Robert Caro on how Robert Moses infrastructure projects fueled discrimination 

Thank you Mr. Caro for writing The Power Broker, I couldn't put it down.

Haven't seen Robert Caro in a long while! Real old school NY author/journalist!

This book along with Richard Rothstein COLOR OF LAW will set American free, believe me!

We always learn when Mr. Caro writes or speaks.

MAKE A Overseas Highway LIKE FLORIDA has through the long island sound !!

That’s my man

I was hoping for more numbers regarding how Moses' powers and policies kept black people from buying in Long Island and how the numbers show today....

Would have been nice if this clip spent less time focusing on him praising Moses’ works and more on the critiques and staunch realities it created for poor folks and BIPOC communities, mass displacement and evictions, creating a massive wave of homeless and pushing public policy that would set precedent for discrimination against homeless folks and poor POCs for the following decades. Still has a lot of implications for today, you’ve got plenty of folks whose parents or grandparents were fucked over because of him in NYC still today.

I use the word socially engineer. a lot when it comes to Black peoples.

No more public policy!

Fascinating

Huh?

Anyone here for AP Research?

With a car, anyone could drive to the public Jones beaches. By 1970, anyone who wanted a car could and did buy a car, no matter their race. Problem eliminated without further government interference.

Oh! he was so angry for the blacks and Latinos! What a hero Rob Caro! What would the blacks do with out you?!

I know that he´s old, but he does not look to be in good shape. He´s looking exhausted. I like how much details he´s giving when he responds but sometimes it seems that he is having " a senior moment" 1:05. Hope he finish his last volume of the years of Lyndon Johnson.

I see Caro drawing a conclusion to a group and not to the reality of a city. It's well known that Robert Moses didn't like people. It's also well known that the Mayor was one of the most interfaith and inter-racially progressive mayors in the history of the city up to that point. Moses was building (with tax payer and toll money) his architectural dream. In addition he built the parkway for cars alone, he didn't want any commercial traffic tainting that vision. You also need to remember that mass transit was on the decline as is evident with the original Pen station being demolished and the near loss of Grand Central in the 1960's. Moses vision was always for the car, the middle class where just starting to buy into them and the majority of the middle class was white. A minority by the nature of it is rarer then the whole of the population. Mose's plan was also to serve NYC and it's burrows but not native long Islanders who every summer from Jones beach to the Hamptons is invaded by Jitneys buses in the HOV of the LIE to helicopters as locals have to bare with the traffic and the crowds. As a life long Islander I can tell you if commercial traffic was allowed on SSP it would be an even bigger disaster than it already is. Its the most deadly roadway in NY because of the sweeping curves and ability to go fast uninterrupted. Buses and trains especially in NY are taxpayer subsidized forms of transit and in the case of buses specifically for the low income poor, yet only I get to pay the bill for my car. Finally if Moses, truly was a racist (and we can judge him only after his death) without a vision I invite you to go to Jones beach any weekend in July at around noon to 1 o'clock see if he was successful in keeping diversity away from "his" beach.

Robert Caro makes many assumptions..and I do mean assumptions without citations. He basically relies on two people for almost all of his "facts" in this book. Robert Moses did not like people, especially poor people. That is not disputed. Moses is the most prolific builder in our nations history.