Moses was a complicated man. A brilliant planner and builder, responsible for Jones Beach,numerous state parks, and virtually every bridge and major highway in NYC and Long Island and the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel. He was also a self hating Jew, a racist who hated mass transit and working class people. He respected only power and money. The beautiful stone overpasses on his LI parkways were built with a low overhead to prevent.t busses with poor people from the city from getting to his parks. The BAD in Brooklyn Heights was Robles decked at great cost and the Northern State parkway twists and curves to minimize impact on the estates that existed back then. On the other hand, he destroyed a vibrant Jewish and Italian Bronx community when he destroyed thousands of homes when he built the Cross Bronx expressway.
Robert Caro’s book the Power Broker is the definitive book on Moses