Modern City · event 7 of 15

1934

Robert Moses takes control. Appointed parks commissioner under Fiorello La Guardia, Moses accumulates authority over parks, bridges, highways and housing across four decades without ever holding elected office, and reshapes the city — clearing whole neighbourhoods in the process.

The Modern City era

  1. 27 October 1904
  2. 25 March 1911
  3. 1916
  4. 1920
  5. 23 October 1929
  6. 1 May 1931
  7. 1934
  8. 28 June 1969
  9. 1969
  10. 4 April 1973
  11. 30 October 1975
  12. 11 September 2001
  13. 29 October 2012
  14. 1 January 2017
  15. 1 March 2020

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