Sublime

By the 1930’s, Robert Moses’ affairs were openly gossiped about in New York political and society circles—particularly

The profit in public works in New York had long been huge; with the postwar building boom, it reached new dimensions.

To the people of East Tremont, East Tremont was family. In its bricks were generations.

New York was a city divided by water, split by rivers and bays. Every modern water crossing within the city’s borders, not only those above the water but those beneath it, not only every bridge but every tunnel constructed within the city’s borders for the use of motor vehicles since 1909, was now under the control of authorities that he controlled