Eyeballing it with Google areal view (I appreciate what it looks like today may not be what it looked like at the time), I think you'd have to demolish several entire streets of houses and/or some bridges to do that.

And these are London streets, not American ones, so it might still not fit: https://maps.app.goo.gl/eerQMHDv2gXLdu5D7?g_st=ic