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Rockefeller, to Mr. Moses' surprise, accepted his resignation, which had been offered merely in protest over a disagreement. Washington, The plan was scrapped, and the underdog won. Jane Jacobs vs. Robert Moses - SFGATE To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. He was the nation's first great builder of highways, but ironically he never learned to As depicted by Robert Caro in his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1974 biography The Power Broker, Moses was a racist, antisemite, and bully who combined vast power over New York City's built. the nation, first as a fighter for parks and open space and later as a name that had come to symbolize the sweeping, total approach to urban renewal that he favored. ''Those who can, build,'' Mr. Moses once said. Father George Thomas "Thomas" Collins. in his parks. Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA. achievements ''seem little short of miraculous.''. and in a small house in Gilgo Beach, L.I., which he had obtained years before when he first began to lay out the park and parkway system of Long Island. and it continued long after many of them had passed from public view. But a recent show with Skrillex, Four Tet, and Fred again.. felt like a big coming together. The motivation that was so inspirational in the nineteen-twenties is exactly the same motivation that was so destructive in the nineteen-fifties, Hare said. 1650 in Surry Co., VA (Source: LDS.). A memorial service is tentatively planned for Friday but no definite arrangements had been made yesterdayNewsday (Suffolk Edition) Melville, New York12 Sep 1984, Wed Page 35, Thank you for fulfilling this photo request.