Landowners donated right-of-way so their remaining property rose in value

Evidence

Playing on the greed of real estate developers who owned land in the parkway’s path, Moses persuaded them to donate right-of-way so that the rest of their property could be opened to development. Suddenly awakened to the fact that the New York City watershed property could be used as right-of-way, Hewitt and Hutchinson realized with a shock that the land for the Southern State was almost all in Moses’ hands—all the way out to that magic point where it would trigger the start of work on the Northern State. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 931

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Land surveyors profited personally from privatizing commons — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 39; Eminent domain threats once forced wealthy landowners to donate parkway land — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 802

Broader Connections

• Land surveyors profited personally from privatizing commons #expands (0.82) — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 39