Word: sandbar
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...carefully and creatively designed public work of its size in the country. Moses personally selected all the building materials, and many of the smaller touches--wrought-iron direction markers, for example--came from his imagination. But it was one thing to give Moses unlimited power to transform a deserted sandbar like Jones Beach and another to allow him to extend it over previously inhabited regions. Moses's expressways tore the guts out of neighborhoods and his urban renewal projects forced a quarter of a million New Yorkers out of their homes...