Comments on: Unbuilt Robert Moses Highway Maps

By: Learning about Moses

Learning about Moses — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:25:51 +0000

I have started reading about Robert Moses recently and find his work very interesting. My mother grew up on Long Island and mentioned a once proposed elevated highway through Central Park. I have yet to figure out the name of this highway, or if it even existed. Can you help clear this up for me?

By: jeremy machado

jeremy machado — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 04:39:29 +0000

Robert Moses was a very smart man but a “F&%king idiot at the same time!!!!

By: Jeff G.

Jeff G. — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:44:16 +0000

Robert Moses was once quoted as saying “I love humanity. I hate people.” I think that says it all. He was also a major factor in the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn.

By: vanshnookenraggen

vanshnookenraggen — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:42:41 +0000

Google.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:06:20 +0000

Hello,
where did you get the image of Moses?

By: Manhattan Expressways | friskyGeek

Manhattan Expressways | friskyGeek — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:43:37 +0000

[...] someone that has driven in Manhattan, I welcome the idea of a Manhattan Expressway. It literally takes 30 to 45 minutes to drive from one side of Manhattan to the other due to [...]

By: Virtuelle Bauwut « T-City Begleitforschung

Virtuelle Bauwut « T-City Begleitforschung — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:04:19 +0000

[...] anderem Planungen Robert Moses‘ in New York, die nie realisiert worden sind. Schaut man sich die Karten an, versteht man auch warum die Planungen auf Protest bei der New Yorker Bevölkerung [...]

By: Hacking Robert Moses

Hacking Robert Moses — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:41:57 +0000

[...] to document it all. Or so we’d like to think that’s the story behind Vanshnookenraggen brilliant mock-ups of the Lower Manhattan Expressway (above) and Mid-Manhattan Expressway in Google Maps. [...]

By: vanshnookenraggen

vanshnookenraggen — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:16:10 +0000

So would I and that’s why I’m working on it.

By: Braulio

Braulio — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:15:49 +0000

I’d love to see a whole series of these things for other urban plans in U.S. cities that were never realized (like the inner beltway in D.C., for example).

By: josh

josh — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:14:36 +0000

Could you share a bit more information about how you created these images? Thanks.

By: vanshnookenraggen

vanshnookenraggen — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:46:22 +0000

Totally working on it.

By: martin

martin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:37:10 +0000

Cool and useful. How about one for Brooklyn?

By: vanshnookenraggen

vanshnookenraggen — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:30:04 +0000

No this is incorrect. Both parks were there long before any planned expressways and neither were to be used as ROW.

By: Lefty

Lefty — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:34:20 +0000

From what I understand, both the Sara Roosevelt park and the St. Gabriels park were planned as right of way for the expressways. I believe St. Gabriels was even bought. Your map has the highways running alongside the parks.