One of a few failed urban highways conceived by Robert Moses, the 1941 plans for a mid-Manhattan expressway would have “cut out a swath of 30th Street on its route eastward, past the old Pennsylvania Station and the Empire State Building.” | Viewing NYC

These Never-Built Designs Would Have Drastically Changed New York City

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One of a few failed urban highways conceived by Robert Moses, the 1941 plans for a mid-Manhattan expressway would have “cut out a swath of 30th Street on its route eastward, past the old Pennsylvania Station and the Empire State Building.”