas-trends-thinking-big-in-new-york-seeking-a-grand-vision-of-public-works.html]

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=1 Smith Street=

• Leased the site of former A. J. Nutting clothing store, which closed on March 2, 1925.{{cite news |title=Nutting Building Under Negotiation In High-Mark Lease: Schrafft's Confectionery Firm to Pay Annual Net Rental of $80,000 |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/59884475/?terms=%22Schrafft%27s%22+%22fulton%22+%22smith%22 |access-date=16 July 2018 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |agency=Newspapers.com |date=March 2, 1925 |page=3}}{{cite news |title=SCHRAFFT'S LEASES NUTTING PROPERTY ON FULTON STREET |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%25205%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%25201925%2520Grayscale%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%25201925%2520Grayscale%2520-%25201220.pdf%23xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D246c9fa0%26DocId%3D6620803%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cindex%2520O%252dG%252dT%26HitCount%3D8%26hits%3De18%2Be19%2B137f%2B1380%2B1391%2B1392%2B1401%2B1402%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%25205%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%25201925%2520Grayscale%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%25201925%2520Grayscale%2520-%25201220.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D246c9fa0%26DocId%3D6620803%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cindex%2520O%252dG%252dT%26HitCount%3D8%26hits%3De18%2Be19%2B137f%2B1380%2B1391%2B1392%2B1401%2B1402%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false |access-date=16 July 2018 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |agency=Fultonhistory.com |date=March 5, 1925 |page=2}}

• In July 2004, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission included the building on a list of potential landmarks in Downtown Brooklyn.{{cite news |last1=Cardwell |first1=Diane |title=In a Ragtag Hub, Look Up, For There's Beauty Above |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/04/nyregion/in-a-ragtag-hub-look-up-for-there-s-beauty-above.html |access-date=16 July 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=July 4, 2004}}

• [http://www.usmodernist.org/PA/PP-1941-01.pdf Pencil Points, pg 23 (PDF 25)]

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=Parks and schools built with the New York City Subway=

Crosstown-Culver

• McCarren Park (sorta) - Nassau Avenue
• Banneker Playground = Bedford-Nostrand
• Sixteen Sycamores Playground - Hoyt Schermerhorn
• PS 58?, Transit Garden - Carroll Street
• St. Mary’s Playground - Smith Street Viaduct
• PS 154? - Culver Express bypass
• Greenwood Playground?, PS 130?, BPL Windsor ✓, [https://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/historical-signs/listings?id=12420 East Fourth Street Community Garden] ✓, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School?, PS 230? - Fort Hamilton Parkway
• [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/dome-playground/history Dome Playground] - Church Avenue Yard

• [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/minetta-playground/history Minetta Playground] ✓, West 4th Street Courts? - W 4th Street
• William F. Passannante Ballfield - W 4th Street curve onto Houston Street
• Sara Delano Roosevelt Park?, [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/first-park/highlights/12187 First Park] & community gardens, Peretz Square - 2nd Avenue
• Seward Park Campus ✓, Seward Park? (1930s renovation), [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/captain-jacob-joseph-playground/history Captain Jacob Joseph Playground] ✓ - East Broadway
• Rutgers Park (Two Bridges) - Rutgers Street Tunnel
• Bridge Park - York Street

• Brooklyn Tech? - Clinton-Washingotn Avs
• [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/2015-03-putnam-plaza-cb2.pdf Putnam Triangle Plaza]?, [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/crispus-attucks-playground/history Crispus Attucks Playground]? - Franklin Avenue
• [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/elizabeth-stroud-playground/history Elizabeth Stroud Playground] - Utica Av
• Callahan-Kelly Playground, ENY Bus Depot - Broadway-ENY
• [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/grace-playground/history Grace Playground] - Curve from Pennsylvania Av (Liberty Av Sta) and Pitkin AV (Van Siclen Av Sta)
• PS 159? - Euclid Avenue
• [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/robert-e-venable-park/history Robert E. Venable Park], Linden Plaza - Pitkin Yard
• [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/belmont-playground_bronx/history Belmont Playground]? - Grant Av / 76th St?

• [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/major-mark-park/history Major Mark Park]? - Between 179th and 169th
• Moore Homestead Playground - Elmhurst Avenue
• [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/frank-d-oconnor-playground/history Frank D. O'Connor Playground] ✓, Elmhurst Hospital? - Roosevelt Av Winfield Spur bellmouths
• Queens Library Broadway? - Curve from Broadway to Steinway Street

• Mosholu Library, Whalen Playground - Norwood-205th Street

• [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/rudd-playground/history Rudd Playground]? - Bushwick Avenue–Aberdeen Street (BMT Canarsie)
• Elton Playground and Linwood Playground - Livonia Yard