Robert Moses
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Robert Moses was an American urban planner and public official who worked in the New York metropolitan area during the early to mid-20th century. Moses is regarded as one of the most powerful and infl
Moses in 1939
1934 campaign poster
The BQE cantilevered section in 2024, seen from Brooklyn Bridge Park
Part of the Triborough Bridge (left) with Astoria Park and its pool in the center
The Power Broker
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a 1974 biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro. The book focuses on the creation and use of power in New York local and state politics, as w
Robert Moses
…Jacobs, and elected officials began to cast doubt over the purported benefits of many of Moses' projects. Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography The Power Broker (1974) further characterized Moses' practices as controlling, overly focused on car dependency, and having a disproportionately negative effect on poor…
Cover art of The Power Broker since publication
Caro's Francis Parkman Prize
"Turn Every Page" exhibit at the New-York Historical Society