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So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m. on WNYC and WNY It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. Now we continue our

WNYC Centennial series 100 years of 100 things. It's Thing 22 today and it's kind of a two for one. A hundred years

of Robert Moses, the iconic urban planner who designed so much of New York's

infrastructure,

structure for better and for worse.

And 50 years of the power broker,

the iconic book about Robert Moses, written

by Robert Caro.

Robert Moses grew up in New Haven and Manhattan

110 years ago in 1914.

He earned a doctorate in political science from Columbia.

He started out in public life as an idealist and a reformer.

A hundred years ago in 1924, Governor Al Smith appointed Moses to several positions overseeing parks,

including President of the Long Island State Park Commission.

And in that year, 1924, a hundred years ago, Robert Moses conceived of building Jones Beach. He talked about

it in a 1959 interview. I think this is from NBC News in a series titled manufacturing intellect.

Now you take a thing like projects like Jones Beach for example.

Well, we've been at Jones Beach since 1924.

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