4. The Brooklyn Dodgers Leaving NYC

Ebbets Field
Ebbets Field in its glory days, where the Brooklyn Dodgers played. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Here’s one thing we didn’t know we could blame on Mr. Moses: he caused the Brooklyn Dodgers to leave New York City. The Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley wanted to relocate out of Ebbets Field and one of the locations he had in mind was the current location of the Barclays Center. Robert Moses did not want a sports arena there, because he had a parking lot planned for that location.

This one wasn’t completely Moses’ fault, because the press and the public was also generally against the idea of the team buying that location. He suggested building a stadium in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens but the Dodgers did not want to lose their Brooklyn identity so, naturally, they moved to Los Angeles.