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Re: NY Daily News: Robert Moses’ Name Should Be Removed from Public Works |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Sep 18 09:31:53 2019, in response to Re: NY Daily News: Robert Moses’ Name Should Be Removed from Public Works, posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Sep 16 08:41:55 2019. I disagree. He did not do more harm than good. Just imagine NY without any highways. It would be impossible to get around. Brooklyn only has the Bet Parkway which continues onto the BQE. It takes just as long to get from southern Brooklyn to Park Slope as it does to get to Nassau County, about 45 minutes. Mass transit even takes longer.And the argument that if his highways were not built mass transit would have been built in its place cannot be proven. You still had the oil lobby fighting for highways. Moses took just as much money from hospitals and schools as he did from transit to build his highways, parks and housing. We all know about the harm he did, but it it not outweigh all the good he did like building 200 playgrounds in one year. I don't believe his building of high rises was racist. He was just misguided thinking he was removing slums. He was never well liked in NYC which is why nothing was named for him inside the city. By right the Triborough Bridge should have been named after him because he was the one who got it built after it was stalled for 14 years. But it wasn't because he was so hated. RFK had nothing to do with the bridge, and as great as a man as he was, it should have remained the Triborough. Should we remove Jefferson's name from everything because he was a slave owner? |
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