Moses may later have “built every one” of New York’s roads, as Caro wrote, but he did not conceive them. Politicians, planners, business interests, and the press all thought, independently of Moses, ...

Moses said in 1964, "We don't pay too much attention to the critics. They never build anything, no critic ever built anything." And that was just it: Robert Moses did build things, and not just roads.

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 ...

Robert Moses redesigned New York City with bruising efficiency. He built 416 miles of parkways, 13 bridges, 658 playgrounds in the New York metro area, changing the way all American cities ...

Ralph Fiennes as the notorious urban planner Robert Moses in David Hare’s play “Straight Line Crazy” at the Shed in ... On the theory that no one will tear up a road once it’s built, ...

Still, Moses stood tall over the New York scene and by extension the American scene for 40 years. Ralph Fiennes plays power broker Robert Moses in David Hare's new play at The Shed in New York.

But one of those Moses roads that actually never got fully built out provides a view of the Staten Island Expressway (another Moses project) that few borough residents have likely ever seen.

Like Mr. Ford, Robert Moses was hell-bent on building more, better, wider roads. ... Moses’s beautiful new roads filled up almost as soon as they opened.

In Robert Caro's Upper West Side office, it is 1965. "Like right now, just at this moment, Lyndon Johnson is creating Medicare," Caro told me in the middle of a recent interview. "It's July, 1965 ...

And Robert Moses is somebody who created a beautiful park like that in his mind and built it. CARO: Yeah. DETROW: And he's also the person who callously destroyed East Tremont.