How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County - Softcover

Cudahy, Brian J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823222098 ISBN 13: 9780823222094

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

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)

About this edition

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0823222098
• ISBN 13: 9780823222094
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 346