Photos from 'Robert Moses and the Modern City' - Photo #26

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Photo:  Ballon, Hilary, and Kenneth T. Jackson (editors), Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York, W.W. Norton & Co., New York (2007), p.198.
The 1939 World's Fair in Flushing Meadow, Queens NY. This was a massive New Deal job involving the park itself plus numerous highways and bridges connecting the various boroughs to the site.