Tag: Power Broker

Ruins of the World’s Fair: The New York State Pavilion, or how Philip Johnson’s futuristic architecture was almost forgotten

A little bit Jetsons, a little bit Gladiator, a little bit P.T Barnum. Photo/Marco Catini PODCAST The ruins of the New York State Pavilion, highlight of the 1964-65 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, have become a kind of unofficial Statue of Liberty of Queens, greeting people as they head to and from LaGuardia… Read More

Tags Flushing-Meadows, New York World's Fair 1964-65, Podcasts, Power Broker, Preservation, Robert Moses

Soooo, about that new HBO Robert Moses movie…..

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date November 2, 2011
6 Comments on Soooo, about that new HBO Robert Moses movie…..

You’ve probably heard by now that Oliver Stone is preparing to make a film version of Robert Caro’s ‘The Power Broker’, the iconic biography of New York’s influential city planner Robert Moses. Several people have emailed us for our reaction to Moses’s big-screen debut. (Well, small screen actually. It’s an HBO film.) The ‘master builder’… Read More

Tags Classic Film, Power Broker, Robert Caro, Robert Moses