That checks out for Long Island. For how blue NYC is, Long Island is beet red. At best, Stony Brook is purple because of SUNY. I lost 20 years of my life there. I can’t wait for it to sink into the ocean.
All you have to know about Long Island culture is that they elected Lee Zeldin and George Santos, and that their bridges are purposefully built too low for busses.
Yes, that guy who amassed tons of power designing roads and bridges to keep poor people from getting to the beaches. I think I learned about him from a Behind the Bastards episode.
He was Parks Commissioner. Did everything in his power to not build parks in Harlem. Known for giving personal touches to parks that reflected the character of the neighborhoods they were in. When he built Riverside Park, the point of the park closest to Harlem was monkey themed.
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That checks out for Long Island. For how blue NYC is, Long Island is beet red. At best, Stony Brook is purple because of SUNY. I lost 20 years of my life there. I can’t wait for it to sink into the ocean.
All you have to know about Long Island culture is that they elected Lee Zeldin and George Santos, and that their bridges are purposefully built too low for busses.
They also worship cops like no one else.
Yes, that guy who amassed tons of power designing roads and bridges to keep poor people from getting to the beaches. I think I learned about him from a Behind the Bastards episode.
UK here. Is this really true?
What a scumbag. I really despise rich types like that who think they are superior to everyone else.
Here’s the fucker. I guess there’s some debate about it, given quick searches that I just ran. I don’t have time to deep dive before work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/10/robert-moses-saga-racist-parkway-bridges/
He was Parks Commissioner. Did everything in his power to not build parks in Harlem. Known for giving personal touches to parks that reflected the character of the neighborhoods they were in. When he built Riverside Park, the point of the park closest to Harlem was monkey themed.
I read a bit about him. Horrible racist bastard.
Oh! They have been at it for at least half a century now. There are numerous documentaries about it on YouTube alone.
Robert Moses. He has a parkway named after him
Wasnt Robert Moses also the bastard responsible for all the “urban renewal” projects that bulldozed poor/black neighborhoods to build freeways?