Robert Moses was born on December 18, 1888 New Haven, Conn, U.S and died on July 29, 1981 in West Islip, N.Y. He was a state and municipal officer whose career in public works planning resulted in a virtual transformation of New York City’s landscape. Some of his accomplishments include 35 highways, 12 bridges, numerous parks, Lincoln Center for the performing arts, Shea Stadium, many housing projects, two hydroelectric dams and the 1964 New York World’s Fair. His projects greatly influenced large scale planning in other cities in the United States. He was also contributory in bringing the UN to Manhattans East River waterfront. Moses studied political science at Yale, Oxford and Columbia universities. His long career of public service began in 1913 for the state and …show more content…
A good example of this includes because of his work in the bureau of municipal research lead to his appointment as chief of staff of New York state reconstruction by Gov. Alfred E. Smith. Such as the Triborough Bridge, Queens Midtown Tunnel, Bronx Whitestone Bridge, the Henry Hudson Bridge, the Brooklyn battery tunnel, the Throg’s Neck Bridge, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. It can be seen how Moses is often compared to Barron Haussmann of The Second Empire Paris. However in the "The Power Broker" for starting large projects well beyond funding approved by the New York State legislature with the knowledge they would eventually pay for the rest to avoid looking like they didn't review the project properly and for using political power to benefit cronies including a case where he secretly shifted the Northern State Parkway large distances to avoid impinging on the estates of the rich, while telling owners of the family farms who lost land (and sometimes their livelihood) that it was based on "engineering