“Jones Beach? There is only one beach: Dog Beach.”
I haven’t read his remarks, but there is truth in what he says. Robert Moses essentially invented the modern freeway – in Democrat-controlled New York City and State. He was a royalist, an undoubted racist and a big fan of making omelettes by breaking heads. He situated inner-city freeways bestride ghetto neighborhoods, thus to constrain them enduringly. The engineers who studied under him – from all over the world – did things the same way: Inner-city freeways typically form a barrier between disparate neighborhoods.
When Moses built the Southern State Parkway on Long Island, he deliberately made the headway under overpasses too low for buses – so ghetto denizens of every sort could not sully his precious Jones Beach.
Robert Moses is interesting in lots of ways – state and national parks and public housing are also his; it’s why they’re all eerily similar everywhere. But his most interesting characteristic, today, is his actual racism. There is nothing like this in the U.S. now – except for all the anti-white rhetoric. Robert Moses was an actual white-supremacist of influence – huge influence – but there is no one you can point to like that now.
Except, of course, for Transportation Secretary Alfred E. Neuman. But he’s a Marxist, so we will pretend not to notice when he uses highway funds to break heads.
In other news:
Redfin: March Was the Hottest Month in Housing History.
Housing Wire: Mortgage rates move down to 3.04%.
CNBC: Homebuilder confidence rises in April despite record high lumber prices.
Paul Bedard: Murders surge as police are defunded, up 64% in Minneapolis.
Tristan Justice: Los Angeles Neighborhood Deteriorates Into Street Slum As Violent Gangs Terrorize Residents.
Network In Vegas: Broken Monuments, Trashed Hotels, Garbage in the Streets – Welcome to Sisolak’s New Las Vegas.
Peter Navarro: Is Dr. Fauci the ‘Father of the Pandemic?’
City Journal: Here We Go Again: Biden’s infrastructure plan will fail for the same reasons that Obama’s did.
Tom Knighton: The Pushback Against Critical Race Theory.
