Editing SoHo, Manhattan (section)

===Lower Manhattan Expressway===
In the 1960s, the SoHo area was to have been the location of two enormous elevated [[highway]]s that comprised the two branches of the [[Lower Manhattan Expressway]], a [[Robert Moses]] project that was intended to create an [[automobile]] and [[truck]] through-route connecting the [[Manhattan Bridge]] and [[Williamsburg Bridge]] on the east with the [[Holland Tunnel]] on the west.<ref name=enc-nyc /><ref name="nycroads">{{cite web |url=http://www.nycroads.com/roads/lower-manhattan/ |title=Lower Manhattan Expressway (I-78 and I-478, unbuilt) |first=Steve |last=Anderson |work=NYCRoads |access-date=April 29, 2013}}</ref>

The young [[historic preservation]] movement and [[architectural]] critics, stung by the destruction of the original [[Pennsylvania Station (1910–1963)|Pennsylvania Station]] in 1963 and the threat to other historic structures, challenged the plans because of the threatened loss of a huge quantity of 19th-century cast-iron buildings.<ref name="NYTimes-RememberingPioneer-2008">{{Cite news|url=https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/remembering-a-pioneer-of-the-preservation-movement/|title=Remembering a Pioneer of the Preservation Movement|last=Dunlap|first=David W.|author-link=David W. Dunlap|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 29, 2008|access-date=October 18, 2017}}</ref>
[[File:Cast-Iron_451-Broome-Street_from_Greene_Street.jpg|thumb|[[Cast-iron architecture]] on Broome Street]]
When [[John V. Lindsay]] became [[Mayors of New York City|mayor of New York City]] in 1966, his initial reaction was to try to push the expressways through, dubbing the project the Lower Manhattan Expressway, depressing some of the proposed highway in residential areas and stressing the importance of the artery to the city. Nevertheless, through the efforts of [[Jane Jacobs]], Tony D'Apolito, [[Margot Gayle]], and other local, civic, and cultural leaders, as well as SoHo artist residents themselves, the project was derailed.<ref name="NYTimes-RememberingPioneer-2008"/>