![]() ![]() Their payoff is also back-loaded, assuming the blow does connect. RELATED: Elden Ring: The Biggest Fixes The Game Needsįor one, they're the slowest weapons in Elden Ring. Wielding these colossal weapons, however, is no simple or easy feat. Elden Ringis no exception and with its towering enemies and oversized uppity demigods, some of these ultra weapons are almost necessary to keep these Elden gods' egos in check. How do you think the Expressway would have changed the face of Brooklyn?Īrt: New York City Department of Traffic, Information:, Dwell.Colossal weapons or ultra-great weapons have always been a staple of Souls games. Brooklyn legislator Stanley Steingut said the expressway would “dislocate the whole face of Brooklyn.” Although the highway made it onto Federal maps as late as 1968, it was defeated in the heavily Democratic State Assembly and withdrawn by Mayor John Lindsay in May 1969 as he faced a tough election in November. While Mayor Lindsay and the city government pushed for the idea, many in Brooklyn were opposed. For better or worse, we wouldn’t live in the same neighborhood that we do today. It would carry cars, trains, businesses and schools as it cut through. Think of a Gowanus Expressway-sized beast only bigger and full of more stuff. ![]() ![]() It’s impossible to predict how such a gargantuan ultra-urban structure would have done to the middle of Brooklyn but it’s difficult to imagine the differences not being drastic. “At the time, even the steadfastly sensible critic Ada Louise Huxtable supported the plan: ‘It almost seems to be in the cards, logically and inevitably…You can’t outlaw the 20th century.'” Linear Cities were “mid-century urban idealism,” according to Jacobs. The “educational park,” through a public-private partnership, could also attract new businesses.īy 1967, Mayor John Lindsay pushed to build the 5.5 mile dense “ Linear City” atop the Cross Brooklyn Expressway. Also, an “educational park” – with multiple school facilities and anchored by Brooklyn College-CUNY (pictured at the top of the post)- would be built to accommodate 20,000 students in grades K-12, as provide for adult education. Above the expressway and its environs, at least 6,000 new housing units would be constructed. Below the expressway, the LIRR Bay Ridge branch could be supplemented by passenger service. Although multiple uses for transportation rights-of-way were not a new concept, Linear City was seen as a vehicle to revitalize a community. In this vision, highways would minimally disrupt homes, shops, services and “an otherwise pristine natural landscape.” If the city government of the 1960s had its way, the Cross Brooklyn Expressway would have been the first step in building a linear city, “a structure that might be a mile wide and 20 miles long containing every possible urban function,” wrote Karrie Jacobs. Those are the modest versions of the plan. The plan was estimated to cost $266 million in 1966, coming out to a little over $1.5 billion dollars today’s money. Well, one said, “there would have been upsides and downsides, that’s for sure.” residents wondered out loud about the plan. What a strange twist that would have been, a couple of pow-wowed East 12 St. Several neighbors recall a facet of the plan that would have turned the dead-end at East 12th Street into an exit ramp instead of a residential street. The highway would have been depressed below street level (in the same way the Bay Ridge Line is today) until Glenwood Road when it would have risen up above the street and even above the raised-railroad track as it headed east. The 12-mile, eight-lane CBE expressway would exist “to close the missing southern link in the city’s outer circumferential loop around Manhattan,” argued the Planning Commission in 1965. One version of the expressway was in planning as early as 1929 but was repeatedly pushed back as other Kings County projects such as the Bushwick Expressway (another phantom road) took priority. The train line would have boasted passenger service in various versions of the highway’s plan, not all that different from what was proposed in 2008 by the MTA. In this alternate timeline, Southern Victorian Flatbush might have been the site of the Cross Brooklyn Expressway, a highway part of an enormous plan designed to change the realities of 20th century cities in America and around the world.Īccording to one 1941 “master plan” from the New York City Planning Commission, the large highway would have run over the Bay Ridge Division of the LIRR, currently the cut-out tracks that run under Coney Island Avenue south of Avenue H. Picture an alternate dimension in which the ubiquitous Robert Moses built even more skyscraping highways around New York City. ![]()
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