Over a hundred forty million dollars bought an uncredited park

Evidence

Public monies spent under Robert Moses’ direction during preparations for the 1939-40 World’s Fair to make the Flushing Meadows a feasible park site came to 58,842,000. For the 1964-65 World's Fair, Robert Moses' Fair Corporation spent on permanent park improvements 22,256,000. Robert Moses’ Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority spent on permanent park improvements 6,576,000. The City of New York spent 31,000,000. The State of New York spent at least 12,000,000 (and probably far more). The federal government spent 12,000,000. The public monies spent during this Fair on permanent improvements to make Flushing Meadows a park thus came to a total of at least 83,832,000. For the two Fairs, the total was at least 142,674,000. And no one even suggested it be named after him. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 4526

Categorization

• XREF: The bitter payoff of ch4422-4423’s ‘Robert Moses Park’ dream — the iron-y that the dream kept him indifferent to the Fair itself and the name never came. Builds on the whole ch47 arc.