[THE BIG APPLE]

If you saw Moses standing in front of a map with his pencil going over it in sweeping gestures, you would see the dreamer, the visionary, the artist, he saw New York. By New York I mean New York and it's suburbs, 2100 sq miles, an area in which 12 million people lived. He saw all this as a canvas, he was going to build his roads across it, he was going to build his roads around it, there would be parks here, public housing here, he saw the whole this as one great mural, one huge wonderful mural, it all had the unity and the vision and that is the vision to which New York and its suburbs were shaped - Robert Allan Caro

What Moses is doing as the executor of this program, the federal government's New Deal money just cascades into the city and very much in the Oldmstead tradition, he is going to build a series of connecting highways - Mike Wallace, Professor of History

Before the decade was out, a great circumferential parkway had begun to sweep around Brooklyn from the East River to the Atlantic Ocean, a ravishing bridge had leapt over the Harlem River connecting Manhattan to the Bronx, and the revolutionary West Side improvement a gorgeously landscaped 6 and a half mile long urban symphony - part park and part parkway - had begun to sweep majestically down the West Side of Manhattan along the Hudson River