Tag: NYC
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A different kind of engineer: Boss Tweed
“It’s hard not to admire the skill behind Tweed’s system … The Tweed ring at its height was an engineering marvel, strong and solid, strategically deployed to control key power points: the courts, the legislature, the treasury and the ballot box. Its frauds had a grandeur of scale and an elegance of structure: money-laundering, profit…
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“Look around you and paint what you see. Forget the Beaux-Arts and the models and render the intense life which surrounds you and be assured that the Brooklyn Bridge is worth the Colosseum of Rome and that modern America is as fine as the bric-a-brac of antiquity.”
FREDERICK CHILDE HASSAM American Painter http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hass/hd_hass.htm http://www.frederickhassam.org/biography.html
Author Adrienne Morris 