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How We Got to Coney Island
Brian J. Cudahy
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Description for How We Got to Coney Island
Hardback. Transportation historian Brian Cudahy shows how a unique blend of enterprises emerged in the final years of the 19th century to connect Coney Island with the independent municipality of Brooklyn, with New York City and, ultimately, with the rest of the world. Num Pages: 346 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; WG; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 30. Weight in Grams: 711.
How We Got to Coney Island is the definitive history of mass transportation in Brooklyn. Covering 150 years of extraordinary growth, Cudahy tells the complete story of the trolleys, street cars, steamboats, and railways that helped create New York’s largest borough---and the remarkable system that grew to connect the world’s most famous seaside resort with Brooklyn, New York City across the river, and, ultimately, the rest of the world. Includes tables, charts, photographs, and maps.
How We Got to Coney Island is the definitive history of mass transportation in Brooklyn. Covering 150 years of extraordinary growth, Cudahy tells the complete story of the trolleys, street cars, steamboats, and railways that helped create New York’s largest borough---and the remarkable system that grew to connect the world’s most famous seaside resort with Brooklyn, New York City across the river, and, ultimately, the rest of the world. Includes tables, charts, photographs, and maps.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
Number of Pages
346
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823222087
SKU
V9780823222087
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About Brian J. Cudahy
Brian J. Cudahy’s books include Around Manhattan Island: And Other Maritime Tales of New York and A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York’s Underground Railways (both Fordham). He lives in Bluffton, SC.
Reviews for How We Got to Coney Island
"This is an example of a familiar and decidedly old-fashioned genre of transport history. It is primarily an examination of the business politics of railway development and amalgamation in Brooklyn and adjoining districts since the mid-nineteenth century" -The Journal of Transport History