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

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

Brian J. Cudahy
$40.00
Publication Date: January 1st, 2002
Publisher:
Fordham University Press
ISBN:
9780823222094
Pages:
346
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Description

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 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.