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The Forgotten Borough
Staten Island and the Subway
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Kenneth M. Gold
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
About this book
What sets Staten Island apart from the rest of New York City? Kenneth M. Gold argues that the lack of a subway connection has deeply shaped Staten Island’s history and identity. He chronicles decades of recurrent efforts to build a rail link, using this history to explore the borough’s fraught relationship with the city as a whole.
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Kenneth M. Gold is associate professor of educational studies at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, where he was the founding dean of the School of Education. He is the author of School’s In: The History of Summer Education in American Public Schools (2002) and coeditor of Discovering Staten Island: A 350th Anniversary Commemorative History (2011).
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Jeffrey A. Kroessler, author of Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb:
With this book, Kenneth M. Gold assures us that the Forgotten Borough shall be forgotten no more. He offers an insightful picture of Staten Island before the bridge and brings to light the hitherto little known story of the tunnel that never was. His book certainly enhances and complicates our understanding of twentieth century New York.
With this book, Kenneth M. Gold assures us that the Forgotten Borough shall be forgotten no more. He offers an insightful picture of Staten Island before the bridge and brings to light the hitherto little known story of the tunnel that never was. His book certainly enhances and complicates our understanding of twentieth century New York.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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ABBREVIATIONS
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INTRODUCTION
1 - PART I CONSOLIDATION AND ITS AFTERMATH
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CHAPTER 1 SETTING THE STAGE Staten Island in the Late Nineteenth Century
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CHAPTER 2 JOINING THE CITY Staten Island and the Consolidation of Greater New York
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CHAPTER 3 ENVISIONING THE FUTURE What Consolidation Would Bring to Staten Island, 1890– 1909
49 - PART II A SUBWAY FOR GROWTH
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CHAPTER 4 HITCHING A RIDE Early Efforts to Tunnel to Staten Island, 1900– 1909
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CHAPTER 5 LEAVING THE STATION The Dual Contracts and Aftermath, 1909– 1919
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CHAPTER 6 PLANNING THE REGION The Hylan Tunnel and the Politics of Commerce, 1920– 1922
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CHAPTER 7 GETTING THE SHAFT The Demise of the Hylan Tunnel, 1922– 1925
133 - PART III SUBWAY PERSISTENCE AND AUTOMOBILE EMERGENCE
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CHAPTER 8 DRIVING THE NARROWS New Options for Connection, 1925– 1932
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CHAPTER 9 FACING THE COMPETITION Last Gasps for a Subway and a Tunnel, 1933– 1945
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CHAPTER 10 SPANNING THE NARROWS The Triumph of the Verrazzano Bridge, 1945– 1964
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CHAPTER 11 ASSESSING THE DISCONNECT What the Distance Wrought
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CONCLUSION
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EPILOGUE What the Bridge Wrought
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A NOTE ON STATEN ISLAND’S HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS
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SOURCE ABBREVIATIONS
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NOTES
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INDEX
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April 4, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9780231557511
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22 b&w figures
eBook ISBN:
9780231557511
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Professional and scholarly;
