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 week, ...

The persistent shortage of lifeguards at city beaches and pools continues to pose danger to the New Yorkers of modest means desperate for ways to stay cool amidst grueling heat waves. The most obvious ...

Robert Moses in his office in 1978. The lesson of Moses’ career has been the unchecked power accumulated without ever serving in elective office. (Woodfin Camp & Associates/Library of Congress) The ...

New Yorkers love to hate Robert Moses, the city’s “master builder” from the 1930s to the 1960s. But while Moses remains anathema to your typical Community Board attendee, in recent years the hatred ...

Power broker Robert Moses is seen as a villain now, but he transformed the urban landscape, sometimes for good. The play "Straight Line Crazy" starring Ralph Fiennes explores his legacy. Robert Moses ...

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 ...

Mr. Barkan, a novelist, is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. When I was 22 and working at a local newspaper in Queens, I opened up “The Power Broker” for the first time. I sat in ...

“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 Pharaoh-like ...

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 ...

It’s been 50 years since the publication of The Power Broker, Robert Caro’s magisterial biography of New York City master builder Robert Moses. Indeed, The Power Broker is a spellbinding biography ...

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