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The enclosure once served as the cemetery for the St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church in a Queens County haven for free Black people called Newtown. As many as 290 New Yorkers’ bodies now lie beneath the impounded cars.
A group of community activists have compiled biographies of Newtown’s residents in what they say is “a direct response to the physical and historical erasure of one of New York City’s most significant early free Black settlements.” They say the labor of many of those interred at the site “built western Queens.”
City inspectors declared the towing lot illegal last spring and have issued code violations and thousands of dollars in fines to the company that owns it. Some cars were deposited there as part of the NYPD’s efforts to remove abandoned vehicles from city streets.
After The City Reporter began asking city agencies about the space, a spokesperson for the Buildings Department said the owner had agreed to evict the operator running the lot, shut it down and remove all the vehicles and tires by the end of November. “We will be closely monitoring the site, including the property owner’s progress in removing the vehicles,” spokesperson Andrew Rudansky said.
A decaying three-tiered stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that daily carries more than double the number of vehicles for which it was originally designed will be rehabilitated under a Mamdani administration plan set to be unveiled Monday.
The proposed overhaul of the 1.5-mile city-owned section of the BQE from Atlantic Avenue to Sands Street would preserve access to portions of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and Brooklyn Bridge Park. A temporary two-level highway would be built below the promenade to keep traffic off local streets.
“The BQE central portion that’s owned by the city is something that’s kind of challenged multiple administrations to find a solution,” city Transportation Commissioner Mike Flynn said. “We’re going on two decades now of various planning, visioning efforts and analysis, and our administration recognizes this is one of the most urgent infrastructure challenges we’re facing.”
Built in the 1940s, the triple-cantilevered structure was designed to last 50 years and carry 50,000 vehicles a day. It now carries about 130,000 daily. While city officials insist it is safe, they acknowledged time is running out for interim repairs. The bulk of the 16-mile highway belongs to the state.
Relocating utilities is expected to start in the first half of 2029, with traffic moving to the temporary bypasses by 2032. Traffic is projected to return to the rehabbed section by the second half of 2040.
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