Edward Norton’s ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ recalls how Robert Moses reshaped NYC in his own image

… the action from the original 1990s Brooklyn setting of author Jonathan Lethems book to 1950s Brooklyn In Nortons … that In the seven years between 1946 and 1954no public improvement of any type no school or sewer library or pier … 4000 familiesthey were given just 90 days to vacate their homes There were protests but Moses prevailed in the end …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 25, 2019 - 2:00PM