It’s rather quaint to read of an effort to widen a Long Island, N.Y., highway–reminiscent of the days when Robert Moses and others carved out easier traffic routes to bring the isle’s eastern reaches to within just a few hours of New York City. But as Newsday reports, that’s what Republican officials in Suffolk CountyContinue reading “Add Express Lanes to Reflect Long Island Growth?”
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50 Years On, Is Caro’s Word on Robert Moses To Be the Last?
Robert Caro has gone on to greater national fame with his (still in the works) biographies of Lyndon Johnson. But in the New York area, particularly, he is renowned for his work, The Power Broker, about local planning czar Robert Moses. It is the 50th anniversary of the publication of that Pulitzer Prize-winning book, whichContinue reading “50 Years On, Is Caro’s Word on Robert Moses To Be the Last?”
