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4 days ago · This land had been home to the Corona Ash Dumps—immortalized as the “valley of ashes” in The Great Gatsby—until master builder Robert Moses set out to transform the area by selecting it as ...
- 10 Secrets of the Triborough Bridge in NYC - Untapped New York
Robert Caro, author of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and...
- 10 Secrets of the Triborough Bridge in NYC - Untapped New York
3 days ago · Robert Moses has generally been identified as her arch-rival during this period. One of their primary differences was their opposite views, the "top down" aggressive approach practiced by Moses contracted the "bottom up" approach practiced by Jacobs that considered the community.
4 days ago · The Panorama model was designed by Robert Moses for the World’s Fair, and she tells The New York Times, “It made you realize that if only Robert Moses had done everything in miniature, we...
4 days ago · In September 1947, Robert Moses, the chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority (TBTA), announced that the city was going to ask the War Department for permission to build a bridge across the Narrows. Moses had previously created a feasibility study for a Narrows tunnel, finding that it would be much cheaper to build a bridge.
4 days ago · Robert Caro, author of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, once referred to the Triborough Bridge (known officially as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge) as “a traffic machine...
4 days ago · July 22, 2024. Robert Moses in 1960, in front of the plans for the 1964 New York World’s Fair. Image courtesy of the New York Times. The more things change the more they stay the same. – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, 1849. Robert Moses is a controversial figure in urban planning history, whose influential reach exploded far beyond the native ...
5 days ago · Moses played in the centres in the club's grand final loss to St George that year but later won premierships with the Rabbitohs in 1967 and 1968 - the latter after moving to the forwards. Moses played in the shock loss to Balmain in 1969 but shifted to Manly in the early 1970s.
