Events

Panel Discussion: The Wars of the Moses, Battles Won and Lost

Henry Stern, director of New York Civic and former parks commissioner, will lead a panel discussion on Robert Moses and the controversies that surrounded him, including such issues as parks and what could be built in them, race and class, and the role of community members in the decision-making process. Joining Mr. Stern will be Betsy Barlow Rogers, founder and first president of the Central Park Conservancy; Herbert I. London, President, Hudson Institute, and others.

By Aaron Donovan

11:36 PM EST on February 2, 2007

Henry Stern, director of New York Civic and former parks commissioner, will lead a panel discussion on Robert Moses and the controversies that surrounded him, including such issues as parks and what could be built in them, race and class, and the role of community members in the decision-making process. Joining Mr. Stern will be Betsy Barlow Rogers, founder and first president of the Central Park Conservancy; Herbert I. London, President, Hudson Institute, and others.

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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