<p>The Robert Moses-designed expressway displaced Black families and neighborhoods for a stub of a freeway that ultimately stretched for less than two miles and does not connect to the rest of the interstate system. </p>
In “Straight Line Crazy,” by David Hare, Moses sometimes tiptoes toward anti-hero status lawbreaking, rude, bullying, quietly racist, vocally sexist but gripped by a democratic vision for his grand building plans.