Re: [bomp] Everything that's wrong with New York...

[Michael Snider <lasciviumdei@xxxxxxxxx>]

 --- Sknoof@aol.com escribis: 
> 
> << Everybody blames O'Malley, but that's because
> they don't know shit about 
> Robert Moses >>
> 
> For those of you outside this area: no other
> individual was ever given such 
> complete and total power over any metropolitan
> area's planning, zoning, 
> infranstructure and appearance than Robert Moses. 
> And no one ever did a worse job at 
> it either.  Nor did anyone ever make such an
> impenetrable mess of things 
> (usually for personal gain, or that of his cronies)
> that it could only be 
> rectified by burning down an entire city and all its
> suburbs, sweeping the ashes away 
> and starting the fkk over.

Agreed. And it could have been even worse. Moses
wanted
to build an expressway right through the heart of 
Soho and
Greenwich Village - which was stopped only by major 
community organization. 
> 
> If you come to NYC, and see something that doesn't
> make any sense -- a 
> highway interchange, a collection of buildings, a
> blind intersection, some badly 
> used park space -- and it looks like it's between 35
> and 55 years old --
> 
> he did it.
> 
> Robert Moses did more harm to this city than Osama
> Bin Laden.

Let's put it this way - it's close. 

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