#ConstitutionDay
Last year, #99PI had the fantastic breakdown of #ThePowerBroker (by #RobertCaro).
This year, they are tackling the #USConstitution!!
Listen and learn!!
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Screenshot of article from Smithsonian Magazine entitled, “Rifling Through the Archives With Legendary Historian Robert Caro.” From March of 2025.
“Rifling Through the Archives With Legendary Historian #RobertCaro”
From #SmithsonianMag (March 2025): www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rifl...
#ThePowerBroker
#TheYearsOfLyndonJohnson
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Just began the first chapter! #ThePowerBroker
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Wat een geweldig interview! Ik ga NU #ThePowerBroker bestellen (en pagina voor pagina tot me nemen)!
Dank!
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Gotta give credit to Gene Gleason and Fred Cook at the World Telegram too. Their stories were even better researched and critical of Moses than those at the Post.
#thepowerbroker #robertmoses #robertcaro
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It’s crazy that the NY Post was the only NYC paper doing actual journalism in the 1950s.
#thepowerbroker #robertmoses #robertcaro
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Oliver, our ginger cat, sitting on the power broker. A very serious cat,ready to ...go to nap
Behold, the cat broker!
I'm singing to him:
Do you wanna build a highway?
It doesn't have to go through a park! ☃️🎶😻
#cat #thepowerbroker
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I'm personally neither a fan nor a critic of Brendan Lee Mulligan's roleplaying style. But I did enjoy The Power Broker episode where they interviewed Brendan, in part about his D&D campaign patterned as a sort of mythic NYC shaped by an esoteric version of Robert Moses, inspired directly by […]
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@romanmars.bsky.social and @99pi.org, I just came across this video (youtu.be/hfsoz_K-J8A?...) by Half as Interesting and immediately thought of #ThePowerBroker, before even watching it.
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Making a second attempt (Thank you, @nyhistory.bsky.social!) 📚 #robertcaro #thepowerbroker (What would Robert Moses think of #congestionpricing?)
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Speaking of unelected officials deciding how to spend taxpayer money, guess what I finished last night? #thepowerbroker
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Great series! @romanmars.bsky.social, I would love a #ThePowerBroker style take on the Kingfish himself, LA governor Huey P Long. Or maybe a 99pi story about how he built dorms in the shape of a football stadium since he had funding for one but not the other, or his secret tunnels under Baton Rouge!
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@romanmars.bsky.social, since you started #ThePowerBroker on @99pi.org, I can’t help but feel that Donald Trump yearns to be Robert Moses, and doesn’t realize he lives in a world where the levers that allowed Robert Moses’s existence are gone.
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. by Robert A. Caro. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Cover image: A massive, cracked, crumbling pillar with the bust of Robert Moses on it, dwarfing everything around it in the middle of New York City.
I’ve heard the @99pi.org podcast. Now it’s time to read the book. #ThePowerBroker
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I hopped aboard #99PercentInvisible's breakdown of #ThePowerBroker one year ago having no idea what I was getting myself into. One year later, this is the best biography I have ever read. It's a hell of a mountain to climb, but one well worth summiting:
litcityblues.substack.com/p/the-power-...
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I read every word of this incredible book back in 2023. For such a dry subject it made me go through all the emotions. #NYC is such an incredible place both in awesome and terrifying ways. From far, far away, I felt like a New Yorker. #thepowerbroker #robertmoses #urbanism
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Only TWO DAYS until #ThePowerBroker is out on audio… who’s counting?
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My December reads. Actually The Power Broker was an all-year read. Definitely a favorite for the year. The Memory Palace was another favorite.
Are we hashtagging here? #thepowerbroker #thememorypalace
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Finishing The Power Broker Before The Year is Out Challenge.
I stopped doing the daily updates, but I'm happy to report that I have finished reading chapter 50 today. (I started reading the notes but those would have to wait).
#booksky
#ThePowerBroker
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nextcity.org/urbanist-news/jane-jacob... “There are two entire chapters that were cut out…One was on Jane Jacobs stopping the Lower Manhattan Expressway. And one was why the New York City Planning Commission has no power” #ThePowerBroker #JaneJacobs […]
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That is the absolute! I'll have to hide myself away for 6 weeks with essential foodstuffs! #RobertACaro #thepowerbroker
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The Power Broker, the story of Robert Moses’ destruction and reconstruction of New York City. It is being held at an angle to show its seemingly infinite pages.
Has anyone on here ever gotten through this TOME? #thepowerbroker
I know I should, just not sure if I can.
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Illustration of grid lines and road lines with The Power Broker logo on top.
Listening to the final Power Broker podcast on @99pi.org which means I FINISHED reading this book.
Can't believe I did it!!!! Thank you 99% Invisible for making this possible.
#thepowerbroker #bookclub #robertmoses #robertcaro
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Celebrating The Power Broker’s 50th anniversary, I had the honor of meeting Robert Caro!
This timeless book remains a vital guide to understanding power, influence, and urban development.
Here’s to the lessons it continues to teach. #ThePowerBroker
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Weary dog and human on page 1109 of the book The Power Broker by Robert Caro
Final push in a rare moment of quiet with 60 pages left of #ThePowerBroker @99pi.org
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Is anyone else reading #thepowerbroker ?
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A black coffee mug with the words “I FINISHED THE POWER BROKER” in white and red letters.
Today in “why yes, I am a giant nerd” purchases. #thepowerbroker
(Caveat-I still have three more chapters in my 99 percent invisible re-read, but since I actually finished it the first time almost 25 years ago, I feel justified 😂)
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In the 1950s, #RobertMoses needed to connect two of his highways so he cooked up a plan for what would become the #CrossBronxExpressway. The only thing in his way were thousands of #Bronx residents, whom he basically had evicted.
Check out #RobertCaro’s book #ThePowerBroker for more info!
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