Robert Moses (New York, York: living in, prices, pollution)

[holden125]

Originally Posted by apvbguy

sty town was not built as housing for vets, it was built as housing for the lower income working class

Just as ironic when you think about it.

[apvbguy]

Originally Posted by holden125

Just as ironic when you think about it.

things change, people change, attitudes change, everything changes

[Ogden Assassin]

7th correct me if I'm wrong but I think Moses initially used Title IV to demolish not only Edgemere and Arverne south of the Freeway but a good chunk of the Holland section and Seaside as well which is how the Shore and Dayton Towers got built.

[mead]

From Wikipedia:

Due to a housing crisis building since the Depression, Stuyvesant Town was planned as a post-war housing project already in 1942-43, some years before the war's end. Provision was made that the rental applications of veterans would have selection priority.

Peter Cooper Village—Stuyvesant Town - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Originally Posted by apvbguy

sty town was not built as housing for vets, it was built as housing for the lower income working class

[jcladue]

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[scatman]

I gotta read Power Broker again. When I was in Brooklyn, I used to run past the Prospect. And to think that there were houses there. Now coming up the Bronx and seeing that CBE, I mean geez.....!!!!!

Remember, he wanted to build a Cross Brooklyn Expressway from the Verazzano to Bushwick. Brooklyn College and Flatbush Rest In Peace......!!!!!!

[ptocco]

I just wondered, does anyone know if Robert Moses had an influence on highway design that got replaced by the Big Dig?

[Frank_Carbonni]

There is one good thing I can say about Moses and I think all reasonable people can agree, that at least Robert Moses got things done and without many of the problems that many projects today suffer from. Other civil works projects put people out of their homes, but they never even get built or built only after going millions (or billions over budget) and years of delay. At least he got the damn thing built.

[Joe Bama!]

Originally Posted by Frank_Carbonni

There is one good thing I can say about Moses and I think all reasonable people can agree, that at least Robert Moses got things done and without many of the problems that many projects today suffer from. Other civil works projects put people out of their homes, but they never even get built or built only after going millions (or billions over budget) and years of delay. At least he got the damn thing built.

Kinda like George Bush. Mission Accomplished no matter what it cost.

[Fred314X]

Absolutely! If all you wanted were results, then Moses was your guy. But if you cared about things like, say, people, then maybe he wasn't your guy. All the neighborhoods he destroyed in The Bronx with his Cross-Bronx Expressway still haven't recovered.