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NYC considers 'capping' parts of Cross Bronx 'to make the community whole again'

Newsday 18 Oct 2024
The department is eyeing 13 sections of the Cross Bronx to be considered for capping, "to help undo the injustice of Robert Moses, who bulldozed through the communities to build the Cross Bronx ...
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Mayor Adams could learn a good lesson from Bloomberg’s real ‘city of yes’

New York Post 04 Aug 2024
9. A new book looks at the lasting legacy of Dan Doctoroff, Bloomberg’s deputy mayor for economic development ... ... The Bloomberg-Doctoroff team functioned as a 21st Century Robert Moses without bulldozers, passionate about New York City’s future growth.
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Clarence Page: A small step toward reversing the harm of Chicago’s expressways

Daily Freeman 24 Apr 2024
She advocated preserving the village-like neighborhoods such as Greenwich Village, where she lived — and which was once threatened by Moses’ plans until Jacobs and others stopped the bulldozers.
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‘I am ecstatic’: Racist architecture removed after NYC TikToker calls it out

The Daily Dot 24 Oct 2023
An article from NPR references the biography, reporting that Moses "bulldozed Black and Latino homes to make way for parks, and built highways through the middle of minority neighborhoods." ... "Effectively barring them from Moses’ parks.".
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‘I don’t want to be forgotten’: Lower East Side street corner named after housing activist ...

AM New York 10 Oct 2023
The charismatic character made her mark in the late 50s, when she successfully fought against Robert Moses’ plan to bulldoze a twelve-stretch block of historic and affordable housing in the Lower East Side to build a cross-Manhattan Expressway.
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Heralding back: May 12, 2023

Hawaii Catholic Herald 10 May 2023
Feeling like Moses. On May 7, amidst the beep, beep, beep, beeping of heavy trucks, the exhaust of bulldozers and the hum of the highway, Bishop Joseph A ... “I can’t help but feel a little like Moses when he reached the promised Land,” said St ... .
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Crews contain wildfire Wednesday afternoon in Stony Fork area

Watauga Democrat 02 Mar 2023
A forestry bulldozer constructed a fire line down from the top of the staging area to a creek the very bottom. A crew then created a hand line from where the bulldozer stopped approximately 20 feet to the creek to finish the line ... Photo by Moses White.
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What Edward Hopper saw

Economist 26 Jan 2023
... his building, it preserved his top-floor studio? He would no doubt be relieved that Jane Jacobs, the urban theorist and activist, stymied Moses in bulldozing an expressway through Greenwich Village.
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Letter: Cutting down Newbury trees would be vandalism

Newburyport Daily News 17 Nov 2022
To the editor. ... In the interests of “public safety,” the verdict is. These trees must come down ... But to conclude that all must be replaced is a methodology that Robert Moses would have been proud of. If something is in the way, bulldoze it ... Newbury. .
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Ralph Fiennes, Samuel L. Jackson electrify the drama on N.Y. stages

The Day 11 Nov 2022
New YorkThere are so many things to dislike about Robert Moses, the single-minded city planner who bulldozed 20th-century New York into submission ... Fiennes’s unsparing portrayal — he takes Moses to withering heights — is central to the play.
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Texas City has major flood control work planned

The Galveston Daily News 03 Aug 2022
A lot of the attention will be paid to Moses Lake and the attendant rainwater pumping stations ... It has gotten to be good planning for a development to bulldoze out a little lake to take all the unwanted water ... There are two pump stations on Moses Lake.
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Crush ’em! NYPD flattens more dirt bikes, ATVs in Brooklyn while touting ongoing crackdown

The Villager 21 Jun 2022
Photo by Dean Moses ... Photo by Dean Moses Photo by Dean Moses ... Mayor Eric Adams signals a bulldozer to crush a hundred illegal dirt bikes and ATVs.Photo by Dean Moses Photo by Dean Moses Photo by Dean Moses Photo by Dean Moses ....
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