This is the 99% invisible breakdown of the power broker. I'm Roman Mars.

And I'm Elliot Kalin.

Today we're covering part four of the end of the section called The Use of Power.

That's chapters 21 through 24 and in my book

those are pages 402 to 495. Later on our guest for this episode will be Brandy Zadrosny

she's a senior reporter for NBC news who covers

misinformation, conspiracy theories, and the internet. She recently finished the

power broker and she's got a great perspective on what the book says about

the press and its relationship to power, what has changed

in journalism, and what remains the same.

So when we last left the power broker, the Depression is dawning. Robert Moses keeps opening

State Park projects and to great public acclaim he's just a hero. Moses gets

Governor Lehman and Mayor LaGuardia to give him total control over anything remotely

park related in New York City and passes a new law where a state person and a city

person can do all this stuff at once. He immediately refurbishes New York City's

major parks.

He's unveiled this massive plan for building expressways and bridges

through and around the cities that people don't have to go

through Manhattan to get to places on either side anymore

and the Tribal Bridge Authority has begun to actually start. to places on either side anymore. And the Triburo Bridge authority

has begun to actually start building the Triburo Bridge,

which will become the centerpiece

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