Forgotten Borough - Staten Island and the Subway

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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Consolidation and Its Aftermath
1. Setting the Stage: Staten Island in the Late Nineteenth Century
2. Joining the City: Staten Island and the Consolidation of New York, 1898
3. Envisioning the Future: What Consolidation Would Bring to Staten Island, 1890–1909
Part II: A Subway for Growth
4. Hitching a Ride: Early Efforts to Tunnel to Staten Island, 1900–1909
5. Leaving the Station: The Dual Contracts and Aftermath, 1909–1919
6. Planning the Region: The Hylan Tunnel and the Politics of Commerce, 1920–1923
7. Getting the Shaft: The Demise of the Hylan Tunnel, 1922–1925
Part III: Subway Persistence and Automobile Emergence
8. Driving the Narrows: New Options for Connection, 1925–1932
9. Facing the Competition: Last Gasps for a Subway and a Tunnel, 1933–1945
10. Spanning the Narrows: The Triumph of the Verrazano Bridge, 1945–1964
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

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth M. Gold
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2023
• EAN: 9780231208611
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20861-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning, TRANSPORTATION / Public Transportation, Urban & municipal planning, Local History, History of the Americas, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, Transport planning and policy, Buses, trams and commercial vehicles: general interest, US Northeast: Mid-Atlantic States, Transport planning & policy, Buses, trams & commercial vehicles: general interest, history; Staten Island