Wealthy, well-connected neighborhoods could fight Moses where poor ones could not

Evidence

There hadn’t been a single lawyer among the 1,530 East Tremont families in the path of the Cross-Bronx Expressway near Crotona Park, but there were plenty of lawyers—good ones—among the hundred or so families near Central Park West and Sixty-seventh Street whose children played in the little glen, and many of them were willing to take the case for nothing. And those families could afford to raise the money for the substantial other legal expenses for a full-scale fight against the city. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 4056

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the recurring theme of class disparity in which communities could resist Moses — echoes ch41 on Crotona/East Tremont helplessness. — connects to: Central Park’s symbolic weight made it the one place Moses could not invade unnoticed — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 4059; Moses-era road and park building starved city hospitals and schools of funds — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 2722; Moses built no parks for the neighborhoods that needed them most — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 2110

Broader Connections

• Moses built no parks for the neighborhoods that needed them most #corroborates (0.90) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 2110