Word: triborough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scarred and swarming tenements along Harlem's East 108th Street have changed little since Gambler Frank Costello was a boy. The towers of the Triborough Bridge now float in the sky just beyond their chimneys, and a snare-drum roll of traffic drifts up from the modern East River Drive. Negroes and Puerto Ricans choke the slums to west and north. But the old neighborhood is still Italian. Its sidewalk garbage cans (each with its cover chained to prevent theft), its great, voracious rats, its smells, its endless noise, are the same...
...present Garden (built in 1925), and will cover two city blocks (between 58th and 60th Streets, at Columbus Circle). It will provide Manhattan with 1) the world's biggest convention hall, and 2) parking space for 2,000 cars. To finance the building, New York City's Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority will sell $25 million in bonds. Madison Square Garden Corp. will operate it under a 35-year lease which guarantees New York City $1,000,000 a year in rent...
...York, practically bankrupt when he took office, was a sound and stable concern when he left. During his twelve years, New York built a new city prison, 67 schools, 262 playgrounds, 14 vast housing projects, two hospitals, great stretches of parkway, the Triborough and Bronx-Whitestone Bridges, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. It bought and consolidated its subway and surface transportation systems, built miles of new underground rail lines. But he had given the city more than material benefits; he had stamped on the serpent of municipal corruption until it moved only faintly; he had proved that "reform mayors" need...
There were plenty of other crusades-for woman suffrage, against child labor and the yellow peril, etc. (The Journal gracefully took no credit for the Spanish-American War.) If a Hearst reporter had not dropped a chance remark to a Manhattan Borough president in 1915, the Triborough Bridge might never have been built. The politician told the reporter the idea of the bridge was "a wonderful thing. . . . Write me a memo on it." And 21 years later, the bridge was there...
...Other Moses titles: Triborough Bridge Authority Chairman, State Council of Parks Chairman, Long Island Park Commission President, New York City Planning Commission member...