{"id":2293,"date":"2007-05-07T10:18:32","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T18:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/daniel_doctoroff_squirms.html"},"modified":"2007-05-07T10:18:32","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T18:18:32","slug":"daniel_doctorof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/daniel_doctorof.html","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Doctoroff Squirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To some, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/06\/nyregion\/thecity\/06hist.html?ex=1336104000&#038;en=5123cb2614881ec2&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">&#8220;master builder&#8221; remains as dirty sounding as ever<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The question trails Robert Caro like a fly, buzzing in his ear. Over and over, at cocktail parties and museum receptions in the past few years, he hears variations on the same query.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Doesn&#8217;t New York need a new master builder?&#8221; people ask. &#8220;Don&#8217;t we need a new Robert Moses?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Caro, 71, sits in his spare writer&#8217;s aerie high in a Midtown office building, an owlish man with a faint smile. His answer has the virtue of concision:<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe we really need to be wondering if New York just needs a new Robert Caro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To some, &#8220;master builder&#8221; remains as dirty sounding as ever: The question trails Robert Caro like a fly, buzzing in his ear. Over and over, at cocktail parties and museum receptions in the past few years, he hears variations on the same query. &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t New York need a new master builder?&#8221; people ask. &#8220;Don&#8217;t we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}