Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Robert Moses

Cuomo: Robert Moses Would Be Proud of My Transit-Free Tappan Zee Bridge

By Noah Kazis | May 3, 2012 | 12 Comments

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Tappan Zee Bridge bears all the hallmarks of a Robert Moses project. Cuomo stripped popular transit elements from the original, publicly-conceived plan, leaving only a massive highway. Cuomo has shut down the public outreach process for the bridge entirely. He’s even moving to sign the contracts to build the bridge before answering […]

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Fighting Freeways: War Stories From Portland

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 19, 2010

Rail~volution is underway in Portland, Oregon, bringing together more than 1,000 city planners, engineers, transit advocates, bike policy experts, and elected officials to strategize about making cities and towns better for transit, walking, and biking. Monday started with 15 different workshops that took place around the city, including one highlighting Portland’s “Lost Freeways” – the […]

What Should We Learn From Moses and Jacobs?

By Ryan Avent | Sep 9, 2009 | 13 Comments

There is probably no more beloved figure in urbanism than Jane Jacobs, who fought to preserve some of New York City’s most treasured neighborhoods and who gave urbanists some of the field’s fundamental texts. As Ed Glaeser notes in the New Republic this week, Jacobs died in 2006 "a cherished, almost saintly figure," while her […]

Economy Hitting the Skids? Time to Get Ambitious About Transportation

By Ben Fried | Oct 7, 2008 | 17 Comments

T.A. director Paul White sends along this little nugget he came across in the New York Times archive. Read it for a timely review (penned by a pre-Bilbao Herbert Muschamp) of a Municipal Art Society show staged the last time an economic downturn coincided with a presidential election, in 1992: "Steel, Stone and Backbone," which […]

Moses to LaGuardia: Bikes Have No Place on the Street

By Ben Fried | Mar 19, 2008 | 4 Comments

Dave Lutz of the Neighborhood Open Space Coalition has been digging through the Municipal Archives and look what he found: a 1938 memo from Robert Moses to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia about the need to create a network of dedicated bike paths in city parks. Moses’s reasoning looks odd to modern eyes, in part because he […]

Does New York Need a ‘New Moses’?

By Brad Aaron | Sep 13, 2007 | 24 Comments

Okay, so the question comprising the title of this post sounds naive enough to border on rhetorical. But in light of the city’s current development climate, it takes a stronger resolve than mine to read "Power Broken," by NYU’s Thomas Bender, without wondering which side of the fence to come down on. Published in the latest edition of […]

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