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Robert Moses, from ‘Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York.’ Mesmerizing views of waterways and the bridges that span them are part of the master builder’s enduring legacy, Francis Morrone writes. Read more... |
Great Cities Need Great Builders
Architecture
By EDWARD GLAESER
Robert Moses still bestrides New York like a colossus. More than three decades have passed since Jane Jacobs and Robert Caro tore down Moses's once pristine public image, but his physical legacy remains standing. Our New York is Moses's New York. He...
Robert Moses's Vision of New York
Abroad in New York
By FRANCIS MORRONE
Robert Caro's spellbinding study of Robert Moses, "The Power Broker," appeared 33 years ago. Mr. Caro's subtitle tilts his hand: "Robert Moses and the Fall of New York." In the 1970s, New York seemed to be in freefall. The city was on the verge of...
Small Models For a Towering Builder
Architecture
By GARY SHAPIRO
Midtown Manhattan lay in a jumble of six pieces in the back office space at the Queens Museum of Art. As though in a remake of "King Kong," a museum conservator, Joseph Chiarello, towered over the Empire State Building, reaching down amid a swath of...
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Moses Parting the Waters
Abroad in New York
By FRANCIS MORRONE
Robert Moses never learned how to drive. But he did know how to swim and was on the swim team at Yale. For years, whenever people thought of Moses, they thought of water. He built a marina at 79th Street. His bridges vaulted over bodies of water....
Robert Moses and ‘The Great Gatsby'
Abroad in New York
By FRANCIS MORRONE
Now more than ever is the time to go to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens. The Queens Museum of Art, housed in the old New York City Building from the 1939 World's Fair, hosts, beginning this Sunday, "The Road to Recreation," a major, dazzling...
Saluting Robert Moses
By JOHN McWHORTER
This week and next no fewer than three museum exhibits will be opening in New York City examining the work of Robert Moses. His job titles seem prosaic: New York City Parks Commissioner, Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority Chairman, and the like....
The Mighty City
Museums
By FRANCIS MORRONE
All great cities are combinations of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses. Cities grow organically, and often the soul of a city is found in its emergent form, in the thousands of incremental bottom-up tweaks and in what Michael Polanyi called "tacit...
Three Gardens in Central Park
Abroad in New York
By FRANCIS MORRONE
Robert Moses came to work for New York City in 1934. He had earlier distinguished himself — indeed, become internationally renowned — for his parks and parkways on Long Island. For a city mired in depression and advanced physical decay, getting Moses...
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