The Power Broker, Robert Caro’s book about New York City’s master ... s place among the greatest cities in the history of the world. The debate over Moses’s legacy continues. Caro’s defenders point to ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Robert ... Moses died in 1981, after redrawing New York ...

Power broker Robert Moses is seen as a villain now, but he transformed the urban landscape, sometimes for good. The play "Straight Line Crazy" starring Ralph Fiennes explores his legacy.

Caro’s book on Robert Moses, a city planner who reshaped New ... grappling with its legacy and more. This year, “The Power Broker” is being celebrated with an installation at the New-York ...

Fifty years after Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker ... $8 million for engineering and planning to bring these projects to life. Moses’ legacy includes huge amounts of public space, but ...

By Jesse Green I doubt I’d have enjoyed meeting the real Robert Moses, New York’s paver of ... needling each other among the maps and models of Bob Crowley’s set, the unlikely spin of ...

Robert Caro’s 1974 ... he accounts for its continuing legacy. “People are interested in power,” Caro says. “This is a particular kind of power. Robert Moses’ power was unchecked power.

By Rachel Sherman “Straight Line Crazy,” the play by David Hare about the contentious urban planner Robert Moses ... the play about Moses’s legacy of power and divisive creations of highways ...

I sat in a park in the borough’s leafy eastern reaches, within a short drive of a Robert Moses-constructed ... As documented in a study of Mr. Moses’ legacy edited by the historians Kenneth ...

Caro’s seminal 1974 biography of Robert Moses, the parks commissioner who transformed the city through public works projects. Mr. Moses oversaw an expansion of Riverside Park in the 1930s.

Robert Moses redesigned New York City with bruising efficiency. He built 416 miles of parkways, 13 bridges, 658 playgrounds in the New York metro area, changing the way all American cities ...