Landmark park commissions passed with zero legislative debate

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Not that many people asked him, of course. There was little interest in the bills and when, in the last-minute adjournment rush, they came to the floor, there was not a word of debate about them. On April 10, 1924, on the last day of the session, Assembly and Senate passed them both by unanimous vote. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 788

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• SHARE: A New York state history buff would savor this detail that epochal park legislation passed unread in the session’s final rush.