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Constructed mostly in the 1950s and ‘60s as a brainchild of Robert Moses, the highway displaced some 40,000 residents. Since then, diesel truck traffic on the roadway has been linked to higher air pollution and some of the highest asthma rates in the U.S. https://t.co/fG90y7y5Kk — PolitiTweet.org