washington square park

Sometimes listed as Ruth E. Budinoff.

Biography

Robert Moses was born to Emanuel Moses, a department-store owner, and Bella Silverman Moses, on December 18, 1888. He grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, and then on East 46th Street in Manhattan. He was accepted to Yale University at the age of 17, and he graduated in 1909. Subsequently, he received a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 1914. In 1913, he began working for the Municipal Research Bureau, a research and advisory arm for the nationwide municipal government reform movement.

Sometimes listed as Jane Butzner Jacobs.