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Article: Robert Moses: the master builder. (Municipal Art Society, New York) (Architecture) (column)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- April 24, 1989
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Whatever else you may say about New York's master builder--the man who commandeered the bridges and tunnels, the roads, housing, parks and public structures of the four middle decades of the twentieth-century city -- the Power Broker who left a legacy of fifteen bridges and a half-dozen beaches (among them Jones Beach), not to mention Lincoln Center, the United Nations and two World's Fairs; the planter of more than two million trees and the displacer of more than 500,000 tenants--one fact remains: Neither the good nor the evil that Robert Moses did has been interred with his bones.
In the past few months of celebrating -- observing would be a more neutral ...
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