New York City The Museum of the City of New York has an exhibit revisiting the work of Robert Moses and his imprint on the city from parks to highways to bridges and buildings. Moses was the master builder of the middle 20th century, especially during the zenith of his power, in the 50’s and …
Category: Rebuild New Orleans
Richard Ford’s Delery Street Welcome
Buenos Aires Even 5000 miles away one could sense the excitement from all the reports of the celebration on Delery Street of the completion of the first two houses to be built in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans since the storm. It was a three-ring circus of ACORN members, scads of press, the …
Road to Nowhere
New Orleans A front came into town overnight accompanied by hard rain and thunder, so of course the electricity went down. The good news is that power was only down from 3:15 to 6:15 in the morning — we’re coming back! But, we are not really coming back to New Orleans in the numbers needed, …