In this month’s installment of “Our Forgotten Borough,” we take a look at the state of transportation in the Bronx.

Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority ...

“A Man in Full,” the title of one of Tom Wolfe’s classic novels, could well be the subtitle of Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker,” his monumental biography of Robert Moses, the man whose vision and ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Was he a planning genius with an eye to future prosperity? Or was he a power-hungry bureaucrat whose short-sightedness robbed Staten Island of its rural charm? No matter how you ...

The Power Broker, Robert Caro’s book about New York City’s master builder, Robert Moses, turned 50 in 2024. Caro’s compelling tale of untrammeled, corrupted power wielded by one man over decades seems ...

The city’s millions of residents are crammed together, competing for space to live, play, work and rest. By Mihir Zaveri Tearing down a garage wall to renovate a park at the performing arts complex ...

Ask urbanists who’s responsible for New York’s twentieth-century trajectory, and most will tell you: Robert Moses. Since the publication of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker five decades ago, the ...

Crumbling highways. A housing shortage. Broken infrastructure. America is stuck. But the pendulum may be ready to swing. By Michael Kimmelman A pioneering road shows what highways were and what they ...