Sometimes issues can live or die with a decision from one influential person. That was recently highlighted by Gov. Kathy Hochul’s halt to congestion pricing, but it’s not just governors who have that ...
Robert Moses had built billions of dollars worth of bridges, parks, expressways and public housing highrises in and around New York City, and 50 years ago he wanted to construct what would be North ...
It took glaciers thousands of years to shape Long Island. In just a few decades, Robert Moses entirely altered its landscape with a vast network of roadways and state parks. In the early 1960s, a ...
Concrete Kingpin: Urban planner Robert Moses, pictured here, was immortalized in Robert Caro's The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974). Credit: AP Photo/Hans Von Nolde It’s ...
At a recent meeting in the Lower East Side about how to spend remaining federal funds to rebuild lower Manhattan, a group of protesters gathered outside, angry about how the money has been allocated ...
Fifty years after Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker” hit the shelves, Robert Moses’ vision for our city continues to profoundly influence our lives. He doubled our park space, added hundreds of ...
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An Urban Legend
Fifty years after the publication of The Power Broker, the legacy of urban planner Robert Moses is ripe for revisiting. At ...
The city’s millions of residents are crammed together, competing for space to live, play, work and rest. By Mihir Zaveri Tearing down a garage wall to renovate a park at the performing arts complex ...
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