But one of those Moses roads that actually never got fully built out provides a view of the Staten Island Expressway (another Moses project) that few borough residents have likely ever seen. You’ll ...

To that end, three express highways should traverse the densest parts of New ... became identified with them: Robert Moses. In their acknowledgments, the influential Regional Planners thank the Long ...

Robert Moses, the “master builder,” constructed 627 miles of highways in and around New York City during a roughly 40-year period. Many of his projects divided close-knit neighborhoods, demolished ...

Instead, with highways but few subways, the outer boroughs’ second growth spurt resulted in small homes filling outlying areas. “I wish that Robert Moses had been in charge of the subways instead of ...

Fifty years after Robert Caro’s “The Power ... Combined, the highways see up to 320,000 vehicles per day, thousands more than Moses anticipated. Air and noise pollution remain.

Robert Moses in his office in 1978 ... He usually got what he wanted, but not always, as when he sought to ram a highway through Washington Square in Greenwich Village and three more that would ...

because every time I went outside I would see something that reminded me of Robert Moses,” she said. In addition to highways and bridges, Moses was responsible for hundreds of playgrounds ...

Robert Caro at the Strand Bookstore ... has also brought to the fore the environmental dangers Moses left us in the form of massive highway systems built for polluting, gas-guzzling passenger ...

I grew up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, a neighborhood ribboned by two Moses highways and cleaved by what ... that Mr. Caro did not get the story of Robert Moses completely right. Today, in the popular ...