“It was an uneven contest, yesterday. At a Hudson River pier were the big names of New York Society to say Westway's day had come. “I am pleased I lived to see this day,” said Mayor Edward I. Koch. But several blocks away, opponents differed. “The case is not over,” said Gene Russianoff with the Straphangers Campaign. “Westway will be fought in the courts and the Congress.”

"WESTWAY’S DAY AT LAST”
(Newsday, March 5, 1985, six months before Westway was abandoned.)

 

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