Robert Caro recalls that, during Robert Moses's period of power, people waited at his Triborough Bridge Authority office for decisions and sought things from him.

“His office was still up at the Triborough Bridge Authority. When he was in power, I interviewed him in that office several times.”

“You felt his power. You felt outside there were all these people waiting for his decisions, sitting around waiting for his decisions.”

“W- as soon as I finished, the secretary would come in with a list of telephone calls of people who had called asking for, you know, wanting, uh, wanting something from him while I was talking to him, right?”