Moses renovated essentially every structure and surface in the city’s parks in one year.

Evidence

Every structure in every park in the city had been repainted. Every tennis court had been resurfaced. Every lawn had been reseeded. Eight antiquated golf courses had been reshaped, eleven miles of bridle paths rebuilt, thirty-eight miles of walks repaved, 145 comfort stations renovated, 284 statues refurbished, 678 drinking fountains repaired, 7,000 wastepaper baskets replaced, 22,500 benches reslatted, 7,000 dead trees removed, 11,000 new ones planted in their place and 62,000 others pruned, eighty-six miles of fencing, most of it unnecessary, torn down and nineteen miles of new fencing installed in its place. Every playground in the city had been resurfaced, not with cinders but with a new type of asphalt that Moses’ engineers assured him would prevent skinned knees, and every playground had been re-equipped with jungle gyms, slides and sandboxes for children and benches for their mothers. And around each playground had been planted trees for shade. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 1643

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Moses raised the city’s playground stock by half in a single year. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 1660; Moses built public works at a time no other city could — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 57

Broader Connections

• Moses built public works at a time no other city could #exemplifies (0.78) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 57