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

by Brian J. Cudahy

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9780823222087
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	01/01/2002
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

BRIAN J. CUDAHY's books include Around Manhattan Island: And Other Maritime Tales ofNew York and A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways (both Fordham). He lives in Bluffton, SC.

Editorial Reviews

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