A distinguished panel of transportation experts will examine Robert Moses’s legacy of roads, bridges, tunnels and highways in the context of today’s transportation and transit agenda, stressing strategies for addressing the city’s current traffic problems and future demand for expanded and improved mass transit. Panelists will include Richard Ravitch, former chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation […]

A panel discussion moderated by Kenneth T. Jackson and featuring the authors of three papers: Jameson W. Doig, The Port Authority’s Austin Tobin: How to Outmaneuver and Defeat Robert Moses Lizabeth Cohen, Edward J. Logue and the Politics of Urban Redevelopment in Postwar America Duane Tananbaum, Allies and Adversaries: Herbert Lehman and Robert Moses

A panel discussion moderated by Lizabeth Cohen and featuring the authors of four papers: Henry D. Fetter, Revising the Revisionists: Public Subsidyand Dodger Stadium in Brooklyn David Michalski, Robert Moses Meets the Mighty Niagara: Aesthetic Collisions at Empire’s Edge Robert Fishman, Revolt of the Urbs: 5th Avenue Opposition David A. Johnson, Robert Moses and the […]

A panel discussion moderated by Tom Finkelpearl, director of the Queens Museum of Art, featuring the authors of four papers: Blagovesta Momchedikova, The Panorama of the City of New York: Robert Moses’ Gigantic Visions of the City as Reflected in the Miniature Metropolis in the Museum Marta Gutman, The Place of Play: Robert Moses and […]

A panel discussion moderated by Susan Henshaw Jones, director of the Museum of the City of New York, and featuring Jameson W. Doig, Robert Fishman, Kenneth T. Jackson, Lynne Sagalyn and Hilary Ballon.

A panel discussion moderated by Owen Gutfreund and featuring the authors of four papers: David Foxe, Bridges, Structural Design, and Technological Optimism Hilary Kitasei, The Collapse of the Parkway Ideal: Preservation Challenges in the 21st Century Ray Bromley, Revisiting Caro’s One Mile: The Cross-Bronx Expressway Jeffrey Kroessler, Beyond the Bridge: Robert Moses and Staten Island