I've often had opportunity to muse that the real legacy of Robert Moses

[conuly]

is that people still complain about him decades after his death, but I still didn't expect to encounter it twice in two days. (All complaints about Robert Moses are undoubtedly valid.)

Comments

[lilysea]

At first I thought you meant "post US civil war" and then I got to "highway" and realised you probably meant World War II

[redbird]

"Post-war" is World War II, yes, I'm not sure how much of that is because of the broader US "lots of highways built after that war" and how much is more local. New Yorkers also use "pre=War" to mean apartment buildings built before the war, which tend to have higher ceilings and thicker walls between apartments than post-war construction.

Robert Moses was powerful in/around New York City from around World War II until the early 1970s, I think. If you've heard of Jane Jacobs (Death and Life of Great American Cities) she helped stop Moses from bulldozing part of a residential neighborhood in lower Manhattan in toder to build a highway through the neighborhood.