Reaction to the article “How the Coastline Became a Place to Put the Poor”

New York Times article under the name “How the Coastline Became a Place to Put the Poor” by Jonathan Mahler demonstrates that when New York was building poor people usually lived on the waterfront because the land in that area was cheap and available. Examples of the areas for low class people would be Red Hook, Coney Island, and Alphabet City. However, from Robert Moses, a famous urban planner in mid twenties century, point of view it would be more efficient for the city to move poor people to the center that’s why he was clearing slums and building projects in the city. Unfortunately, his vision of building the city was not successful as we see the negative consequences few years later after projects had been built. Moreover, Robert Moses faced a lot of significant protests throughout his career from New York residents and eventually he failed big time.