For 44 years, Robert Moses ruled over New York. Unelected, his power drawn from up to 12 concurrent city, state and federal appointments, he used his unparalleled control of public authorities ...

My New York has been like an urban safari for more than ... If Robert Moses had given those and other much more problematic decisions a wider concern for more efficient urbanization changes the ...

One of the true absurdities of New York City’s major landmarks and public works is that none is named for Robert Moses. It’s time to rectify that. Moses died 34 years ago today.

To most, Robert Moses, who died 38 years ago today in West Islip, L.I., was a villain — an unelected dictator who bent New York City to his will with his works of stone, steel and concrete.

The book’s phenomenal resonance with New Yorkers in the 1970s is evident in the subtitle: “Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. “The “Fall of New York” was on just about everyone’s mind in 1974. For ...

Caro, who was a reporter covering Robert Moses at Newsday in the late 1960s, took seven years to write The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, a good chunk of it spent researching ...

Moses was considered the most powerful man in New York for four decades, as he envisioned and built public works whose aftereffects determine how New Yorkers experience the city to this day.

News about Robert Moses, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. Skip to content Skip to site index.

Robert Moses was born on Dec. 18, 1888, in New Haven, Conn., to Emanuel and Bella Moses. The elder Moses had earned millions in the department-store business and moved his family to New York City.