The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is an aging, deteriorating beast, and there's currently a proposal in the City Council to tear it down completely and replace it with an underground tunnel. Thus a massive amount of land between the city's two biggest boroughs would be transformed and made available to the public.
Many other cities are doing this -- replacing their old highways with tunnels and making their surfaces more pedestrian and people friendly.
Obviously the cost and difficulty of this would be immense but, if it could be pulled off, would be an amazing and wonderful thing for roughly 6 millions New Yorkers.
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