Moses explored inaccessible water lands using official leverage and a chauffeur

Evidence

Most of the water-supply properties were set far enough north of Merrick Road, behind blocks of private homes, to be invisible from it, but Merrick Road was the only way of getting close to them. Moses had never learned to drive, but he obtained from Smith the use of a car and chauffeur and a letter authorizing the guards at the properties to let him enter their gates. And on weekend mornings, as the line of cars from the city crept east along the road, Moses, leaving Babylon, had himself driven west. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 701

Categorization

• FICTION: Striking image: the man who never learned to drive, driven the opposite direction of weekend traffic to privatize secret woods - a character beat showing power through access.
• XREF: connects to: Moses built monumental stone bathhouses to serve the masses at public beaches — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 977