Re: (rshsdepot) Moses parted The Bronx

["Steven Delibert" <stevdel_@_prodigy.net>]

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From: Paul S. Luchter <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
> 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..

One rich, well-connected lady in Brooklyn did stop him -- Gladys Underwood
James, thank-you-very-much, was Underwood Typewriter on her mother's side,
Singer Sewing Machine on her father's side, lived in the spectacular Lowe
mansion at 3 Pierrepont Place, at the corner of Montague St. and Columbia
Heights, overlooking the harbor; when Brooklyn Heights property values went
down in the 30's, Mrs. J. bought up all available row houses on Columbia
Heights overlooking the harbor to prevent apartment-lot assemblers from
getting them; when Moses was building the BQE up the waterfront, he wanted
to come straight up Hicks St. and Columbia Heights, which would have wrecked
Brooklyn Heights, but Mrs. J had the clout and finesse to stop him, make him
run the double-decked-highway-plus-pedestrian Promenade around the edge of
the Heights, which is one of the city's  ornaments today.   After she died
and her ne'er-do-well son turned the mansion into rental apartments, I got
to live there for 10 years . . .

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