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Posted by ntrainride on Tue Feb 13 10:23:38 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by BrooklynBus on Sat Feb 10 22:54:20 2007. More Moses info:This is about a Columbia-sponsored exhibit: "Robert Moses: New Perspectives on the Master Builder" to be held in March. And here's a paper titled Robert Moses: Visionary or Villain? This is from a paper submitted by Thomas Kessner at City University of New York: "It was the thirties, tough depressed times, when most mayors were begging their governors for increases in their relief budgets, and here was La Guardia unfolding a program for a colossal new infrastructure paid for by the president. He assigned to Robert Moses the primary responsibility for building. In a single year, the hardbitten taskmaster, famed as New York’s master builder, poured 26 million federal dollars into the city parks, increasing their number by a third. He also completed the plans for a complex of four bridges linking together Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens, as well as two East River islands. Years before the federal government had shut down funding for this $50 million dollar Triborough project when it fell into Tammany’s hands, but Moses got it started again, adding new parkways, the East River Drive, and new recreation areas on Ward's and Randall's islands. By the end of La Guardia’s first administration the New Deal had funneled more than $1 billion into NYC." |
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