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He had amassed so much power that by the early, you know, late 50s, early 60s,

no one could control him. Oh, Robert Moses is so ingrained in the history of New York City. At the height of his power, the master builder looking to renew a

city, a city broken, a city too old. At the height of his power he held 12 offices, among them City Parks Commissioner, State Parks Council

Head, State Power Commission, Chairman of the Tribborough Bridge Authority, from the 1920s to the late 60s.

He'd build 13 bridges in the city, 658 playgrounds, 150,000 housing units and 416 miles of parkways.

His first projects came from the huge monies of public spending for the PWA and the WPA as part of the new deal.

In 1936, he built the Triburo Bridge, connecting Manhattan, Bronx, and Queens in New York City.

Said the New Yorker,

Between 46 and 54, no public improvement of any type, no school or sewer, was built on any city location unless Moses approved it.

Even the United Nations Building today retains his mark.

Yet that New Yorker article was written in a time

when there was a very positive image of Robert Moses.

Moses had a bit of a dark side. He destroyed

tenements, but also seemed to detest the people who were living in them. A recent

study of his parkways confirmed that their overpass

clearance is well below those of surrounding causeways, those built by other

builders, a step that many points to was made to avoid buses and

mass transit. Some of his supporters say, barring big vehicles, was aligned with other goals of barring noisy trucks.

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