NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) - The state Senate has approved legislation that would remove the late New York public works builder Robert Moses’ name from a parkway along the Niagara River.
The bill’s passage Tuesday came a week after Niagara County legislators recommended that Robert Moses State Parkway be changed to Niagara Scenic Parkway. The legislation’s sponsor, Republican Sen. Robert Ortt of North Tonawanda, and county lawmakers say Moses’ name means little to tourists visiting Niagara Falls and a change would boost tourism.
Originally named the Niagara Parkway when it opened in the early 1960s, the 18-mile highway was later renamed for Moses, the planner of some of the state’s biggest highway and infrastructure projects for four decades starting in the 1930s. He died in 1981.
The bill doesn’t have a sponsor in the Assembly.
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