Moses displaced 250,000 New Yorkers to build his highways

Evidence

To build his highways, Moses threw out of their homes 250,000 persons—more people than lived in Albany or Chattanooga, or in Spokane, Tacoma, Duluth, Akron, Baton Rouge, Mobile, Nashville or Sacramento. He tore out the hearts of a score of neighborhoods, communities the size of small cities themselves, communities that had been lively, friendly places to live, the vital parts of the city that made New York a home to its people. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 100

Categorization

• SEED: The quantification converts a vague civic grievance into a citable figure; good raw material for an infrastructure-and-displacement essay comparing highway programs.
• XREF: connects to: Moses’ highways displaced 250,000 people and destroyed whole neighborhoods.; Moses displaced over 170,000 New Yorkers from their homes in seven years. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 3985; Robert Moses justified mass displacement of residents as necessary for urban renewal — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 113

Broader Connections

• Moses’ highways displaced 250,000 people and destroyed whole neighborhoods. #corroborates (1.00)
• Moses displaced over 170,000 New Yorkers from their homes in seven years. #qualifies (0.85) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 3985
• Robert Moses justified mass displacement of residents as necessary for urban renewal #responds-to (0.70) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 113