In reappraisal of Robert Moses, much praise: Three-part exhibit offers a less cynical blueprint of the master builder's mixed legacy.

Newsday (Melville, NY) | February 7, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: Justin Davidson

Feb. 7--Robert Moses was a man of many titles, but the epithet that stuck was "master builder," a curiously medieval-sounding phrase for a modern technocrat. From Jones Beach, his achievement looks majestic: He beautified a vast tract of coastal wilderness, preserved it from a plague of condos and turned it over to the people for the sole purpose of furthering their fun. From the fume-laced canyon bottom of the Cross-Bronx Expressway, he seems more monstrous: the man who cleaved the borough with a highway big enough to pulverize ...

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