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. Actor Ralph Fiennes stars in a play about Moses opening this ...

I can’t help thinking that Moses as corrupt and underhanded as Caro represents him has been somewhat wronged: New York doesn’t look any worse for wear. When Robert Moses started his climb ...

The Power Broker, Robert Caro’s book about New York City’s master builder, Robert Moses, turned 50 in 2024. Caro’s compelling tale of untrammeled, corrupted power wielded by one man over decades seems ...

Ask urbanists who’s responsible for New York’s twentieth-century trajectory, and most will tell you: Robert Moses. Since the publication of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker five decades ago, the ...

Robert Caro’s magisterial biography of New York City master builder Robert Moses. Indeed, The Power Broker is a spellbinding biography that wraps a busy half-century around the finger of a ...

Fifty years after the publication of The Power Broker, the legacy of urban planner Robert Moses is ripe for revisiting. At ...

Caro was prescient, even if Moses was not. 1934 Robert Moses gubernatorial campaign poster. Courtesy of New York Historical Society But what struck me most strongly this time around is how Caro ...

Robert Caro’s riveting account of the career of the New York City urban planner Robert Moses is being celebrated once again as a modern masterpiece, and it’s hard to quarrel with that judgment.

As a history buff and New York native, she also said she had complicated feelings about Mr. Moses. “I don’t necessarily think Robert Moses is a villain or a hero,” Ms. Frederick said.

Barkan, a novelist, is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine ... within a short drive of a Robert Moses-constructed bridge (the Bronx-Whitestone) and a Robert Moses-constructed ...