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Moses vs. Jacobs: The Book Sales
After The Death and Life of Great American Cities came out in 1961, Robert Moses returned the copy he had received to its publisher, with instructions to sell the "libelous" monograph to somebody else....
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Bloomberg on the Doctoroff Legacy
A notably unhappy Michael Bloomberg just announced that Dan Doctoroff is leaving City Hall, saying, “Dan brought muscle to economic development. Bloomberg also said that “unlike Robert Moses, Dan did...
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Doctoroff on Robert Moses Comparisons: ‘Always a Little Odd’
Another excerpt from The Observer‘s interview last winter with Daniel Doctoroff. Here’s how he feels about all those comparisons of him to the late Robert Moses, the original New Yorker who Got Things...
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The West Side Rail Yards and the Ghost of Robert Moses
By almost any measure, Jerry and Rob Speyer’s planned development of the West Side rail yards is on a grand scale. Its space (26 acres), price tag (perhaps $12 billion to $13 billion, based on the cost...
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Jane Jacobs’ Frankensteins
When Jane Jacobs died in 2006, the Silverleaf Tavern on Park Avenue named a drink in her honor. A Jane Jacobs, which costs $14, consists of Hendrick’s gin, elderflower syrup, orange bitters and...
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The Highway That (Almost) Ate New York [SLIDESHOW]
Last week was a very bad one for mass transit, a reminder that cars still rule the world, even in New York City. But it could have been a lot worse. Consider what might have happened if Robert Moses...
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Honk If You Love the Midtown Tunnel
Do you hear that? It’s the sound of a thousand commuters throwing their heads on their horns in exasperation at the mouth of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. Not only will they spend precious minutes of...
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A Musical About Moses! (No, Not the Torah Broker)
If they can make a musical about Atlantic Yards, why not one about Robert Caro’s mammoth book The Power Broker? The Times brought none other than Caro himself to a rehearsal for the new musical about...
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The Popcorn Broker! Oliver Stone Shooting Robert Moses Movie for HBO
Not since David Lynch (tried) to adapt Dune for the screen has The Observer had such conflicted feelings about a movie: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Oliver Stone will adapt The Power Broker,...
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Janette Sadik-Khan Is O.K. In Robert Caro's Book
The power biker. (Getty) The redesign of 34th Street has come in for its fair—or unfair, depending on perspective—share of criticism in the lead up to today’s launch of Select Bus Service on the...
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Brooklyn Heights Hated the Promenade Almost as Much at the B.Q.E
Not in my backyard? Why not! (Ochinko/<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ochinko/5594321348/">Flickr</a>) Oh, the ironies of the rich. When Robert Moses proposed a plan for the...
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Leading His Charge
Since 1986, Steven Spinola has served as president of the Real Estate Board of New York, the powerful lobbying arm that he has captained through two recessions, property tax reductions and a series of...
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Bloomberg Muses On The Difference Between Democracy And Communism
Mayor Bloomberg (Photo: Getty) A press conference this morning about an Economist Intelligence Unit research report that ranked New York as the world’s most competitive city afforded Mayor Michael...
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Governor Cuomo Invokes Robert Moses as a Role Model
Just build it. (AP) Last year, The Observer lamented an infrastructural ambivalence on the part of governors on both sides of the Hudson, and wondered if the great states of New York and New Jersey had...
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City on the Edge: The Problems, Policies, Politics and People of NYCHA
Some 404,000 New Yorkers depend on the troubled New York City Housing Authority's developments for shelter—can Bill de Blasio and Shola Olatoye help them?
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