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Posted by SMAZ on Thu Jul 26 03:02:18 2007, in response to Re: Brooklyn Dodgers (on topic), posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Jul 25 14:45:22 2007. Thanks! I made some typos but oh well. This topic is very interesting and relevant because young people and newcomers may have a difficult time understanding why thing are the way they are in NY without knowing how these things actually happened. They see the jammed subway lines and the choked roads and hear old tales enriched with revisionist history. Like all revisionism there is always a grain of truth and Moses was no saint, but unlike his original partner in crime, the likable and canonized Fiorello LaGuardia, Bob Moses' dismissive and arrogant attitude towards the general public deprived him from posterity's gratitude and appreciation for his mostly postive life's work and probably single-handedly created today's irrational NIMBYs. Perhaps that was his true genius all along. |
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