Since the publication of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker five decades ago ... would cross aboveground to the Manhattan Bridge. One of Moses’s signature achievements was the Triborough Bridge, a ...

Robert Caro, author of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, once referred to the Triborough Bridge (known officially as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge) as “a traffic machine.” ...

No matter how you view Robert Moses, there is no doubt the Island was forever changed because of him. As head of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority in the 1950s and 1960s, it was Moses who ...

Toll roads could solve the problem of intra-city linkages, beginning with the Triborough (now Robert F. Kennedy) Bridge in the 1930s. After World War II, Moses became both an instigator of a ...

In 2007, the Museum of the City of New York held an exhibition called “Robert Moses and the Modern ... In fact, if it were true that Moses deliberately sought to lower the height of the parkway bridge ...

I sat in a park in the borough’s leafy eastern reaches, within a short drive of a Robert Moses-constructed bridge (the Bronx-Whitestone) and a Robert Moses-constructed expressway (the Clearview).

at the Bridge Theatre. Moses is best known as the builder of a preponderance of New York City’s highways, and as the subject of Robert Caro’s masterly biography “The Power Broker.” ...