Central Park’s symbolic weight made it the one place Moses could not invade unnoticed

Evidence

But the primary difference in this protest had nothing to do with philosophy or governmental roles; it was due to the simple physical fact of the parking lot’s location: the park in which it was located was Central Park. … Central Park was something very special to New York. It was special because it sat, spacious and green and beautiful, at the very heart of the concrete city, because more New Yorkers used it than any other park, because it was practically the back yard for an astoundingly high proportion of the city’s wealthiest and most influential individuals, because for most of these users—and for hundreds of thousands of others, inhabitants of the otherwise all but greenless center of the most densely inhabited island in the world—it was their only park. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 4059

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Wealthy, well-connected neighborhoods could fight Moses where poor ones could not — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 4056; Moses turned parks, symbols of serenity, into weapons of power — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 1139; Moses’ park-defender image survived only through press secrecy — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 4061

Broader Connections

• Moses turned parks, symbols of serenity, into weapons of power #expands (0.90) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 1139
• Moses’ park-defender image survived only through press secrecy #exemplifies (0.80) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 4061