Assignment: NYC Episode 6

This is easily my favorite episode: the story of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, who undertook the largest public works projects in the city's history, building parks and transforming the city to accommodate the automobile. Neighborhoods were destroyed and the poor were segregated in the process, as Moses accumulated power unprecedented for an American civic employee.

In concert with this viewing, please read the New Yorker's four excerpts of Robert Caro's The Power Broker.