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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 27 20:32:06 2007, in response to Re: Brooklyn Dodgers (on topic), posted by Michael549 on Fri Jul 27 13:06:58 2007. That convinces me that he appears to have been a racist when it came to the pools, but it doesn't convince me about the playgrounds.The areas with a light sprinkling of dots were the outlying areas not needing parks (understandable) and the heavily congested areas with tenements. What Caro doesn't mention is the availability of land in those congested areas. Maybe building in those areas would first require demolition, while the other parks were built on vacant land, making it not possible to build more parks in congested areas without incurring huge expenses. Moses was practical also. If he could build five parks elsewhere for the same cost as building one park in a congested area, he would choose the former. Also, the citation only talks about parks built in the 1930s. He built another 300 during the next 30 years. You would have to look at the complete record to come to a definite conclusion either way. |
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