Moses simultaneously headed seven separate park and road agencies

Evidence

There were now seven separate governmental agencies concerned with parks and major roads in the New York metropolitan area. They were the Long Island State Park Commission, the New York State Council of Parks, the Jones Beach State Park Authority, the Bethpage State Park Authority, the New York City Park Department, the Triborough Bridge Authority and the Marine Parkway Authority. Robert Moses was in charge of all of them. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 1605

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete scale of the consolidation that future chapters (parks wars, Triborough) depend on; also extends ch15’s ‘unified power’ trajectory. — connects to: A public authority’s independent money lets one man dictate city policy — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 2843; Moses’ agencies outspent New York’s entire elected government. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 3034; Moses hid a third city job inside innocuous statutory language — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 1602
• SEED: A structural power-portfolio anecdote: one person holding seven interlocking agency seats with no single electorate over him — material for an essay on unaccountable administrative consolidation.