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After a motor vehicle crash Sunday evening, Suffolk County police shut down Union Boulevard between Pat Drive and Gladstone Avenue in West Islip beginning at 6:45 p.m. The crash site is at the Robert ...
A pair of armed robbers remain at large after a brazen heist. The two suspects made off with thousands of dollars from an ...
A driver was killed in a high-speed, single-vehicle crash on Long Island. The incident happened in West Islip, on Union ...
The villainous Power Broker's identity is revealed in Marvel's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, raising big questions about ...
If you don't know who Robert Moses was, this picture of a scowling giant straddling New York City's vast sprawl will give you a hint. Actor Ralph Fiennes stars in a play about Moses opening this ...
Ask urbanists who’s responsible for New York’s twentieth-century trajectory, and most will tell you: Robert Moses. Since the publication of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker five decades ago, the ...
“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 ...
The Power Broker, Robert Caro’s book about New York City’s master builder, Robert Moses, turned 50 in 2024. Caro’s compelling tale of untrammeled, corrupted power wielded by one man over decades seems ...
Caro’s seminal 1974 biography of Robert Moses, the parks commissioner who transformed the city through public works projects. Mr. Moses oversaw an expansion of Riverside Park in the 1930s.
But interviewing him about Lyndon Johnson and about Robert Moses — the two men he's been writing about since 1967 — is like journeying into a time machine. This month marks the 50th ...
Those in literary and political circles have long been known to place the 1,200-page biography of New York’s controversial city planner Robert Moses on their coffee tables and bookshelves for ...
Caro’s book on Robert Moses, a city planner who reshaped New York, is also a reflection on “the dangers of unchecked power,” and remains more resonant and relevant than ever. By Alexandra ...