Throughout the readings I kept finding myself coming back to the fact that Robert Moses seems to have done so much for the city, and yet I have never heard of him. When I started reading about the Washington Square Park ordeal though, I realized that I actually have heard […]
Daily Archives: February 4, 2019
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When compiling the many facets of the “Master Builder” as illustrated by the words of Ballon and Jackson, I was scouring numerous platforms to find a piece of media which artfully expressed Robert Moses as the NY figurehead he is. A piece which captures his ability to construct what he […]
Among the many projects Robert Moses brought to completion, the Cross Bronx Expressway was one with many negative repercussions. This freeway, blamed for cutting the Bronx in half and causing the migration of thousands of residents at the time it was built, is now considered the “most congested urban roadway […]
While Mayor Bill de Blasio recently went on the late night television show “Real Time with Bill Maher” to proclaim himself an indisputable progressive, some in his city have found themselves disagreeing. Recently, a small Brooklyn-based newspaper called The Brooklyn Daily Eagle wrote an article about a protest that occurred as a […]
Robert Moses is a man that is known to have greatly impacted the physical features of the New York City we know today. The process of city building has changed drastically since his time, and therefore his influence on the building of NYC is unmatched. His contributions to the city […]
Robert Moses has come to be known as a figure that single-handedly made New York City what it is today-physically speaking at least. During his time in power, his contributions were astounding not only in the number of public works completed, but also in the speed of their execution, in […]
As I pored over the readings this weekend, I couldn’t help but think of a video I had watched about redlining by the informative or irritating (depending on how you see the man) Adam Conover on the TV show Adam Ruins Everything. A video that I believe I had to […]
For the past six months residents of Brooklyn Heights have expressed concern over the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) proposal to turn the community’s beloved Promenade into a six lane highway in an effort to repair the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. Members of the neighborhood have responded by banding together to protest […]
Robert Moses had an extraordinary impact on New York City. From the Triborough, Whitestone, and Verrazano bridges, to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Prospect and Henry Hudson Parkways, Jones Beach, Central Park Zoo, playgrounds, public housing, and public swimming pools in every borough, his legacy is everywhere you look. For […]
It’s a classic, a song that all New Yorkers know and love, it’s Fred Ebb’s, “New York, New York.” Written by Ebbs in 1977 and famously performed by Frank Sinatra in 1979, this song can be seen as an attribute to the historic redevelopment of New York City that heavily […]
