The Nation - News from Sept. 20, 1985
New York state and city officials gave up a 10-year fight and abandoned Manhattan’s proposed $2-billion Westway highway and real estate development project. Gov. Mario M. Cuomo and Mayor Edward I. Koch said they will seek to use the project’s federal funding for mass transit and a smaller substitute road, as opponents had urged since Westway was proposed in 1974.
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