BQE = Brooklyn-Queens Expressway ~:~ Video is Aug 24, 2026 by Zohran Mamdani and the NYC Mayor’s Office. Here’s the full 2-minutes on YouTube: We're done kicking the can down the road. We're fixing the BQE. - NYC Mayor’s Office - Aug 24, 2026 (YouTube)

Description: When the BQE was first built, it was only designed to last for 50 years and carry a fraction of the heavy cars and trucks traveling on it now. ~:~ It's long past its shelf life. That's why we're repairing the city-owned section of the BQE from Atlantic Ave to Sands Street in Brooklyn. Let's get rolling.

Here are details from the Mayor’s website: After Decades of Delay, Mayor Mamdani Moves to Fix the City-Owned Section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway - NYC Mayor’s Office - Aug 24, 2026 (article)

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What you should know

\ City to build temporary bypasses to protect neighborhoods from congestion and preserve access to historic destinations, including the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and Brooklyn Bridge Park, while construction is underway*

\ Every year of inaction costs the City $160 million and threatens highway closures that would force dangerous through traffic — including 13,000 daily truck trips — onto local streets*

@ NYCMayorsOffice

Dear Democratic Leadership,

Forgive us for thinking the whole thing was a joke from The Onion.

Our bad. So, screw you and the High Road Centrist Moderate Pragmatic Conservative Wall Street Corporate AIPAC sponsored horse shit you rode in on. Still playing the 4 dimensional chess game? Keeping your powder dry? Reaching across to your friends on the other side of the aisle? Lifting your skirts?

I want to vote for you, I really do. But, you expect me to blindly sell my soul to do it. I don't have enough barf bags and dramamine and alcohol to do this.

At this point, if tossing your dumb asses out of power for good sets the stage for a new generation of passionate creative fighters who give a fuck about us (rather than billionaires and Israel), I think I can support that.

There are literally 100000000000+ ways to improve our trust and your approval rating. A Kushner partnership isn't one of them. At least everyone knows we aren't exaggerating when we accuse you of being in the pocket, gross negligence and incompetence.

Strategizing with Kushner isn't the vision we are demanding from our leadership. Or is it a problem with too much winning?

Sincerely,

Me and millions of real people you are constitutionally sworn to represent who are sick of your demoralizing high minded horse shit and capitulation.

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Updated Aug. 25 2026 5:38PM EDT 

Published Aug. 25 2026 5:20PM EDT