This exhibit highlights a number of projects Moses built under the “slum clearance” housing and urban renewal programs, all apartment buildings varying in design quality from the most familiar red ...

Because Robert Moses Would Have a Coronary If He Were to See Our Streets Now. ... Vans and trucks park on the other side of the planters, barricading the new plaza from moving cars.

Carly Johnson in Robert Moses’ “SILT,” 2015. Credit: RJ Muna. Yet, rather than indulge in nostalgia for his early years, Moses has set out to offer an indictment of the predicament in which our nation ...

When Robert Moses began making his move, it wasn’t as if the powers that be were blind: Al Smith the future governor and Fiorello H. La Guardia weren’t naive politicians.

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.

Robert Moses ran the 1964 New York World's Fair, but it was a financial failure. By 1968, he had been maneuvered out of power. He died in 1981, at 92, embittered.

This story was reported by Zachary R. Dowdy, Daysi Calavia-Robertson, Colin Stephenson, and Dandan Zou. It was written by Dowdy. A statue of Robert Moses, the master planner who designed many of ...

“Robert Moses, 1888-1981” the plaque reads, “was responsible for more buildings than any single person since the pharaohs ruled Egypt.” (This quote is derived partially from a eulogy by ...

The name Robert Moses inspires rage among right-thinking New Yorkers and bike-lane enthusiasts everywhere, who claim the master builder of New York was a racist and segregationist. The mania for pu… ...

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.

Now Mr. Fiennes is in New York, starring at the Shed in “Straight Line Crazy” as Robert Moses, the master builder who created, for better or worse, the New York of today.