Rename Robert Moses Parkway DOWNSTATE instead!
CDL: I read this topic with interest-one thing I recall was the fight over the Manhattan expressways that Robert Moses wanted to tear Manhattan apart by building. Jane Jacobs was the leader in the fight to keep the Crosstown Expressway from possibly destroying Greenwich Village. On a PBS program I remember watching concerning NYC history about Robert Moses and his road building efforts I remember that she had the courage to stand up to the NYS power broker. I remember a filmed interview on the program-he came off as arrogant to those that did not agree with him as well as in other filmed interviews. I was surprised to see on my Upstate travels how many things were named after him-including the NY Power Authority Power Vista at Niagara Falls.
I feel that if any parkway is renamed it should be the Robert Moses Causeway in SW Suffolk County that goes across Great South Bay to Captree and Robert Moses State Park-where the Atlantic Ocean beaches are. I wonder how big the political fight and fallout if anyone was to suggest this! I really wonder if the average Western NYer realizes who Robert Moses was and what he was in NYS history-he certainly left his mark Downstate with the LI Parkway system and parks like Jones Beach State Park-if something is named for Jane Jacobs it should be something near NYC and not out in Western NY. Downstate is where it should be! LI MIKE
