ABSTRACT
In the 1930s, Robert Moses, chairman of the Metropolitan Council on Parks, envisioned a new highway network for the five boroughs of New York City comprising a series of limited-access arterial routes that he named the Belt Parkway. Moses’s vision was that a parkway that circumscribed the borders of Brooklyn and Queens would promote regional mobility. Borough residents would travel only a short distance on local city streets to this new parkway system that would provide direct connectivity to other boroughs.
