Following Moses New York style

All American Boys I want to get off topic- we will come back to our consideration of Corporate America and interaction with nations and human history… But we have encountered a succession of most remarkable people- An American born brilliant German engineer producing a workable computer able to consider a multitude of variables for extremely large groups of things being numbered- people… And in our last post we saw at the end of the 19th Century coming into the 20th Century these dynamic men who were utterly competitive and focused on winning even if the loss would be ( Well we are starting to move towards to advent of Jewish Holocaust….) But as a balance I want to look at an entirely different sort of person- No less dynamic; No less a product of USA; but with a different approach and area of operation. And I’ve mentioned Robert Moses in a previous post ‘Hampton- Her reputation?’; but as a man literally out of New York in the 20th Century shaping the development of that Great City-Style of developments in USA- Seen right here in Auckland New Zealand as we mirrored the things Moses did- following Moses! Well I would feel remiss if I did not share with you this man as we consider or try to uncover what was happening in the very early years of the 20th century flowing on into the 1920s, 30s, and 40s as most remarkable New Yorkers displayed great talent: Great determination: and Great Success- Literally changing human culture! ‘There is no more remarkable person in the annuals of New York than that of the formidable Robert Moses who, for the best part of half a century, until he was out maneuvered by Nelson Rockefeller, dominated many of the decisions which settled the civic future. He was a public servant who accumulated positions of command the way some people collect small town committee memberships; being simultaneously the city Parks Commissioner, The City Planning Commissioner, the City construction Co-ordinator, the Chairman of slum Clearance Committee, and chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnels Authority while also sitting on a dozen boards and commissions of New York s=sate including the State Power Authority of which he was the chairman. In time there was little in the running of the metropolis and the state that could not be accomplished without his say-so. And a great deal of it’s physical arrangement today is a s a result of his outlook and his exercise of power…Early in life Moses had a sense of vocation, which was demonstrated after he left Yale and had gone to Oxford (England) in 1909. There he was the first American to become President of the Oxford Union….he acquired a supreme contempt of the educated British elite with whom he was hobnobbing … after proceeding to Berlin for a quick tutorial in political science. Moses returned home and entered the civil service of New York… His first big break was in 1923 … given the job of; President of Long island State Park Commission.. When he started work, rural Long Island was either farmland or the private estate of the extremely rich, with scarcely a beach or inland open space that might be enjoyed by the citizens of Brooklyn or other parts of the metropolis… within four years of assuming his post, Robert Moses had engineered fourteen separate parks amounting to nearly 10,000 acres…With the solitary exception of East River Drive: all those clover leaves and flyovers and underpasses and express ways…. Major Deegan Expressway, the Van Wyck, the Brooklyn-Queens, Staten Island and the others 627 miles of roadways in all… also seven big bridges.. and typical was the way he put the Cross Bronx Express way through…’ p287-301 Imperial City 1988.