Robert Moses

Adulado durante mucho tiempo, Robert Moses supo sacar provecho del dinero público y privado para modernizar la ciudad en profundidad. Emprendió proyectos faraónicos de vías urbanas que partieron Manhattan en dos y terminaron por enfrentarlo a una nueva sensibilidad. Criticado por su brutalidad durante los años de crisis, fue una mujer, Jane Jacobs, quien encarnó la resistencia plantándole cara.

With its unspoiled, tranquil shorelines, Fire Island has been an oasis for vacationers for more than 150 years. To the polarizing "master builder" Robert Moses, its coastline was ripe for the construction of an Ocean Parkway extension. Standing up to those ambitions were the seventeen individualistic communities of Fire Island, unified in their love for their sun-washed sandy beaches. To maintain a traditional way of life with limited access to motor vehicles, the community began the fight for federal protection through the creation of the Fire Island National Seashore. Author Christopher Verga presents this triumphant struggle against the Goliath of twentieth-century New York development.