Robert Moses regularly and deliberately corralled and cut off minority and low income neighborhoods as part his major capital projects in New York. This story needs more exposure.https://boingboing.net/2016/08/22/robert-moses-wove-enduring-rac.html …
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Many minority people were displaced to make room for Lincoln Center.
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Same for Arch in St. Louis where blacks were barred by construction unions from working on the site. So they got kicked off the land and not able to work on the new construction. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-st-louis-gateway-arch-180956624/ …
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It's so depressing to learn the complicated history of public works like this. But better to know than to be ignorant.
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The kicker is ppl wonder why certain groups have not progressed economically. It’s very difficult when the gov’t is cutting off via segregation (&housing) educational and economic opportunities. This is true pretty much throughout the country.http://www.epi.org/publication/making-ferguson/ …
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I really wish there was more to this story. It ended just when it caught my attention.
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Read “The Power Broker” by Robert Caro Old book..fascinating . Read it years ago...About Robert Moses.
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Still happening on Rockaway with bottles from Hog Island -- which was washed away more than one hundred years ago...
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Thank god I know that she’s tall, slender, and athletic - I was about to stop reading
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Perhaps this beach cleaner would workhttps://twitter.com/techinsider/status/950724845683187713 …
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Also responsible for the horror that is the Cross Bronx expressway also ruining the neighborhoods
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“a scrotum hanging from the bottom of Brooklyn.”

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Joining Harry Crews's description of Florida as a penis hanging off the U.S.
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That’s pretty accurate

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The actual quote is great but I didn't have time to look it up.
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There is more then bottles in this mess. Artifacts, coins, long lost jewelry and more. A giant time capsule.
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Damn ...
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"...and the people, young and old: man and woman; straight and gay were sent walking to Oklahoma on the "Trail of Tears"...
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More details about Moses' project and the neighborhood would have been helpful.
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