Months after a Riverside Park Conservancy staff member called for the removal of a set of monkey statues from the park’s Ten Mile River Playground, the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation ...

Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this story. During the lean years of the Great Depression, New York City Parks Commissioner Robert Moses set out an ambitious goal to build swimming pools to relieve the ...

NEW YORK — Several weeks ago, I received an email asking me to participate in a survey that sought to gauge community interest in a swimming pool, to be built not far from my home in Brooklyn Heights.

Robert Caro’s 1974 biography “The Power Broker” is a book befitting its subject, Robert Moses — the unelected parochial technocrat who used a series of appointed positions to entirely reshape New York ...