Jun 30 2011 09:45 am
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The Parkway System
During the 1920s, Moses sparred with Franklin D.Roosevelt then head of the Taconic State Park Commission, who favored the prompt construction of a Parkway through the Hudson Vally. Moses succeeded in diverting funds to his Long Island parkway projects (the Northern State Parkway , the Southern State Parkway and the Wantagh State Parkway although the Taconic State Parkway was later completed as well. Moses is frequently given credit as the father of the New York State Parkway System from these projects.
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