Re: (rshsdepot) Moses parted The Bronx

[Seth Bramson <sbramson_@_bellsouth.net>]

Paul S. Luchter wrote:

>>>>Nahhh. In retrospect, the entire city was strangled [by Robert 
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>Moses], slashed,
>pillaged and raped by that SOB<<<
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>Not everywhere....they stopped him from mowing through the Village after 
>the war (WW II), he never got to build his blocks wide N-S highway in 
>Manhattan or his huge connector highways between the Midtown Tunnel and 
>the Hudson Tunnel (or the Lincoln, or maybe both)...
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>At least Manhattan maybe because of influence succeeded in stopping 
>him...I remember reading of another defeat in Brooklyn, I think 
>downtown...but I forget this one..
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>But he did destroy the Bronx. parts of Brooklyn, transit expansion, and 
>streetcars
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 >>>Paul is correct here.  Another Moses "plan" which was derailed was 
to end all--seriously--rail subway service and convert same to auto 
tunnels.  Remember, though, the SOB couldn't have done it without a just 
as big SOB who was being paid off by GM and the conspiracy in as big a 
way as Moses was, and that, of course, was the other SOB, LaGuardia. 
 (What you didn't know was that, though he capitalized on his very 
Italian sounding name, he was raised Jewish [his mother was] though he 
never bandied it about).  What really makes me ill is that these two 
bums were such corrupt scum--and they were.  All that "pro auto--anti 
rail" crap came from somewhere, and that somewhere was/were the payoffs 
from the automobile/bus/highway/petroleum/rubber (tire)/road builder 
conspiracy, spelled "GM."

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