Moses’s personal love of Long Island’s South Shore motivated his later park building

Evidence

But during the summer of 1922, when Bob Moses went home, he went to Long Island. Invited to weekends in Babylon by friends during 1921, he and Mary had fallen in love “with the town, with the bay, with the whole South Shore.” In 1922, they rented a bungalow of their own for the summer. So when the discussions on parks ended, he would hurry to the Long Island Rail Road station and catch a train on the South Shore line. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 696

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• XREF: Connects to how personal place-love shaped urban design, as in Jane Jacobs on Greenwich Village or the tree article’s idea of terrain shaping a life’s work. — connects to: Moses explored Long Island’s baylands so obsessively he regularly stranded himself on sandbars — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 712; Moses personally knew Jones Beach’s wild solitude years before developing it — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 716; Moses chose the Gold Coast route to showcase the estates he relished passing — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 724 (+2 more)