Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Robert Moses is the most Notorious city planner in the history of New York. And if he had his way, Fire Island National Seashore would have looked way different than it does today. But it doesn't. This is the story of how Fire Island defeated Robert Moses

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Sources and Resources:
Saving Fire Island from Robert Moses by Christopher Verga
https://sunypress.edu/content/download/451904/5497193/version/1/file/9780791473412_imported2_excerpt.pdf
youtube.com/watch?v=9y1xjTP3IvY
youtube.com/watch?v=LmC5T-2d6Xw

Images and Music:
Storyblocks
Bay Shore Historical Society
Fire Island Historical Preservation Society
Queens Public Library
NPS
Wikimedia Commons (Peter Shagen, Jim.henderson, Anthony 22, bjoertvedt, Doug Kerr, Fletcher)
AP/John Rooney
New York Times/Meyer Liebowitz
National Archives
Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society
New York Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation