‘TEAR DOWN  
 NYC construction big urges expressway’s  
 BY KEVIN DUGGAN & 
  BEN BRACHFELD 
 Government  leaders  must  
 use new federal infrastructure  
 dollars  to  demolish  the  
 Brooklyn-Queens Expressway  
 and rebuild it to meet 21st century  
 needs, according to an infl  
 uential construction industry  
 honcho. 
 “I have one mission in life  
 on infrastructure and that  
 is  to  work  with  communities  
 and create, I believe, the largest  
 infrastructure investment  
 in America,” said Carlo Scissura, 
  president of the New York  
 Building Congress at a morning  
 panel discussion Wednesday, 
  Nov. 10. “It’s called knocking  
 down, redesigning, and  
 rebuilding a Brooklyn-Queens  
 Expressway for people, for communities, 
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  and for all of us in our  
 city.” 
 The head of the building  
 trade advocacy group said  
 money from President Joe  
 Biden’s recently-passed $1.2  
 trillion  infrastructure  bill,  
 along with a new governor and  
 a soon-to-be new mayor will  
 make for the perfect time to redesign  
 the highway. 
 “I get out of the subway at  
 Fourth Avenue and I love Sunset  
 Park… But then what happens, 
  I walk down the block and  
 the worst monstrosity in the  
 United States, I have to look at,”  
 Scissura said. “It is the most ridiculous, 
  disgusting eyesore.  
 It’s dangerous, it’s polluted,  
 it’s rusted, let’s all chant, ‘tear  
 the BQE down, tear the BQE  
 down.’” 
 The  BQE  was  built  under  
 the reign of power broker  
 Robert Moses in the 1950s,  
 destroying  several  workingclass  
 neighborhoods  in  its  
 path,  including  along  Third  
 Avenue  in  Sunset  Park  near  
 where Scissura spoke at an infrastructure  
 breakfast hosted  
 The BQE in Brooklyn Heights, while Carlo Scissura, president of the New York Building Congress speaks at the  
 Chamber of Commerce’s infrastructure breakfast in Industry City.  Photos by Todd Maisel/Ben Brachfeld 
 by the Brooklyn Chamber of  
 Commerce in Industry City. 
 Scissura  is  no  stranger  to  
 the  years-long  discussions  
 about what to do with the BQE,  
 having chaired a so-called expert  
 panel convened by Mayor  
 Bill de Blasio to study fi xes for  
 the roadway’s decaying triplecantilever  
 section  wrapping  
 around Brooklyn Heights after  
 locals rebelled against the  
 city’s proposal to run a temporary  
 six-lane  highway  on  the  
 beloved local promenade dur- 
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