Apr 7, 2009
[Even after Robert Moses lost power, his former colleagues still] treated him with the respect he remembered. Everybody connected with the commission, in fact, treated him with respect. When the author drove him down to meet Adam Carp, Moses told him to park in an area marked “No Thoroughfare.” After he left, the author was sitting there jotting down notes when a Long Island State Park Commission patrolman loomed in is window. “Don’t you see the sign?” he asked with the usual LISPC arrogance. “Well, you see, I drove Mr. Moses down … ,” the author began. “Oh,” the cop said, straightening, and started to walk away without a word. Then he returned. “Thanks for telling me,” he said. “I’d be out of work and my children would be starving.—PB, 1155
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