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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

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, 100 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 a project like Jones Beach, for example.

Well, we've been at Jones Beach since 1984.

That's a long time. The original plan is no different from the present plan.

We've carried out about maybe 70% of it, 75% of it, in the course of 35 years. That's how long

it's taken. And it just happens to be our good fortune or luck or whatever you may call it,

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