As the sun streams through a bank of windows in Dance Mission Studio 3 on a Monday afternoon in February, Robert Moses leads 11 dancers through a rapid series of conversational hand gestures, swooping ...

I sat in a park in the borough’s leafy eastern reaches, within a short drive of a Robert Moses-constructed ... through the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sunset Park, it was not yet a Latino and ...

Robert Caro’s magisterial biography of New York City master builder Robert Moses. Indeed, The Power Broker is a spellbinding biography that wraps a busy half-century around the finger of a ...

Robert Caro’s 1974 biography “The Power Broker” is a book befitting its subject, Robert Moses — the unelected parochial technocrat who used a series of appointed positions to entirely ...

Robert Caro, left, in 2007, and Robert Moses in 1958.Credit...Dima Gavrysh/Bloomberg, via Getty Images (Caro), Archive Photos, via Getty Images (Moses), Illustration by Ricardo Tomás Supported by ...

Caro’s book on Robert Moses, a city planner who reshaped New York, is also a reflection on “the dangers of unchecked power,” and remains more resonant and relevant than ever. By Alexandra ...