Last month, Zohran Mamdani swept the election with an ambitious, people-centered vision: safe streets, world-class public transit, and governance that centers everyday New Yorkers. For Bronx families who have spent their lives fighting to reimagine the Cross Bronx Expressway, this vision resonates deeply.

Already, 62% of Bronxites live car-free — the highest rate in the city — but we’re still battling state plans to expand that polluting strip of highway Robert Moses first rammed through more than 70 years ago. Come January, the Mamdani administration can partner on the state’s once-in-a-generation Cross Bronx repair project to transform the surrounding corridor, and reunite disconnected Bronx neighborhoods, for good. 

Here’s how.

Right before Mamdani’s historic election, the Bronx made history of its own and stopped the state Department of Transportation’s plan to build a new mile-long polluting roadway along the Cross Bronx. Decades after Moses’ racist urban planning policies, Bronx families continue to suffer from chronic illness, including some of the highest asthma rates........

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