AOC urges Hochul to scrap plan that would widen Cross Bronx Expressway

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this week lent her sizable megaphone to the fight against a New York State Department of Transportation plan that would widen the Cross Bronx Expressway.

AOC — a Democrat who represents swaths of the east Bronx and western Queens — sent a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday, urging the state’s top executive not to pursue any plan that involves expanding the highway.