If one of those fails, the FDR Drive or the West Side Highway could end up underwater.

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How about 142nd Street and the FDR Drive in East Harlem, a largely undeveloped area around the PAL Tennis Center?

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"New York is a democratic city, " he said meaning, I suppose, as did Ms. Neumark, that all of us at one time or another, and often daily, have experienced the profound impotence of sitting in stalled traffic in Midtown, on the FDR Drive or on one of our celebrated bridges or tunnels.

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