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Posted by MATHA531 on Mon Jul 23 00:39:16 2007, in response to Re: Brooklyn Dodgers (on topic), posted by SMAZ on Mon Jul 23 00:16:24 2007. I am sure I can find lots of people in the Bronx whose property was taken from them to build the Cross Bronx Expressway when alternate routes which would not have destroyed their neighborhold existed.And that was indeed Moses' big problem. Once he decided something, no amount of logic or anything could change his mind. It was going to be his way period end of discussion. He finally met his match when for once in his life Robert Wagner stood up to him regarding the Cross Manhattan Expressway which would have cut across Greenwich Village which was the beginning of the end. We also have Moses to thank for the low overpasses on the Southern and Northern State Parkways put there deliberately to keep low income people from taking buses out to his precious beaches at Jones Beach (and do remember many of these people when this construction occurred were not necessarily people of color). Yes, Moses had quite a bit to answer for, some of it good but much of it bad when he finally met his maker; however the removal of the Brooklyn baseball franchise was most assuredly not one of them. |
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