The Green New Deal is a framework for tackling our climate crisis and building a better world. And Loving The Bronx, in partnership with local activists in the South Bronx, has been imagining solutions for decades of environmental health issues and community displacement in The Bronx through an initiative to Cap the Cross-Bronx Expressway.

With the support of Alexandria, local elected officials, and funding from the federal infrastructure bill, organizers are collaborating to reconnect communities, create new green space, and reverse the effects of environmental racism in the borough. We spoke to the leaders of this grassroots, multi-agency effort about the evolution of the project and what capping the highway could mean for the residents who live along the Cross-Bronx Expressway.