Walter Shapiro

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@Bob2A1959NYC I read “The Power Broker” when it came out. So I know Moses’ history. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 11, 2021

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I am doing this from memory but Robert Moses made sure that all the parkway bridges between NYC and the beaches of Long Island were too low for buses. His racist logic: Most Black people didn’t own cars in the 1940s and 1950s. — PolitiTweet.org

@WaPoMax It is addressed throughout. For instance, page 968 https://t.co/GH38INx3BE

Posted April 11, 2021

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It’s like the old joke about how do you make a “small fortune” producing shows on Broadway? Start with a “large fortune.” — PolitiTweet.org

Fair, if depressing, observation in @nytimes on billionaires as possible saviors for struggling newspapers. From… https://t.co/p30aE8VhwS

Posted April 11, 2021