He is survived by his wife, Clara Gayness Moses; his daughters, Natalie Moses (Douglas Klaucke) and children, Benjamin, Julien and Robert Pougnier; Carol Moses (David Vasconcelos) and children, Alice Moses, Aldo Pena-Moses; Katherine Moses Royer (Brad) and children, Brendan and Aaron; and Laura Moses; nine great-grandchildren; his brother, His other projects included much of Interstate 278 (the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and Staten Island Expressway), the Cross-Bronx Expressway, parkways, and other highways. He was arrested, beaten, and shot at. Upon his fathers death in 1977, the son, then 18, found himself alone. The Triborough Bridge (now officially the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge) opened in 1936 and connects the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens via three separate spans. "I never knew that there was denial of the right to vote behind a Cotton Curtain here in the United States.". At this challenging and reflective time we send peace, strength and love to the Moses Family: Bobs wife, Dr. Janet Jemmott Moses; children Maisha Moses, Omo Moses, Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later During his time there, he accompanied an adoptive mother on a trip to Florida to pick up one of the two Robert Parris Moses, civil rights legend who founded the Algebra The Power Broker Turns 40: How Robert Civil rights activist Robert Moses dies at 86 - POLITICO - Yahoo! The Long Island Expressway, a true Autobahn intended to relieve traffic congestion on the Island, was built by Moses alongside the Parkways. Hence, as a segregationist measure, those bridges would be utterly ineffectual. Connect to the World Family Tree to find out, neighborhoods, leading as well to the city's in 1976. I dont know., https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/nyregion/thecity/14mose.html. He also clashed with chief engineer of the project, Ole Singstad, who preferred a tunnel instead of a bridge. Moses was also empowered as the sole authority to negotiate in Washington for New York City projects. I mean, how can you ever hope to get around that? The play, which won Tony Awards, was set in 1964, the Freedom Summer year. I tried to go to the exact same space, he recalled, and it turned out to be the romance division of Random House or something. Working in the famous building since 1984 has had a definite, if intangible, effect on his writing. Yet the author is more neutral in his central premise: the city would have been a very different placemaybe better, maybe worseif Robert Moses had never existed. Sometimes wed eat in the office and take intermittent naps on the sofa. Bob Moses 1 2 3 4 . I wouldnt even go with anyone, he added. Moses' repeated and forceful public denials of the fair's considerable financial difficulties in the face of evidence to the contrary eventually provoked press and governmental investigations, which found accounting irregularities. One sweltering summer night, he stripped down to his underwear and, deep in his work, lost track of time until the presence of a startled secretary at his side brought him to his senses.