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How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County | 
 enlarge | Author: Brian Cudahy
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $45.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2656801
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 346
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 082322208X
Dewey Decimal Number: 388.40974723
EAN: 9780823222087
ASIN: 082322208X
Publication Date: January 1, 2002
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Product 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 Yorks largest borough---and the remarkable system that grew to connect the worlds 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.
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I liked it February 14, 2007
OK I am a native Brooklynite but I learned a lot about how mass transit in Brooklyn evolved. Answered several questions I had about what some routes went the way that they did. Book could have a few more maps for my taste. An enjoyable read!
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know July 6, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Did you ever sit down with an elderly relative who is in a chatty mood, and suddenly realize how ignorant you were about your own family history? Finally learning how a particular "aunt", whom you've heard about a million times, is related to you? That's what reading Cudahy's book about the development of mass transit on Coney Island is like.
For example, I'd taken the "Culver" train many times without realizing that the destination had no street are area by that name, and only learned from this book that Andrew Culver developed one of the original rail lines across Brooklyn.
If you're a current or former Brooklynite, there are many "aha!" moments in this book, and a great explanation of how the development of Coney Island for recreation is what led to the development of mass transit across the borough.
This is a "niche" book, for those interested in Brooklyn history and for those interested in trains, and if you are looking for human interest, i.e., for a book about how the waves of immigrants have changed Brooklyn many times over, you should look elsewhere. The only people this book focuses on are the industrialists who left their imprint on Brooklyn by developing and redeveloping its transportation. It does that amazingly well. Make sure you really do want to hear these old stories.
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