Two allies joining a fiscal watchdog could have blocked Moses’ parkway

Evidence

McGoldrick could cast only three of the sixteen votes on the Board of Estimate. The next day, however, La Guardia’s two other Fusion allies on the Board, City Council President Newbold Morris and Manhattan Borough President Stanley M. Isaacs, announced they would vote with the Comptroller. Together the trio could cast eight votes—enough to keep the parkway from being approved. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 2726