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For the civil rights activist see Robert Parris Moses.
Robert Moses (1888-1981) was a planner and administrator who changed the face of New York City and New York state in a career of several decades. Occupying a variety of public offices in the state and city between 1924 and 1968, he was responsible for building the freeway system, 416 miles of parkways, 13 bridges including the Triborough and Verrazano Narrows bridges, and he hugely increased the area od state parks.
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