Sublime

He had told Moses, O’Dwyer said, that if he was elected he would immediately create a new post to handle a vast program of postwar public works construction, a “Coordinator of Construction” with sweeping powers not only over parks, parkways, bridges and tunnels, but over the construction of public housing, the field from which Moses had been barred

And while Moses went to the top, he did not stop there, wining and dining reporters as well as publishers, inviting key ones to his elaborate opening-ceremony luncheons, to an annual swimming and dinner outing at Jones Beach, to more intimate, and elaborate, luncheons at Belmont Lake State Park, to the Park Department’s Christmas party at the

New York was a city in which public office was, increasingly, a means to private profit.