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Posted by Mitch45 on Tue Jun 19 16:09:14 2012, in response to Re: City Hall Tour, posted by Joe Saitta on Tue Jun 19 15:17:03 2012. Moses was completely forced from power by the formation of the MTA in 1968. According to "The Power Broker", Moses, who was already 80 years old by this time, initially refused to allow the TBTA to merge with the MTA and was prepared to sue the MTA on behalf of the TBTA bondholders (one of his favorite ploys to ensure that no one could interfere with his power). Nelson Rockefeller and William Ronan (first MTA chairman) shmoozed him over and led him to believe that Moses would have a big role in the MTA, so he threw his weight behind it. After the MTA was formed, Moses was given a desultory "consulting" position with the MTA, and he was ignored from then on.Moses had already given up much of his power in the early '60s, when he resigned from the position of Parks Commissioner and then shed a few more city and state jobs when he became the director of the 1964-65 World's Fair. If you never read The Power Broker, read it. Its an amazing book. |
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