Robert Moses

How America Became an Automobile Nation

Joan Marans Dim | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Traffic, Autos, George Washington Bridge, Traffic Jams, Othmar H. Ammann, Robert Moses, Motor Vehicles, Pollution, Congestion, Automobile History, Car History, New York News
Joan Marans Dim

This Memorial Day weekend, as we take our automobiles out for a costly, gasping, traffic-clogged spin, it's instructive to remember that the road to hell is often paved with good intentions.

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Robert Moses and the Second Avenue Subway

Joan Marans Dim | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Robert Caro, Robert Moses, Second Avenue Subway, Mta, William Bredderman, Subway, New York News
Joan Marans Dim

The world was allegedly created in six days (God rested on the seventh day), so why is it taking New York City so long -- some 90 years, or possibly longer -- to create the Second Avenue Subway?

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Obama's Not So New Deal

Tom Silva | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Keynesian Economics, Doreen Massey, Obama Infrastructure, David Harvey, Robert Moses, Baron Georges Haussman, President Obama, Politics News
Tom Silva

The truth is that top-down government spending is as old as capitalism and not an invention that starts with Roosevelt and the WPA of the 1930s.

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Oliver Stone's New Favorite Megalomaniac

ARTINFO | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Architecture, Robert Moses, Art, Artinfo, Oliver Stone, Urban Planning, New York, New York City, Arts News
ARTINFO

Every robber baron is probably green with envy for the late Robert Moses, a powerful and polarizing force who shaped New York as we now know it, becau...

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A Rose for Parks

Henry J. Stern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joan Davidson, Frances Beinecke, Andrew Cuomo, Carol Ash, Kim Elliman, Ned Sullivan, Robert Moses, Herbert Lehman, Nelson Rockefeller, Rose Harvey, Lucy Rockefeller Waletzky, Adrian Benepe, Laurance Rockefeller, New York News
Henry J. Stern

It was particularly satisfying for me to learn that Governor Cuomo has appointed Rose H. Harvey (park name "Harvest") as New York State Parks Commissioner.

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Angry Trump Can't Finish Jones Beach Oasis

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Moses, Donald Trump, Trump, NY Real Estate, Jones Beach, NY Around Town, New York News

WANTAGH, N.Y. — After promising in typical Trumpian modesty to replace a restaurant at a landmark New York beach with "the finest dining and ban...

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Westway Changed Transportation History

Roberta Brandes Gratz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Westway, Soho, West Side Highway, City History, Urban Planning, Transportation, Mass Transit, Hugh Carey, Robert Moses, New York News
Roberta Brandes Gratz

Westway was more than a highway; it reflected a national mindset. First proposed in the 1970s, Westway reflected post-war thinking that highways were the most important transportation investment.

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Seven Questions You Asked

Henry J. Stern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minnie Minoso, New York Cubans, Fiorello LaGuardia, Gracie Mansion, Robert Moses, Martin Dihigo, Hell in a Handbasket, Archibald Gracie, Carl Schurz Park, New York News
Henry J. Stern

Bicameralism gives every citizen two legislators to elect, so if one is a dope or a crook, a voter can go to the other for assistance or information.

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Great Houses of New York: The River Club, the Best Address, Part III

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York, Muriel Siebert, The Dakota, Emily Post, Robert Moses, The Berkshire, Tennis, The East River Drive, River House, Town and Country Magazine, Vincent Astor, The Osborne, Debutante, Rockefeller, Bridge, William De Rham, Jewish, Vanderbilt, One Sutton Place South, Discrimination, Whitney, The River Club, E. T. Williams, Wasp, Augusta Owen Patterson, Co-Op Board Bias, 10 Gracie Square, African Americans, Martin A. Siegel, L James B. Stewart, Latinos, Robin Duke, Angier Biddle Duke, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Except for having no golf course, the River Club at 447 East 52nd Street is as close to a country club as one could find in the middle of New York City.

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Tavern on the Green, Landmark Central Park Restaurant, Files For Chapter 11

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tavern on the Green Bankruptcy, Robert Moses, Tavern on the Green Bankrupt, Tavern on the Green, New York Central Park, Warner Leroy, Central Park, Dean Poll, NYC Restaurants, Jennifer Leroy, New York News

NEW YORK — Tavern on the Green, the landmark restaurant in New York City's Central Park, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The fi...

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Bricks, Mortar, Bloomberg, Moses

Jarrett Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mike Bloomberg, Campaign 2009, Atlantic Yards, Robert Moses, Community Organizing, New York, Jane Jacobs, New York News
Jarrett Murphy

When you add all that's been proposed, planned and built under this administration, it's hard to think of another figure since Moses who has presided over as significant an effort to reshape the physical city as Bloomberg has.

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Monday Music Quarterback

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guardian, Tori Amos, Conor Oberst, Tyrone Wells, Denison Witmer, Country Joe McDonald, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Comic-Con, Dan Fogler, , Henry Goodman, Sling Blade, Jonathan Groff, Rosa Agostino, Eric Rosse, Porno for Pyros, Matt Hires, John Mayer, Arcade Fire, Vienna Film Festival, Eugene Levy, One Tree Hill, Silver Mt. Zion, Martyn Lenoble, Screaming Trees, Sufjan Stevens, Gossip Girl, Queens of the Stone Age, Guy Picciotto, Elvis Costello, Mike Patton, Cowboy Junkies, Jem Cohen, Asthmatic Kitty Records, Battlestar Galactica, Modest Mouse, Rick Rubin, Dmetri Martin, Beth Ditto, Robert Moses, Brace Paine, P-Vine Records, Entertainment Weekly, Ry Cooder, Laurel Canyon, Marc Broussard, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Gossip, Supernatural, Vic Chestnutt, Townes Van Zandt, Emile Hirsch, Elephant Six, Robert Francis, Constellation Records, Farscape, Speed Racer, Michael Stipe, O.a.R., Danny Elfman, Jefferson Airplane, Arlo Guthrie, Elf Power, Myspace, Melanie, Richard Warren, Imelda Staunton, Steve Earle, Grateful Dead, The BQE, Stephen Halker, Jane's Addiction, Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, World's Fair, Paolo Nutini, Rosie Thomas, Osso Quartet, Janis Joplin, Ang Lee, Atlantic Records, Hannah Billie, Woodstock, Bill Frisell, The Hives, Mark Lanegan, Chinese Zodiac, Love, Richard Hawley, Empires of Tin, Spunk Records, Danielson Famile, Crosby Stills & Nash, Elliot Tiber, My Brightest Diamond, Npr, Liev Schrieber, Canned Heat, Iron Man II, Rough Trade Records, Howard Bilerman, Jason Pierce, Dennis Herring, The Doors, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Red Ghost, Richie Havens, Itunes, The Band, R.E.M., Taking Woodstock, The Observer, Bruce Springsteen, Clash, Mutemath, Fugazi, Lambchop, Sparklehorse, Spiritualized, Viewmaster, 92ytribecca, Japan, Athens-Georgia, Detroit-Michigan, Louisiana, Tampa-Florida, Seattle-Washington, Montreal-Canada, Canada, New York-New York, Los Angeles-California, Salt Lake City-Utah, United Kingdom, Australia, New Orleans-Louisiana, Oxford-Mississippi, San Francisco-California, Chicago-Illinois, Portland-Oregon, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

As you're recovering from the joyful overkill that was this year's Comic-Con, take a few moments to catch-up on a handful of the more interesting new press releases.

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O'Malley vs. Moses, a Half-Century Later

Robert E. Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walter O?Malley, Robert Caro, Los Angeles Dodgers, Michael Shapiro, Tom Oliphant, Robert Moses, Neil Sullivan, Brooklyn Dodgers, Henry Fetter, Michael D'Antonio, New York News
Robert E. Murphy

The words "Brooklyn" and "Dodgers" were so firmly bonded that their separation had not been imaginable, but in 1957 Walter O'Malley managed to separate them.

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