It's Robert Moses week in New York, and it's all a bit overwhelming. In the audience-- the overflow audience-- at the Museum of the City of New York last night, I couldn't have been the only one uncomfortable with the simultaneous thrill of Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff's vision for the future of the city, thanks to a new age of master-building, butting up against the terror of Majora Carter's scathing, heart-wrenching plea for democratic, sustainable, non-racist city building. And there's Moses' legacy, as complex and contradictory as the city itself.
Setting aside the snazzy Plazes map, that's me at the end of the arrow.
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