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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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,