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Re: NY Daily News: Robert Moses’ Name Should Be Removed from Public Works |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Sep 16 13:17:55 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 12:06:24 2019. No they aren't because he destroyed countless small businesses to build them.First, how could it possibly be countless? You know that there are maps from before the CBE was built so that you can literally count the businesses. But semantics and hyperbole aside, the Cross-Bronx runs mostly mid-block, so the impact on businesses would have been minor. In fact, The Power Broker goes into detail as to the number of residences destroyed (so obviously not "countless"), but makes scarce mention of businesses, probably due to the number being unimpressive. And there are no superblocks near the CBE in East Tremont. So no additional buildings were destroyed that were not in the way of the highway and its ramps, except elsewhere in the Bronx where the CBE destruction had no effect. On a tiny scale, look at downtown Hicksville. State DOT decided in the early 1960's to widen all the roads. So half the downtown business on one side of the street were bulldozed. They have never recover from that. They didn't try that shit in Huntington or Old Northport. Moses had nothing to do with that. That kind of thing was done all over the country. Meanwhile, there are plenty of downtowns that suffered no demolition but where nevertheless decimated by shopping malls. Your citing of Hicksville is a weird example as it looks to me that there are stores on both sides of the street and not an unusual number of vacancies. |
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