Not only is it unlikely to be true (bloomberg.com/news/articles/…) it is completely irrelevant. The idea that two highways with low bridges make the entire system racist, is silly.
In the mid 20s, when the Southern State was built, the minority population of NYC was tiny. If anything, it kept immigrants away.
By the end of 1970s, when I was a small kid in Queens, we took the bus to the beach with all races and creeds.
And I don't get me wrong, I hate Robert Moses.

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