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Culture When Robert Moses laid waste to the Jewish Bronx, was he trying to obliterate his Jewish heritage? A new exhibit about Robert Caro’s ‘The Power Broker’ sheds new light on New York ...
The persistent shortage of lifeguards at city beaches and pools continues to pose danger to the New Yorkers of modest means desperate for ways to stay cool amidst grueling heat waves. The most obvi… ...
Amy Sussman/Getty Images 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.
How Robert Moses, a master urban planner, reshaped New York A new play starring Ralph Fiennes captures its subject’s own transformation from idealist to destroyer ...
In Babylon, residents are advocating for the removal of a statue of Robert Moses, a notable urban planner with a history of prejudice and gentrification.
Robert Caro on 50 Years of ‘The Power Broker’ The Pulitzer-winning biographer revisits his seminal 1974 life of the New York City bureaucrat Robert Moses.
When he was 90 years old, preparing for a 2016 exhibition of new work, Ed Moses zipped across the courtyard of his Los Angeles art studio in a paint-spattered wheelchair and stained Birkenstocks.
Robert Moses was ready to plant a million new clumps of beach grass, by hand, to stop the wind from blowing away new man-made sand dunes.
In 1923, the young, ambitious, then-unknown city planner Robert Moses visited Jones Beach on Long Island countless times. He’d launch a small boat from across the bay and, according to his ...
But it’s more than just a beach; it’s also an artifact from the oft-controversial Robert Moses era of NYC development that still resonates today.