These things seemed obvious, even at the time. His motivation for not building them was more sinister: poor people used public transit.
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In Long Island, he built low-clearance bridges over the Parkways leading to Jones Beach State Park, almost 200 in total.
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This effectively denied bus access to the destination, blocking out Black folks from Harlem.
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He could have run the Cross Bronx through East Tremont along Crotana Park, but chose instead to run it through a Jewish neighborhood.
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1500+ people were displaced and lost their homes because of this.
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He built playgrounds in rich neighborhoods, but only one in Harlem. The ironwork on the fence was adorned with monkeyspic.twitter.com/txIC7ksvcE
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Robert Moses weaponized Civil Engineering and Urban Planning to suppress marginalized communities. Engineering is always political.
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Wow, I didn't know all this about Robert Moses. I see a lot of his work in the Buffalo/Niagara area too & I'd never really thought about it.
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Not seeing it is a true masterstroke of insipid racism
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I wonder how many other people there are whose names I know but I don't know their horrible stories. Surely lots. It feels overwhelming.
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