Comments by "starventure" (@starventure) on "The Highway Fight that Changed Cities Forever" video.

To be fair, Moses was a racist, along with Levitt and many of the era. Racism was a part of the social fabric of that time, and he should not be judged by modern eyes without proper cognition. It was a simple fact of life that Blacks and PRs were a curse upon NYC; neighborhoods that had been white and safe were turned into filthy ghettos that no one of any sanity wanted to live in. Urbanists like to pin the blame on automobiles and lack of mass transit and irrational fear, etc but will never accept the fact that people like to live in safety without fear, and NYC lost huge amounts of population precisely because of this.
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Robert Moses was only relevant in the New York area, which was culturally and politically separate from the United States from the 1920s forwards. The only "Americans" who speak of him are all in NYC and usually college students.
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@McsMark1 Are you white?
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@jan-lukas You cannot stop the NIMBYs from moving out if you piss them off too much. Every area that scared the NIMBYs away, ended up a ghetto.
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@carkawalakhatulistiwa City Skylines also doesn't have, ahem, social disasters in the disaster menu such as race riots or blighted neighborhoods because then it would not be a game but a simulation.
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@laurencefraser When NIMBYism fails, there are two plausible responses, both of which ruined NYC. The first is relocation to suburbs, usually far enough away that the undesirable types cannot reach it from the city. The second, and far worse option was insurance fraud a.k.a. arson, "Jewish lightning", torching. Whole buildings and neighborhoods were burned by landlords to claim insurance coverage while pinning the blame on the occupants who usually were minorities, which increased the stereotype imaging of them.
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@raventhorX The curious thing about underwater properties is their propensity to catch on fire for no reason at all. Ask anyone who lived in NYC in the 1960s and 1970s about this.
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South Bronx was already experiencing a higher than normal crime and arson rate before construction began on the Cros Bronx Expressway. The neighborhoods were dying at an alarming rate, and the compensation to the landlords was enough that few put up a fight to give up the land to Moses.
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@Evemeister12 Arson started in the late 1950s. It went nuts in the 70s, but it existed well beforehand.
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She is also the primary reason that Long Island does not have a direct link to the rest of the country and has to send traffic through NYC, causing needless traffic jams and environmental pollution. Moses was misguided with the LOMEX plan, but the concept of getting traffic through the city from LI to Jersey was not wrong at all.
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@SNeaker328 Good idea, good luck getting the government to cough up the needed funding.
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Cry all you want about racism, but at the end of the day everyone is racist to a degree or another and equality is a myth. Some people just genuinely care about where they live more than others, and when you lose those people, you lose the area. Colonizing with knuckleheads who couldn't care about anything just accelerates the death of it all.
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BS, the city is surrounded on all sides by strip mall type suburbs and this includes the outer boroughs like Queens, Bronx and Brooklyn. And people from the sticks usually move to Manhattan for one or more of three reasons: 1. Work/School 2. Culture 3. Sexual choice.
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