Robert Moses
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City: BQE Must Be Rebuilt to Last a Century … To Prevent More Pollution
Paging Mr. Orwell: Doubling down on the Robert Moses highway is actually good for neighborhoods nearby, the city claims.
March 21, 2024
The State Has ‘No Plans’ to Redesign the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
State DOT has “no plans” to “redesign the state-owned portion of the BQE," spokesman Joseph Morrissey confirmed in an email to Streetsblog last week.
February 9, 2023
Manhattan Panel Backs Henry Hudson Parkway Bike Lane
Getting to the Empire State Trail from the Hudson River Greenway is quite the climb! Could a bike lane be the answer — and to a greenway closure, too?
April 28, 2021
Vision Zero Cities Conference: How to Repeal the Legacy of Robert Moses
We can shatter Robert Moses's blueprint for cities across America — and the injustices that endure to this day — but it's not easy.
October 20, 2020
THOSE WERE THE DAYS: What Car Culture Has Cost Us
Some then-and-now photos of New York City show how residents lost precious space to the automobile. What we could do to fix it.
August 14, 2020
Controversial Rotunda Project Proceeds Despite COVID Budget Woes
The reconstruction of the Riverside Park Rotunda and traffic circle forges ahead — without the cycling safety measures the community demanded. Cue the complaints.
August 11, 2020
Robert Caro Stands By His ‘Power Broker’ Sub-Title — And Here’s Why
In 1974, he underscored his magnum opus as "Robert Moses and the Fall of New York." This week, Caro reiterated that New York has never recovered from the master builder's evil.
April 10, 2019
Cuomo: Robert Moses Would Be Proud of My Transit-Free Tappan Zee Bridge
Governor Andrew Cuomo's Tappan Zee Bridge bears all the hallmarks of a Robert Moses project. Cuomo stripped popular transit elements from the original, publicly-conceived plan, leaving only a massive highway. Cuomo has shut down the public outreach process for the bridge entirely. He's even moving to sign the contracts to build the bridge before answering basic questions about its design and funding. (Cuomo's less-than-transparent answer about how the state will pay for the bridge today: "We're working on a number of funding options.")
May 3, 2012
Fighting Freeways: War Stories From Portland
Rail~volution is underway in Portland, Oregon, bringing together more than 1,000 city planners, engineers, transit advocates, bike policy experts, and elected officials to strategize about making cities and towns better for transit, walking, and biking.
October 19, 2010
What Should We Learn From Moses and Jacobs?
There is probably no more beloved figure in urbanism than Jane Jacobs, who fought to preserve some of New York City's most treasured neighborhoods and who gave urbanists some of the field's fundamental texts. As Ed Glaeser notes in the New Republic this week, Jacobs died in 2006 "a cherished, almost saintly figure," while her principal antagonist, Robert Moses, remains popularly reviled as a villain.
September 9, 2009