Local History-New York City
HIST 701-Blogging Local History (Option 2) I lived in New York City from 1997 until 2004 when I moved just across the Hudson River to Teaneck New Jersey. I still feel connected to the five boroughs of New York City. Five days a week, I drive from New Jerse y through New York City on my way to work as a teacher. In summer, I get up before dawn & drive out to the ocean to swim. All of these travels are made possible by Robert Moses. One cannot live in any of New York City’s five boroughs without feeling Robert Moses’s “hand”. As the urban p lanner most responsible for the layout of New York City's parks & roadways , the roads I drive on are the creations of Robert Moses . Moses held many jobs inside both the New York City government & New York State government, simultaneously . How you may ask was that possible? Moses wrote the laws that governed who could control what power in both the City & the State at a time when the rules were murky at best. Moses went...