1888-1981
Urban Planner and Administrator

Master Builder.

Early Years.

Administrative Reform.

Parks.

For Cars and Recreation.

Highways.

Political Candidate.

After his defeat as Republican candidate for governor of New York in 1934, Moses declined several bids to run as the Republican candidate for mayor of New York City in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Controversial because of his autocratic style of management, Moses retired from the last of his important positions, chairman of the consolidated Triborough Bridge and New York City Tunnel Authority, in 1968. He had held the post since 1946 and continued even after retirement to work as a planning consultant.

Sources:

Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (New York: Knopf, 1974);

Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar, "Urban Parks," in Encyclopedia of American Social History, 3 volumes, edited by Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter T. Williams (New...