Robert Moses: Long Island's Master Builder 

As a child, I was told that the bridges were built low in order to keep out busses (and people of color) from the city. In fact, I thought it was common knowledge. The story was that Robert Moses was a racist, hence the low bridges. I'm not positive of this rumor. Although the narrator mentioned that Moses didn't want another Coney Island. What that means, I'm not sure. In any event, he did invent the modern day highway system as a way to get to these parks. I am not aware of any other place where a highway or freeway is called a parkway. The highway system was born here on Long Island. He did shape the Metro NY and Long Island as we all know it today. It is beautiful

Yeah 4 lanes each way you dumbass

How else would you get from the mainland to LI? There are ample bridges across it.

Thanks!

What wasn't he part of!???

He has his own pkwy

He did learn though

I thought the same thing. He is the inventor of the modern Highway system.

E Wood was a racist?

I finished reading Power Broker that provides a great insight into his work. What other books do you suggest to anyone interested in learning more about Robert Moses and his work

I'm a filmmaker trying to get a Long Island history project going-could possibly use someone like you.

"Oversound."

And his name was "Moses"! How crazy!

He wanted to keep blacks out of long island so he built the highway 🛣 inaccessible to city buses

That's what I leaned as a child and young adult. @@negroscolded3769

Are you lobotomized?

@@indetermite Shaddup

Follow your own advice.@@tobygoodguy4032

@Joe Curry yeah I am a civil engineer and built public projects library schools.. I find it hard to believe that you did. The greater good outweigh the individual .. Moses built public parks recreation slum clearance projects for the inner city urban poor ...

mitzvah golem slum clearance? More like gentrification and displacement of poor black people

@@javin70 Yes, what was left after that "clearance" became ghettos.

I think that was the point pal

Nonsense. Trains a buses carried city residents to all L.I. Beaches from day one. Stop spreading lies.

No. Not to Tobay, Gilgo, Oak Beach, Robert Moses State Park and especially Fire Island communities and beaches. They were all Long Island beaches and still are. Tobay means "Town of Oyster Bay"@@carolpetersen635

Old post, but we'll said.

Kew Gardens Station please see documentation for Miller's claim re: Ammann. Thanks for the praise.

Queensdude I stand corrected. Awesome video.

Are you kidding? You can't do a major project in NYC WITHOUT the mob!

He was part of government therefore he is the mob😉😂jk but seriously like has already been said nothing in NYC gets built without the mob, especially during the active period of Moses.

BLM. That's who!

Delusional take

Try telling that load of bullshit to the people and/or families whose lives had been displaced by Robert Moses.

Joe Curry Robert Moses was the guy who invented the NYC highways, and it traveled billions of vehicles each day. I saw it on the news about BQE’s future about putting a tunnel underneath like Boston’s Big Dig and Seattle’s SR 99 tunnel that replaced the Alaskan Way Viaduct last year. The viaduct in the BQE next to the Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Brooklyn Promenade on top is starting to deteriorate overtime due to its age. I hope the DOT needs a wake up call. It’s going to be the worst than the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Fix the viaduct on both the BQE and the Gowanus Expressway, and it should be a lot better. This highway used to have 6 lanes with 3 lanes in each direction, why not add a 4th lane on the Gowanus and it will be 8 lanes like the one in Florida which is the I-95 and it’s going to be a super highway.

The reason was that Moses was a Republican … smh

Oh my goodness, no. What a dreadful concept this plan was. Most people would never have wanted something to cut Manhattan in two.

Spoken like a person whose family didnt lose anything as a result of his actions....good for u....fuck your hero though

While I will give Robert Moses credit for transforming what was essentially a 19th century City and adapted it for 20th century use, your hero, did some vile, racist shit to people. He was an arrogant, power mad tyrant, who had no moral qualms about riding roughshod over people who had the LEAST power in New York City. Your hero, was responsible for the urban blight and decay that the Bronx became infamous for.

Malcolm Lewis don’t waste your breath sir. You can’t change someone’s mind who has never been negatively affected by this monster racist.

Lol ignorant how? Don't like too hear the truth huh?

Please don’t be ridiculous! Buses and trains brought New York City residents no matter what their race or ethnicity out to the beaches! They used sunrise highway. And they ran buses from the train station and the bus depot’s to Jones Beach. Stop lying and educate yourself.

Robert Moses was not for poor people, he designed his parkways to have low bridges so that buses (which poor people took) could not reach the beaches to which his parkways brought you. You needed a car to go to his creations. Poor people, of all color, were essentially barred from entry

In the 1940's and 50's when Levittown was being built they didn't allow black people to buy houses in Levittown. The people who designed Levittown houses were racist and the houses were poorly designed. I live in Levittown and trust me it is a bad neighborhood.

@Kilo Byte are you under the impression that there was one back then?

@Kilo Byte Well my teacher lied to me then :/

Buses and trains from New York City, Brooklyn, and queens ran to the Long Island beaches from day one! Every New Yorker was welcome there without restriction. That is easily verified. If Robert Moses had not created state parks Like Jones beach, the new York sure would be like Malibu in California, with mansions and used only by the rich and the famous. Get a grip!

See if you can survive without using a single road, bridge, park, or tunnel that Moses built. You couldn’t leave your house.

Nonsense. Educate yourself. State owned lands, marshland etc. were used.

@@carolpetersen635 he didn't own Penn station