@SteampunkBanana wrote:
Now. You forgot the word now. Because when Jones Beach was built it most assuredly did, given the planned design to make the overpasses to Jones Beach just slightly too short for buses to go there. So the poor had to take cars to get there.
As for the bridges, Moses created the idea that toll bridges would not pay for themselves but that they woudl pay for all of his other projects. So here we are today with $14 tolls to enter New York that go to pay for rebuilding the WTC site. And if it was up to him the Brooklyn-Battery would have been another bridge instead of the uncluttered waterfront approach. He kicked the Dodgers out of Brooklyn, where a stadium (for basketball) would eventually be built anyway,
He was against Shakespeare in the Park. He was for an expressway through the Village. He destroyed a playground to create a parking lot for Tavern on the Green. His "tear it down" philosophy is directly responsible for Penn Station's demise to create the useless monstrosity we have now. He was against subways and for roadways, and if that's not beneficial to rich white folk, I don't know what is. Any good he did was accidental and there's a reason nobody has consolidated power like that since.