Last year, we were excited and intrigued by the idea of a rock musical about New York City’s master builder, Robert Moses, called BULLDOZER: The Ballad of Robert Moses. The wildly entertaining show, ...
The one person who did more than any other human being to shape the future of Long Island was born in Connecticut on Dec. 18, 1888, and died at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip in 1981. Robert ...
Love him or hate him, nearly every aspect of New York City has been shaped by this controversial but masterful builder. Robert Moses was not an architect, engineer, contractor or attorney. But this ...
Ironies should abound in a play about Robert Moses, the urban planner, “master builder” and subject of Robert Caro’s iconic and devastating biography The Power Broker who reshaped New York over four ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y – The 2010 Census numbers are in. If they survive court challenges (the city thinks they’re too low), Staten Island will have an official population of nearly 469,000. We will use ...
FOR ALMOST half a century, from the 1920s to the 1960s, Robert Moses shaped the infrastructure of New York. Brilliant and devious, a charmer but also a bully, he pretended to be a modest public ...
Ascending in political circles solely through appointments, Moses found his way into a series of public offices that gave him the resources to bring about his extraordinary and sometimes ingenious ...