Moses identified 3,500 acres of unused city-owned land near Manhattan

Evidence

Adding together the acreage of the various tracts of woods, Moses could hardly believe the figures. They totaled 3,500 acres. Three thousand five hundred acres just sitting there empty and unused. … And ideally situated. All five tracts were within thirty miles of Manhattan, within eleven miles of the city line. The woods between Valley Stream and Lynbrook, in fact, were only two miles from that line. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 707

Categorization

• XREF: The scale of this find — 3,500 acres, larger than Central Park — connects to the reader’s existing knowledge of Central Park as the reference point for New York parkland. — connects to: Moses transferred his vision of unused space from Manhattan to Long Island — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 700; 3,500 acres of guarded city watershed land had sat unused for decades; Moses created fifteen thousand acres of new New York land. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 42 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• 3,500 acres of guarded city watershed land had sat unused for decades #corroborates (0.95)
• Moses created fifteen thousand acres of new New York land. #expands (0.72) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 42
• New York City already owned thousands of undeveloped acres on Long Island #corroborates (0.72) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 706
• Moses turned New York garbage dumps and mud flats into hundreds of parks #expands (0.70) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 48