As an attempt to make sense of my findings and to answer why Rosario Dawson seems to be denied a mixed-race subjectivity by mainstream U.S. audiences, I turn to the work of Angharad N. Valdivia (2004).
The Long Island Rail Road system is made up of eleven passenger branches. Three main trunk lines, the Main Line, Montauk Branch, and Atlantic Branch, spin off eight smaller branches.
This text is part of Parksâ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park. The Long Island Expressway was built with the idea of easing traffic flow throughout the borough of Queens, and connecting New York City to Nassau County and the rest of Long Island more effectively. The Expressway was the project of Robert Moses (1888-1981), head of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority.