Mamdani administration pitches multi-billion-dollar plan to fix BQE’s crumbling cantilever

Could Zohran Mamdani be the mayor who finally manages to fix the beleaguered Brooklyn-Queens Expressway's (BQE) triple cantilever on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront?Mamdani's Department of Transportation (DOT) unveiled on Monday a $3.5 to $4 billion plan to rehabilitate the part of the Robert Moses-era highway that runs through Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, and Downtown Brooklyn between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street — known as BQE Central. That section of the highway contains the triple cant