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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Sep 16 10:55:26 2019, in response to Re: NY Daily News: Robert Moses’ Name Should Be Removed from Public Works, posted by Joe V on Mon Sep 16 10:22:28 2019. You call Super Blocks and other Projects "housing" ? They were displacements of what he destroyed.At the time the projects were stated of the art, and they displaced slums with shared bathrooms and no hot water. At least back then they built housing for the working class and not just the rich. Private developments for the middle and upper classes were also built in the Le Corbusier style back then. Most of his highways are safety disasters and also ban buses. Some were were financed by stillborn IND System-2 and System 3. They were built in the 20s and 30s when that was state of the art. New York already had a major network of highways when other cities had nothing. The postwar highways, like the Clearview Expressway and the Staten Island Expressway were built to modern standards and many highways which would have conformed to modern standards were unbuilt. Most of what else was built was inevitable. This sort of inevitability argument can be used to dismiss the achievements of any historical figure. The beaches were built by oceanic long shore drift, not Robert Moses. All he did was build parking lots. Bullshit. Jones Beach is just as artificial as Central Park (although you might not be aware that that's artificial too). Maybe you should read about how it was built. He could have destroyed all 2 dozen communities along Fire Island No, they would have been changed to communities with car access. Less unique, so I'll give you that. along with Greenwich Village, and East Village had he not been stopped. The same way the FDR Drive destroyed the east side? Also, you're thinking of what's now called SoHo. There were no highways planned through the Village. I, for one, am convinced that those neighborhoods suffer worse for all of the interstate truck traffic that clogs the streets. |
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