Moses raised the city’s playground stock by half in a single year.

Evidence

And as soon as Moses had his hands on the title to these pieces of land, he filled them with workmen. By July, the eight War Memorial Playgrounds had been finished, by Labor Day, there were fifty-two others, including the Chrystie-Forsyth Street complex, which was really a park but which was dubbed “the finest playground in the United States”—and a city which in its entire history had managed to build 119 playgrounds had seen its stock of that item increased by 50 percent in a single year. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 1660

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off ch15’s ‘only beginning construction makes projects unstoppable’ and the speed theme of the whole first year. — connects to: Moses renovated essentially every structure and surface in the city’s parks in one year. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 1643

Broader Connections

• Moses renovated essentially every structure and surface in the city’s parks in one year. #corroborates (0.85) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 1643