Prospect Trace

PROSPECT TRACE questions the paradigm “highest and best use” with a proposal to create a new mixed-use neighborhood in the right-of-way of the Prospect Expressway, a spur of the BQE that was originally intended to continue to Coney Island. By sacrificing the minutes saved by the motorists headed East on to Vaux and Olmsted’s historic Ocean Parkway, the City would create as many as a thousand units of housing, new affordable apartments with excellent transportation and access to two of the pre-eminent green spaces in Brooklyn.