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Posted by BrooklynBus on Sun Feb 11 18:00:39 2007, in response to Re: Set Your VCR, posted by Red Line to Glenmont on Sun Feb 11 13:41:59 2007. He was different in that he had more power than any planner anywhere, holding at one point eleven government jobs simultaneously."Running the Gowanus Expressway where the Third Avenue (Brooklyn) El was and two blocks from a grimy waterfront was a smart and somewhat obvious idea." No it wasn't. If you read the Power Broker you would learn that 3rd Avenue was a lively and vibrant neighborhood full of mom and pop shops an plenty of street life, as Jane Jacobs would put it. Moses totally destroyed 3rd Avenue. Today it is all industrial with no street life at all. You could say that there was no alternative, but there was. The neighborhood begged him to build it along Second Avenue instead of Third which would not have destroyed any of the stores and would have relocated far fewer people. But as usual, Moses wouldn't listen to reason because he didn't have to. It's not a question of building the Gowanus or not but where to built it. The same is true of the Cross Bronx. A slightly different alignment would have dislocated 3,000 fewer families and not make the route more circuitous, but Moses didn't want to dislocate a friend of his. He was very different. |
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