Robert Moses, who dreamed up parkways that transformed Long Island and carved six reviled neighborhood-razing lanes of pavement through the South Bronx, arrives in a new play as a sort of misanthropic ...

Robert Moses with a model of his proposed Battery Bridge, which set off one of the city's first conservation battles. Credit: C.M. Stieglitz, Wikipedia CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism ...

Robert Moses has an almost demonic status in the lore of American cities. As depicted by Robert Caro in his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1974 biography The Power Broker, Moses was a racist, antisemite, and ...

“I FINISHED THE POWER BROKER” proclaims a coffee mug celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of author Robert Caro’s epic exposé of the 40-year reign of Robert Moses, the Pharaoh-like ...

Robert Moses was probably the single most influential person in the creation of New York in the 20th century. And if his name to modern ears means little more than a causeway or a state park, his ...

Concrete Kingpin: Urban planner Robert Moses, pictured here, was immortalized in Robert Caro's The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974). Credit: AP Photo/Hans Von Nolde It’s ...

The pairing of Robert Moses and David Hare would seem like a match made in heaven. The latter, a playwright and screenwriter who was knighted in 1998, has addressed historical figures ranging from ...

Tearing down a garage wall to renovate a park at the performing arts complex may help heal a civic wound and transform a neighborhood. By Michael Kimmelman The Davis Center at the Harlem Meer restores ...