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by Caro, Robert A


  Brydges, Earl, 1124, 1126

  Buckley, Charles A., 727, 734, 868, 981, 1014, 1046, 1050, 1056

  Buckley, Shumavon and Goul, 710, 1090

  Buffalo, 163, 200, 240, 248, 409, 410

  Buffalo Evening News, 406

  Building and Construction Trades Council, 735-6

  Building Trades Employers Association, 738-9, 1156

  Buloff, Joseph, 985

  Bunshaft, Gordon, 1092

  Bureau of International Expositions, 1093-4

  Bureau of Municipal Research, 60, 67-70, 91, 93, 654, 686, 782; and civil service reform, 70, 72-82, 84; investigated N.Y.C. administration 61-5, 82; RM at, 65, 67-8, 69-70, 72, 74, 78, 86-7, 93, 112, 181, 242, 349, 435, 580, 834; and state government reorganization, 96-8, 104, 106, 107, 126; Training School for Public Service of, 55, 63-5, 68

  Burkan, Nathan, 391

  Burke, John S., 741, 771

  Burlingham, Charles C. ("CC"), 131, 356, 429-30, 435, 436, 437, 440, 452; opposition to RM, 661-2, 664, 668, 671-2, 684, 766, 782

  buses, see transportation

  Bush, Prescott, 980

  Bushwick Expressway, 925

  Byrd, Adm. Richard, 652

  Camp, Walter, 1, 4, 40, 42, 44, 46, 570 Campo & Roberts, 1087-8 Canavan, Joseph J., 530 and n. Canham, Erwin D., 772 Captree Causeway (Robert Moses

  111

  Causeway), 312, 896, 950, 1152

  Captree Island, 234, 311, 312

  Captree State Park, 8

  Carew, John F., 400

  Cariello, Mario, 1129

  Carlino, Joseph F., 798

  Carl Schurz Park, 373, 489

  Carlyle, Thomas, 52

  Carnegie, Andrew, 149

  Cashmore, John, 729, 744, 928

  Casino, see Central Park Casino

  Caspert, Samuel, 979-82, 1006, 1008, 1012, 1017 and n., 1040

  Catholic Church: RM's use of, for political influence, 740-1, 845, 1015-16; N. Y. Archdiocese, 740-1, 1035, 1037

  Catholics: Irish, in building trades, 735, 738, 740-1; prejudice against, 280-1, 293, 321; Tammany and, 127

  Catledge, Turner, 461, 1053

  Catskill Mountains, 239

  Caumsett State Park, 302 and n., 1152

  CBS-TV, 991, 1000, 1027, 1028, 1029, 1031, 1094

  Cedar Island Beach, 311

  Centerport, 149

  Central Labor Council, 735

  Central Park, 4, 5, 26, 67, 85, 159, 333-4, 385, 481, 494, 741, 971; Battle of, 984-1004, 1016, 1022; in disrepair, 332, 334; Menagerie, 334-5, 380; opposition to RM on, 984-1004, 1030-4; playgrounds, 374, 378, 401,

  459, 460, 984, 989, 1002; renovation of, 371, 373, 374, 989; shack town, 336, 374; Shakespeare Festival, 1025-39; Sheep Meadow, 335, 984; Zoo, 334-5, 371-2, 374, 380-5, 397, 419, 477, 487; see also Tavern-on-the-Green

  Central Park Casino, 338-9, 3 97-401,

  460, 506-7, 996-7, 1001 Century Association, 679-80 Champ, Frank, 1160

  Chanler, William C, 398-400, 474-5,

  507, 688 Chapin, Col. William S., 271, 484, 813,

  814, 844, 848, 867-8, 887, 1041, 1084 Chapman, Oscar L., 686 Charpontier, Henri, 398 Chase Manhattan Bank: Rockefeller

  family and, 734, 1070, 1141; and

  Triborough bonds, 734, 1125, 1128,

  1134, 1139-41 Chemical Bank, 731, 734 Chesterfield, Lord, 443 Childs, Richard S., 130-1, 133, 134, 258,

  348, 349, 435, 486, 567 Chisholm Park, 373 Chittenango Falls, 227 Christian Science Monitor, 765, 772 Christie, Howard Chandler, 985

  IV

  Chrystie-Forsyth Park, 376, 378, 475

  cities, 7, 12, 60, 61, 542; federal funds for, 453, 463-4, 704; RM and, 10, 12, 927; see also housing; parks; roads and highways; transportation; and individual cities

  Citizens Commission on Reorganization in the State Government, 108-11; see also reorganization of New York State government

  Citizens Union, 3, 61, 83, 122, 123, 127, 131, 200, 348, 350, 35i» 355, 435, 540, 547, 568, 645, 649, 654, 658, 678, 700, 705, 712, 765, 770, 780, 783, 1001, 1040-2, 1058, 1118

  City Club, 3, 62, 108, 168, 200, 348, 349, 433, 435, 540, 542, 547-8, 567, 568, 645, 649, 654, 678, 765, 1058

  City Trust Company, 413, 585

  civil service: commissions, 621, 662; engineers and architects of, 340, 344, 621, 660, 665-6, 710, 775, 863, 867, 873-4, 1130; of Great Britain, 49, 51-5; human element in, 76, 78-81; merit in, 4, 52-3, 71, 75, 328; RM's standardization system for, 4, 19, 73, 74-82, 83-5, 655, 714; RM's thesis on, 52-5, 63, 72, 73, 76, 100, 105; of N.Y.C., 122, 328, 368, 472-3, 620-1, 797, 908; of N.Y.C., reorganization plan for, 4-5, 19, 70-82, 83-5; public authorities and, 472, 621; public works and, 620-1; regulations ignored by RM, 19, 181, 472, 621; of U.S., 54-5,

  59

  Civil Service of Great Britain, The (RM), 52-5, 63, 72, 73, 76, 100, 105

  Civil Service Reform Association, 72, 76

  Civil Works Administration (CWA), 372; aid for N.Y.C., 363, 368-70, 380, 383-5, 395, 465, 468, 532-5 passim, 537, 540; RM and, 392, 394, 550

  Clark, Ernest J., 807, 810, 841-2, 848, 873,886

  Clark, Grenville, 300-1, 317

  Clarke, Maj. Gilmore D., 223, 228, 232, 365, 371-2, 681, 682, 1086

  Clarke & Rapuano, 1086

  Clay, Gen. Lucius D., 921

  Clearview Expressway, 6, 849, 925, 950

  Clearwater, Alphonse Trumpbore, 246, 399; as park philanthropist, 199; on State Council of Parks, 195, 200, 244-55 passim; treatment of, by RM, 249-55, 290-1, 472, 499, 583

  Cleveland, 5, 87

  Cleveland, Frederick A., 60, 63, 68, 69, 70, 82, 93, 99

  Cleveland, Grover, 128, 234, 286 and n.

  Cloisters, 534, 548, 553, 773

  Clove Lakes Expressway, 896, 925

  Cohen, Bernhard (grandfather), 25-6, 27, 33, 34, 48, 242, 337, 578, 593

  Cohen, Mrs. Bernhard (Rosalie Silverman, grandmother), 25, 26-8, 31, 33, 34-5, 36, 37, 48, 241-2, 411 and n., 4^9, 577, 578, 579, 593, 601, 604, 830, 1150

  Cohen, David, 26

  Cohen, Henry, 976-7

  Cohen, Julius H., 616-17, 922

  Cohen, Samuel, 25-6

  Cold Spring Harbor, 152, 277-8, 279

  Cole, Albert M., 1014-16

  Coleman, Emil, 338-9

  Coleman, John A., 688, 741, 775, 778, mo

  Coliseum, 6, 829, 830, 921, 930, 987, 1013

  Collins, Caroline (granddaughter), 1060, 1161

  Collins, Christopher (grandson), 1060, 1161

  Colonial Park, 337, 493; Pool, 457, 513-14

  Colt, S. Sloan, 922

  Columbia University, 55

  Columbia Yacht Club, 503-7

  Communists: House Un-American Activities Committee, 471, 1026, 1029, 1031-2; labels used by RM, 15, 471-4, 666, 992; New Deal and, 471, 574; press and, 966

  Community Councils of the City of N.Y., Inc., 499

  commuting, see transportation

  Compton, Betty, 325, 338-9

  Concord Village project, 968

  Condello, Victor F., 789, 790, 806

  condemnation, see housing; Long Island State Park Commission; New York City, public works in; public works; and individual categories and projects

  Conduit Boulevard, 147, 339, 896, 905

  Coney Island, 152, 335, 462, 470, 687; Aquarium, 686-7

  Connetquot Park, 829, 1152

  Connor, Bob, 822

  Consolidated Edison Company, 394, 506, 580, 582, 583, 586, 845-6, 1068

  Constable, Stuart, 747, 752, 815, 825, 873, 977, 986, 993, 995, 999, 1027, 1029-33, 1035, 1037, 1039, 1089, 1098, 1103, 1105, 1106

  contractors, 327-8, 622, 723; and

  Democratic Party, 723-4, 725-6, 738, 740-1, 745, 775; RM's use of, for political influence, 18, 466, 713-14, 738-9, 748, 753, 775, 799, 927, 934, ion, 1090, 1120, 1153; World's Fair, 1090

  Cook, Fred J., 744, 1005-13, 1016-25, 1039, 1046-51 passim, 1057

  Cooke, Terence Cardinal, 1156

  Coolidge, Calvin, 187

  Cooney, Joan Ganz, 604-
5

  Cooney, Tim, 1055

  Co-Op City, 1151

  Cooper, James B., 204, 236-7, 276,

  502-3 Coordinator of Construction, see N.Y.C.

  Coordinator of Construction Copeland, Dr. Royal S., 417 Corbett, Harvey W., 221, 223 Corbetta, Roger, 738, 1156 Corbetta Construction Company, 738,

  1090 Corbin, Sol, 1123 Corlears Hook, 6-7, 1026-7 Cornwell, Dean, 985 Corona Pool, 513 corruption and honest graft: banks, 18,

  725, 733-5, 739, 753, 927, 934, 1048, 1055, 1069, 1090; borough presidents, 743-8 passim, ion; business, 741-2, 753, 927, 934, ion, 1055; contractors, 327-8, 466, 713-14, 723-4, 725-6, 738-9, 753, 775, 799, 927, 934, ion, 1090; in courts, 350-1, 712; insurance premiums, 18, 713-14, 716, 718-20 and n., 725, 729, 753, 934, ion, 1087-8; labor, 18, 735, 737-8, 739, 753, 927, 934, 1055; legal fees, 18, 713-14, 716, 720 and n., 721, 729, 934, ion, 1090; on RM's team, 722, 729; RM's use of, for political influence, 17-19, 718-27 passim, 731, 739-43, 747-8, 753-4, ion, 1016, 1022, 1055-6, 1080, 1087-9, 1090; in N.Y.C, 18, 321, 322, 324-8, 333 "•, 340, 353-4, 404, 464, 620, 654, 712-14, 717-54 passim, 757, 786-7, 927, 934, ion, 1055; and power, 18, 722, 739-40, 743, ion, 1055-6; public relations retainers, 17-18, 713, 927; real estate commissions, 713, 934; Retainer Regiment, 713-14, 721, 753, 927, 928, 934; Title I, 718, 726-7, 965, 979-82, 1006-13, 1014, 1016-18, 1040-54 passim, 1062; and World's Fair, 1087-9, 1090, 1098, 1108; see also patronage

  Costello, Frank, 756, 786, 787, 788, 1044-5

  Costikyan, Edward N., 717, 739, 740

  Coughlin, Father, 473

  Cox, James M., 113

  Coy, Ted, 39, 42

  Crater, Joseph Force, 375-6

  Crews, John R., 660, 719

  Crews, Robert J., 660, 668

  crime, 20, 511-12, 524, 861, 882, 888, 889, 890, 893, 964

  Crimmins Contracting Company, Thomas, 738

  Crocheron Park, 373

  Croker, Richard, 127

  Cross, Guernsey, 297, 306

  Cross Bay Bridge, 6, 698, 1129, 1143, 1156, 1157

  Cross-Bronx Expressway, 6, 83; 850, 859-94, 896, 924, 925; alternate route, 863-78; blasting 841, 860, 886; condemnations for, 841, 850 and n., 851, 859, 869, 873, 878, 882-3, 887; construction difficulties, 839-43; cost of, 841, 851, 869, 885-6; funds for, 864-5, 868-9, 871, 885-6; interchanges, 842-3; and neighborhood decay, 860-1, 880-3, 888-90, 893; opposition to RM, 864-78; right-of-way for, 850, 859, 862, 886; tenant eviction and relocation for, 848, 860-3, 866, 870, 875, 878-82, 884, 983, 986, 1050; traffic congestion on, 885

  Cross-Brooklyn Expressway, 918, 925, 951, 1124

  Cross-County Parkway, 8, 896

  Cross-Island Parkway, 8, 341, 343, 896, 898, 950, 1157

  Crosswaith, Frank R., 804-5

  Crotona Park, 373, 850, 852, 857, 863, 877, 888, 890

  Cruise, Philip J., 725, 775, 802, 803, 804-5, 879, 1017

  Cullman, Howard S., 91, 259, 280, 692-3, 784, 922, 923, 1028-9, 1090

  Cummins, Seymour, 937

  Cunningham Park, 1083, 1086

  Curran, Henry H., 132, 348, 353, 354

  Current History, 570

  Curry, John F., 321

  Cymrot, Benjamin, 881

  Damrosch Park, 1157

  Daniel, Clifton, 1099

  Darcy, J. J., 710

  Daus, Melvin, 511

  Davenport, Frederick M., 132

  Davidson, Maurice, 353, 355-6

  Davies, J. Clarence, Jr., 1025

  Davies, John R., 682

  Davies, Julian T., 154-5

  Davis, John W., 149

  Davis, Murray, 379, 473, 825, 1005,

  1089 Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart, 985-6 Davison, F. Trubee, 152, 176-7, 185,

  192, 193, 212, 399-400, 402, 404-5,

  406, 407, 410, 635 Davison, Henry P., 152, 176, 402 Dawson, Jim, 804 Day & Zimmerman, Inc., 946 and n.,

  948-9 Dee, Vivian, 890-2 Deegan, Thomas, 1089, 1098, 1104 Deegan, Maj. William F., 896 n. Deegan Co., Inc., Thomas J., 1089 Deer Range Corporation, 184, 188

  VI

  Deer Range State Park, 211, 213, 214, 216-17; see also Heckscher State Park

  De Forest, Robert W., 149, 250-1, 253, 254-5, 256, 278, 279, 299, 300

  Delacorte, George, 1038

  Delehanty, James, 377, 592

  De Lillo (contractors), 1090

  Democratic Party, 293, 574, 579; and borough presidents, 743-6; in the Bronx, 734; construction trades and, 723-4, 725-6, 735, 738, 740-1, 745, 775; and Depression, 321; honest graft in, 711-12, 716, 730, 744, 747, ion; RM enrolled in, 291, 402, 630; in Nassau County, 311; in N.Y.C., 18, 347, 349, 351, 359, 7H-I2, 718, 763; of N.Y.S., 283, 403, 407, 408; in N.Y.S. Legislature, 119, 120, 121, 122, 125, 139, 263, 360-1, 761; reform in, 717; FDR and, 286, 292; Smith and, 280-1; and Title I projects, 965, 979-82, 1006-13, 1017-18, 1040, 1045-8, 1050; see also Tammany Hall

  Dempsey, Jack, 264

  Denniston, Leigh, 901, 902

  Depression, 217, 380, 486, 528, 535, 537, 557, 574, 583, 587, 589-90, 621, 722-3, 889; in N.Y.C., 323-4, 325, 326, 327, 329, 336, 340, 344, 346, 347, 370, 374, 376, 521, 526, 610, 760; in N.Y.S., 313, 319, 345, 369, 404, 528; and public works, 344, 345-6, 362, 372, 386, 616, 704; FDR and, 344, 404

  De Sapio, Carmine, 718, 719, 727, 744, 778, 788, 799, 1017-18, 1046, 1048, 1055, 1056, 1063, 1069, 1087 and n., 1088 and n.

  Desmond, James, 1075, 1076

  Dewey, Adm. George, 652

  Dewey, Thomas E., 1068, 1139-40; as Governor, 9, 707, 761-3, 79 h 817; RM and, 707, 835, 1069, 1070, 1071, 1079, 1125, 1134

  Dike, Norman S., 203-4

  Di Napoli, Pete, 723, 738

  Dix Hills, 299, 301, 303

  Dollinger, Isidore, 865

  Donoghue, William J., 788, 1045-6, 1050, 1089, 1090, 1098

  Doolittle, Lt. Gen. James H., 763

  Dougherty, Malcolm T., 44, 49-50, 51

  Doughty, G. Wilbur, 205, 208-10, 217, 218, 311, 405

  Douglas, Paul, 1100

  Douglaston, 103

  Dowling, Robert, 685

  Downer, Jay, 250-4, 317-18

  Drake & Piper, 1090

  Dreier-Offerman Playground, 378

  Dryfoos, Orvil, 1053-4, 1095

  Duchin, Eddie, 339

  Dunne, James A., 215, 216

  Du Pont, F. V., 706

  Du Pont family, 573

  Duryea, Perry B., Jr., 267-8, 820, 1071,

  1080, 1124, 1126, 1133, 1136-7,

  1138, 1141, 1142, 1152 Dutchess County, 288 Dyker Beach Park, 331, 370 Dykman, Jackson, 448

  Earhart, Amelia, 652

  Earle, Mrs. William (Jen), 132

  Eastern Parkway, 896

  East Islip, 154, 162, 184, 187, 188, 191, 211, 276, 312

  East River Drive, 6, 393-4, 448, 655, 658, 668, 921

  East Tremont, 851-94, 971, 983, 988, 990; decay of, 860-1, 880-3, 888-90; Neighborhood Association (ETNA), 865-84 passim, 890-2; nonwhites in, 857-9

  Ecker, Frederick H., 771

  Edelstein, Julius, 805

  Edelstein, Lillian, 859, 860, 862-82 passim, 890, 990, 991

  Ederle, Gertrude, 652

  Eggers & Higgins, 775

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 921

  Elizabeth II, Queen, 1041, 1058

  Elkus, Abram, 129, 131

  Embury, Aymar, II, 365, 371-2, 384, 486, 487, 665, 676, 1085

  Emergency Fleet Corporation, 86

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 633

  Empire State Building Corporation, 293, 38o, 573

  Engelking, L. L., 987

  engineering mentality, 459, 705, 708, 850

  engineers, 193, 390-1, 394, 456; civil service, 340, 344, 621, 665-6, 710, 775, 863, 873-4, 867, 1130; consultant, 607, 679-80, 694, 710, 769, 775, 863-4, 869, 873-4, 946, 1086, 1090, 1130; for Jones Beach, 221, 223, 231-2; La Guardia and, 359, 394, 454; RM as teacher of, 10-11, 706; RM's, 226-31, 360, 362-5 passim, 369, 371, 453-4, 464, 486, 665, 679, 696, 710, 748, 804, 828, 873-4, 911, 1153; see also Moses Men

  Epstein, Henry, 872, 873-4, 875-6
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br />   Epstein, Jason, 985

  Equitable Life Assurance Society, 720, 846

  Erie County Parkway, 212, 247-54, 256

  Ernst, Morris, 132, 435, 436-7, 603

  Ethical Culture Society, 27, 33

  Evans, Jim, 1124

  eviction, see relocation and eviction

  PRACTICES

  expressways, see roads and highways Exton, William, Jr., 500, 502, 540-8,

  550, 551-2, 560, 564-5, 613, 645,

  678-80

  Fairchild, Lambert, 506

  Farley, James A., 295, 321, 356-7,

  411 n., 423, 428, 429, 432, 771, 803;

  as N.Y.S. Athletic Commission

  chairman, 264; as Postmaster

  General, 416-17, 437 Farley, Phillip P., 546-7 farmers, of L.I., 148, 301, 312,

  acquisition of land from, 182-3;

  eviction of, 183, 279-80, 301, 303 Farrell, Maj. Gen. Thomas F., 763,

  767, 775, 813, 839-41, 848, 887 Fearon, George R., 410, 421 Federal-Aid Highway Act, 704 Federal Bureau of Public Roads, 11,

  534, 535, 705-6, 747, 752, 844 Federal Emergency Relief

  Administration, 372 Federal Housing Acts, 610, 704, 707 Federal Housing and Home Finance

  Agency, 963, 983, 1014-16, 1058,

  1061 Federal Housing Authority (FHA),

  610, 613, 747, 1047, 1054 Federal Interstate Highway Act, 11,

  704, 845, 886, 922 Federal Interstate Highway System, 11,

  706, 711, 921, 924 Federation Bank and Trust Company,

  722-3, 724, 725, 726, 734, 775,

  1047-8, 1051, 1056 Felt, James, 805 Ferman, Jack, 1012 and n. Ferretti, Fred, 1107, 1112 Ferris, John, 1019-20, 1050 Ferry Point Park, 775 Field, Louis N., 997, 1001-2 Field, Marshall, 150 Fieldston, 542, 546 Fink, Angie, 601 Finkelstein, Jerry, 779-86 passim, 789,

  792-4 firehouses, 451, 464, 759, 1014 Fire Island, 147, 160 and «., 170-1,

  229, 234, 311-12, 458, 502, 619, 808,

  1096, 1152 Fire Island State Park (Robert Moses

  State Park), 8, 170, 182, 220, 237,

  792, 950, 1080, 1152 First National City Bank, 1105-6 Fish, Hamilton, Jr., 403 n. Fisher, Carl G., 186 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 146, 1067, 1083

  Ml

  Flanagan, Edward J., 863, 873 Floyd Bennett Field, 500 Flushing Meadows, 1082-4; N.Y <

  Building, 1085; Park, 343' 569, I

  828, 1082-7, 1092, mi, 11 l? . 14

  1156, 1162; UN at, 771, 1085;

  World's Fair at, 654, 771, 1061, 1082 Flynn, Edward J., 297-8, 321, 322,

  356-7, 418, 423, 700, 711, 713,

  720-1, 743, 744, 786-7, 868, 1046 Flynn, Jack, 1074 Flynn, James J., 226-7 Foley, James A., 592-3 Foley, Tom, 116, 117-18, 120, 128 Ford, Henry, 60, 143-4 Fordham University, 741, 830, 845,

 

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