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Posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Feb 14 17:06:07 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by Olog-hai on Wed Feb 14 16:12:50 2007. My guess is that you didn't read the Power Broker, because if you had, you wouldn't ask for a list of his contributions."List them" Other than Central Park and a few others, New York had virtually no parks to speak of. We were so park hungry that in the 1800s people routinely picnicked in cemeteries or alongside rural roads. He built several hundred within the City in a few short years. Most of the roads he built were necessary and NY would not be nearly as successful without them. Yes, they could have taken different routes with much less displacement of people, but that is another story. His contributions through out the entire state including Long Island are too numerous to mention. Like Caro, I'm not a fan of the housing he built but some also consider the vast amount of housing he built also to be a contribution. "Like" Just one example, I already mentioned that the LIE probably would have been a surface boulevard in the City limits if Moses didn't have the vision to make it limited access. Just look at the results where Moses did not build. It takes forever to get across Brooklyn because there is no Cross Brooklyn Expressway. Without him, there probably would never have been a Belt Parkway and it would take two hours today to travel from Greenpoint to Coney Island today using local streets without it. With it, it still takes an hour and a half if you use local streets and the distance is only 10 miles. "Proof of the former" I think Chris already made a powerful case of this numerous times in this discussion. There is no reason to repeat them again. |
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