The pharaonic builder shaped modern New York, building bigger roads which filled up with motorists almost as soon as they opened
It’s a golden season for devotees of the brilliant journalist and biographer Robert Caro. It has been 50 years since the publication of his masterworkNewspaper and magazine writers are revisiting and re-evaluating the book.
But what does this have to do with the here and now? Quite a bit, it turns out. At least if you live in my city. To save time, Mr. Ford might skip to the chapter called One Mile. Mr. Caro describes how Moses rammed the Cross Bronx Expressway through the heavily populated borough, gutting the stable low-income neighbourhood of East Tremont and forcing thousands of people from their homes.
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