The Forgotten Borough : : Staten Island and the Subway / / Kenneth M. Gold.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Gold, Kenneth M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 22 b&w figures

What sets Staten Island apart from the rest of New York City? The island’s identity has in part been defined in opposition to the city, its physical and cultural differences, and the perception of neglect by city government. It has long been whiter, wealthier, less populated, and more politically co...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• INTRODUCTION
• PART I CONSOLIDATION AND ITS AFTERMATH
• CHAPTER 1 SETTING THE STAGE Staten Island in the Late Nineteenth Century
• CHAPTER 2 JOINING THE CITY Staten Island and the Consolidation of Greater New York
• CHAPTER 3 ENVISIONING THE FUTURE What Consolidation Would Bring to Staten Island, 1890– 1909
• PART II A SUBWAY FOR GROWTH
• CHAPTER 4 HITCHING A RIDE Early Efforts to Tunnel to Staten Island, 1900– 1909
• CHAPTER 5 LEAVING THE STATION The Dual Contracts and Aftermath, 1909– 1919
• CHAPTER 6 PLANNING THE REGION The Hylan Tunnel and the Politics of Commerce, 1920– 1922
• CHAPTER 7 GETTING THE SHAFT The Demise of the Hylan Tunnel, 1922– 1925
• PART III SUBWAY PERSISTENCE AND AUTOMOBILE EMERGENCE
• CHAPTER 8 DRIVING THE NARROWS New Options for Connection, 1925– 1932
• CHAPTER 9 FACING THE COMPETITION Last Gasps for a Subway and a Tunnel, 1933– 1945
• CHAPTER 10 SPANNING THE NARROWS The Triumph of the Verrazzano Bridge, 1945– 1964
• CHAPTER 11 ASSESSING THE DISCONNECT What the Distance Wrought
• CONCLUSION
• EPILOGUE What the Bridge Wrought
• A NOTE ON STATEN ISLAND’S HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS
• SOURCE ABBREVIATIONS
• NOTES
• INDEX