No one else saw what he saw—including, most significantly, Fiorello LaGuardia, who was elected to his first term as mayor in 1933. When, shortly after the election, LaGuardia invited Moses to join his administration, their discussions centered on parks, not public authorities. Moses told the Mayor-elect that he would be interested in taking over the city parks—but only under certain conditions.
By precept, if not by preachment —for example, by having his Board of Aldermen hold up street-closing permits for the construction of Pennsylvania Station until the railroad awarded the excavation contract to a firm in which he had a hidden financial interest—he showed Tammany that there were safer ways of making money from public works.
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