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Robert Moses was weird, very far-sighted in some ways, and short-sighted to the point of blindness in others.

He wanted to build a expressway across lower Manhattan that would have destroyed the lower Village, Little Italy and China Town. DUMB!

BUT he invented and designed NY's auto highways, making blunders along the way but leaving us some truly fine parkways (as long as it is not rush hour).

I believe, but can not say for certain, that he encouraged the destruction of NYC's cable car system, truly a historic blunder.

I haven't seen the special, but I don't know that it would be correct to call Moses a villian if he simply opposed public funding for private enterprise. But clearly, looking back, the Dodgers should have had a stadium at the Atlantic Train yards, as the Nets are now about to build, and the Giants should have had the Shea Stadium area.

I was heavily involved in the Jets failed efforts to build a stadium on the West Side. I thought it was a great idea, most of my neighbors thought I was nuts. Go to WestSideStadium.org for more info-

Tom