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About Robert Moses
In 1936, he bulldozed a working-class neighborhood in Queens to make way for the Triborough Bridge approach—no public hearing, no relocation plan, just a single-page memo stamped 'Approved.' That wasn’t an anomaly; it was method. Robert Moses didn’t draft zoning codes or write policy white papers—he built. Over four decades, he orchestrated the construction of 627 miles of parkways, 13 bridges, 416 miles of expressways, and 658 playgrounds—not as abstract infrastructure, but as instruments of control. He designed low overpasses on Long Island parkways to exclude buses, ensuring that only private automobiles—and thus only certain kinds of people—could reach Jones Beach. His power came not from elected office but from layered, self-renewing authorities: chairmanships, commissions, and toll revenues he controlled directly. When mayors objected, he bypassed them. When courts challenged him, he delayed, outlasted, or rewrote the rules. He reshaped New York’s geography so thoroughly that its contours still dictate who moves where, how fast, and at whose expense.
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