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Re: Since when are buses allowed on the Parkways? |
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Posted by WillD on Fri Jul 18 18:05:00 2008, in response to Re: Since when are buses allowed on the Parkways?, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Fri Jul 18 17:19:01 2008. So the poor people aren't denied access to the beaches, they just have to drive through miles and miles of side streets to reach the short parkways that lead to those beaches. And if the parkways were designed for leisure automobile traffic only then it would follow that if buses carrying poor people were prohibited from them then the poor people were not deserving of such leisure.Incidentally, he did take measures to specifically segregate the beaches on the basis of race. These are recounted on page 318 and 319, toward the end of the 17th chapter. Based on interviews with Sid Shapiro, Paul Kerns (LaGuardia's law secretary), and Paul Windels (LaGuardia Corporation Council) Caro recounts a process by which buses entering Jones Beach and other parks had to recieve a permit. Buses chartered by African American groups often found it difficult to recieve a permit in the first place, and when they did it was rarely to Jones Beach, but rather to one of the more distant, unimproved beaches where they'd be parked on the edge of the parking lot. Caro's assertion that Moses considered African Americans "Dirty" comes directly from an interview with Sid Shapiro. Of course his actions on Long Island taken with the fact that he built nearly no parks in black neighborhoods in New York despite the lower land cost pretty well put this revisionist history to rest. |
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