From where did Moses get funded ?
They argue that his legacy is more relevant than ever and that people take the parks , playgrounds and housing Moses built , now generally binding forces in those areas , for granted even if the old - style New York neighborhood was of no interest to Moses himself & were it not for Moses ' public infrastructure and his resolve to carve out more space , New York might not have been able to recover from the blight and flight of the 1970s and '80s and become the economic magnet it is today . “ Every generation writes its own history , ” said Kenneth T. Jackson , a historian of New York City .