Both were dead set on plowing an expressway through Washington Square Park in the heart of Manhattan’s West Village. Moses was the city’s master planner who built New York’s parkways and major bridges. DeSapio was a powerful New York assemblyman and head of the “Tammany Hall” machine that dominated local politics for nearly a century. “There’s a change in the air, and much of it is attributable to her.”Įyes on the Street traces Jacob’s intellectual development from New York-based freelance journalist to activist who not only wrote groundbreaking books but also took on 1960s political behemoths Carmine DeSapio and Robert Moses. “There are ‘Jane Jacobs pockets’ sprouting up in cities everywhere,” says Robert Kanigel, who has written a new biography of Jacobs out this month, Eyes on the Street.
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