{"id":328373,"date":"2026-08-24T13:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328373\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T13:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:54:10","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-mayor-mamdani-announces-fixes-repairs-coming-to-city-owned-section-of-the-brooklyn-queens-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328373\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Mayor Mamdani Announces Fixes Repairs Coming To City Owned Section Of The Brooklyn Queens Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York City Department of Transportation <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/mayors-office\/news\/2026\/08\/after-decades-of-delay--mayor-mamdani-moves-to-fix-the-city-owne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced plans<\/a> to repair a part of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>The city-owned section of the expressway sits between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street.<\/p>\n<p>According to the mayor&#8217;s office, the infrastructure is 20 years past its design life and is deteriorating in addition to carrying more weight than it was designed for. The 10-year rehabilitation will cost $4 billion, and is said to break ground in 2030. Repairs will extend the BQE Central&#8217;s life for another 40 years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York City Department of Transportation announced plans to repair a part of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-328373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}