Saving Fire Island from Robert Moses

Released on by Christopher C. Verga
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  • Saving Fire Island from Robert Moses Book Detail

  • Author : Christopher C. Verga
  • Release Date : 2019-03-25
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 139
  • ISBN 13 : 1439666431
  • File Size : 39,39 MB
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Saving Fire Island from Robert Moses by Christopher C. Verga PDF Summary

Book Description: Small coastal communities stand up to the giant of mid-20th century urban development in this chronicle of a true David and Goliath drama. With its unspoiled, tranquil shorelines, Fire Island has been an oasis for vacationers for well over a century. But from the late 1930s into the early 1960s, it was an obsession for Robert Moses, the political power broker and "master builder" who reshaped much of New York. His urban development projects helped create Long Island’s suburbs, and he dreamed of turning Fire Island into an extension of Ocean Parkway. Standing up to those ambitions were the seventeen individualistic communities of Fire Island, unified in their love for their sun-washed sandy beaches. To maintain a traditional way of life with limited access to motor vehicles, the community began the fight for federal protection through the creation of the Fire Island National Seashore.

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Small coastal communities stand up to the giant of mid-20th century urban development in this chronicle of a true David and Goliath drama. With its unspoiled, t

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Fire Island is a string of communities and parks, gay and straight bars, boats and bridges, beach umbrellas and bungalows--all bound together by the pristine wh

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The birth of Fire Islands modern era may well be the day it was declared a national seashoreSeptember 11, 1964. From this day on, the barrier island would remai