CHAPTER 10 SPANNING THE NARROWS The Triumph of the Verrazzano Bridge, 1945– 1964

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. ABBREVIATIONS xi
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART I CONSOLIDATION AND ITS AFTERMATH
7. CHAPTER 1 SETTING THE STAGE Staten Island in the Late Nineteenth Century 11
8. CHAPTER 2 JOINING THE CITY Staten Island and the Consolidation of Greater New York 29
9. CHAPTER 3 ENVISIONING THE FUTURE What Consolidation Would Bring to Staten Island, 1890– 1909 49
10. PART II A SUBWAY FOR GROWTH
11. CHAPTER 4 HITCHING A RIDE Early Efforts to Tunnel to Staten Island, 1900– 1909 61
12. CHAPTER 5 LEAVING THE STATION The Dual Contracts and Aftermath, 1909– 1919 81
13. CHAPTER 6 PLANNING THE REGION The Hylan Tunnel and the Politics of Commerce, 1920– 1922 108
14. CHAPTER 7 GETTING THE SHAFT The Demise of the Hylan Tunnel, 1922– 1925 133
15. PART III SUBWAY PERSISTENCE AND AUTOMOBILE EMERGENCE
16. CHAPTER 8 DRIVING THE NARROWS New Options for Connection, 1925– 1932 153
17. CHAPTER 9 FACING THE COMPETITION Last Gasps for a Subway and a Tunnel, 1933– 1945 175
18. CHAPTER 10 SPANNING THE NARROWS The Triumph of the Verrazzano Bridge, 1945– 1964 200
19. CHAPTER 11 ASSESSING THE DISCONNECT What the Distance Wrought 225
20. CONCLUSION 267
21. EPILOGUE What the Bridge Wrought 271
22. A NOTE ON STATEN ISLAND’S HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS 275
23. SOURCE ABBREVIATIONS 279
24. NOTES 281
25. INDEX 355