Brian J Cudahy: 2 books
A Century of Subways
Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The transit historian and author of Under the Sidewalks of New York delivers a lively and authoritative history of New York City’s fabled subway.
On the afternoon of October 27, 1904, ordinary New Yorkers descended beneath the sidewalks for the first time to ride the electric-powered trains...
How We Got to Coney Island
The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
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 York’s largest borough---and the remarkable system that...