Repetitive commuting made Moses notice undeveloped woods between Long Island villages

Evidence

The trips from and to the city took over an hour—forty-five years later, Moses could still reel off without effort the names of the stops as the conductors had chanted them: “Valley Stream, Lynbrook, Oceanside, Rockville Centre, Freeport, Merrick, Amityville, Lindenhurst and Babylon”—and the train was hot. Moses would try to bury himself in work, but every so often he would look up and glance out the window. And after a while he began to notice that, while most of the route was filled with one-family homes, there were, between some of the villages, thick leafy bands of woods and, gleaming brightly through the trees, the blue water of ponds and streams. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 697

Categorization

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Broader Connections

• Moses transferred his vision of unused space from Manhattan to Long Island #expands (0.82) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 700