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Posted by streetcarman1 on Tue Jul 24 16:31:15 2007, in response to Re: Brooklyn Dodgers (on topic), posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jul 24 11:13:48 2007. Yes, that is true in the case of the Northern State.....but some years later, Robert Moses DID get the Long Island Expressway throughHere is what Moses "DID": .....this is a piece taken from NYCROADS.COM - Just east of the newly opened section in western Nassau County, Moses made a deal with Charles E. Wilson, former president of General Motors and defense secretary under President Dwight Eisenhower. Under the deal, which was brokered between the NYSDPW and the Federal government, Wilson, who was deep in debt, sold his parcels of land in Old Westbury to the NYSDPW. Moses could build the Long Island Expressway through Old Westbury - the same area that the Northern State Parkway avoided in the "Objector's Bend" deal a quarter century earlier - but could not construct interchanges for a four-mile stretch. So as you all can see, Moses didn't have to work too hard to get what he needed. Nor did he face a band of "fat-cats" to get the LIE through Old Westbury. |
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