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Re: Robert Moses, Brooklyn, The Bronx, etc. |
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Posted by Wallyhorse on Wed Jul 25 07:33:18 2007, in response to Re: Brooklyn Dodgers (on topic), posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jul 24 23:39:26 2007. Absolutely:Moses may not have been a saint, but he was not responsible for everything that went wrong with New York in the 1950's,'60s and '70s even if he is indirectly responsible for SOME of it. What was going on then was more of a national trend, and Moses did get a lot of things done that were absolutely needed at the time. His failure to adjust and think ahead to what might happen in the '60s and '70s, however, is another matter entirely. If you check out the New York Daily News special series "The Bronx Is Burning" (at: http://www.nydailynews.com/features/bronxisburning/index.html) that they are doing in conjunction with the ESPN series "The Bronx Is Burning" (based on the 1977 Yankees), you can see for yourself what happened in the '60s and '70s and what led to everything that happened then, a lot of which I got to see firsthand, especially with the subways when I rode then regularly in the early-to-mid '80s. You can see how things rapidly deteriorated in Bushwick, Brooklyn in particular. |
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