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When Robert Moses started his climb, I cannot think of a single significant metropolis in America that didn’t have have streets and closets lined with corrupt climbers and politicians.
Robert Moses in rehearsal for the 30th anniversary aeason of Robert Moses’ KIN. Credit: Steve Disenhof Some 30 years later, Moses continues to exert deep and widespread influence on the Bay Area ...
Robert Moses, the man who rebuilt New York If you don't know who Robert Moses was, this picture of a scowling giant straddling New York City's vast sprawl will give you a hint.
Robert Caro’s 1974 biography “The Power Broker” is a book befitting its subject, Robert Moses — the unelected parochial technocrat who used a series of appointed positions to entirely ...
Moses-style efforts should be applied, too, to the construction of high-speed rail, wind farms, new transmission lines and the infrastructure needed to prepare the nation for climate change.
Robert Moses reimagined: Off-Broadway play ‘Straight Line Crazy’ takes on legacy of NYC’s controversial master builder Manuel Harlan/Courtesy of the Bridge Theater via Polk and Co.
Power broker Robert Moses is seen as a villain now, but he transformed the urban landscape, sometimes for good. The play "Straight Line Crazy" starring Ralph Fiennes explores his legacy.
The iron monkeys with shackled wrists were mentioned in “The Power Broker,” which was published nearly 50 years ago, but had remained mounted in a Riverside Park playground until recently.
Big CITY Why Are We Still Obsessed With Robert Moses? David Hare’s sold-out play about the brutal planning czar coaxes us toward a reappraisal — maybe.
A humpback whale washed up onto the beach at Robert Moses State Park on Friday morning, according to officials from the New York State Parks Department and Atlantic Marine Conservation Society.
Moses’ actual demeanor and utterance, as portrayed in the nearly 1,300 pages of Robert Caro’s biography “The Power Broker,” are little in evidence at the Hudson Yards theater.
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