Matt K quoted The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and …
Robert Moses had always displayed a genius for adorning his creations with little details that made them fit in with their setting, that made the people who used them feel at home in them. There was a little detail on the playhouse-comfort station in the Harlem section of Riverside Park that is found nowhere else in the park. The wrought-iron trellises of the park's other playhouses and comfort stations are decorated with designs like curling waves. The wrought-iron trellises of the Harlem playhouse-comfort station are decorated with monkeys.
— The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro (Page 560)
Holy shit. Robert Caro gives us pages detailing the sweeping wonder of the west side improvements, shows us all the majesty Moses was capable of. Then he very carefully points out the boundaries of that wonder. The parks NOT built and who they weren’t built for. Where the money was spent and where it was saved. And then this is just extra nasty. It takes it from neglect to malice.