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Looking north along the Major Deegan from the East 138th Street overpass.
This is the Deegan from the East 138th overpass. The dirtier air was right here.
Twelve fee gates by region. Bronx has zero, so any car spill had to show up on bridges, not gates.
Fraser's paper, Figure 1. About 22 percent lower inside the paid zone.
Barber Table A.8. PM2.5 8.70 to 7.56, minus 13 percent. Not Fraser's 22 percent.

Bronx bridges stay about flat while tunnels into the paid zone drop.

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Southern Boulevard
Southern Blvd
East 138th Street
East 138th
Boone Avenue
Boone Ave
East 141st Street
East 141st
Park Avenue in Crotona
Park Ave
East 132nd Street
East 132nd
Exterior Street
Exterior St
Jerome Avenue
Jerome Ave
Household income choropleth across NYC districts. Bronx runs darker, lower income.
Top corridor windows under equal weights, with East 138th highlighted.
Citywide heat map of corridor scores across four boroughs, with East 138th outlined.

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FAR Zoning Map NYC 2020. Max floor area ratio across the five boroughs, red low to blue high.
East 138th Street: nine blocks can take trees, one tall-narrow block needs walls.

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Three options: trees, rain gardens, and a Deegan cap over the road.
Sunken Major Deegan corridor with trucks and towers. The road sits below grade, so a lid decks upward over it.
E 135th Street beside the Deegan retaining wall, with The Motto building across the way.
Tall brick ramp wall along the local street next to the I-87 edge, white box truck for scale.
I-87 traffic looking toward The Motto building and the Willis Ave / Third Ave Bridge signs.

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Tunnels

Bridges

Fee gates

Air went down

Air went up

No change to call

Official monitor near our street

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Walls + spaced trees

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East 138th spine