Brooklyn Streetcars

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Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738557618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
In the summer of 1854, the Brooklyn City Railroad opened four separate streetcar lines. The lines were introduced here several years before they were brought to larger cities, such as Baltimore, Boston, and Philadelphia, demonstrating the city's modernization and ingenuity. From its first introduction, Brooklyn had one of the nation's largest urban transit systems. With the advent of streetcars, the population in Brooklyn grew from about 139,000 to over 2.5 million by the time streetcars were retired. The street railway blended mobility with innovation, prompting one-third of New York City's population to call Brooklyn home.

Re- Inventing the Brooklyn- Queens Connector Streetcar Project (BQX)

Author: Bob Diamond
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387688243
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 722

Book Description
Rehabilitating the Moribund Brooklyn Queens Connector (BQX)

Brooklyn Streetcar Feasibility Study

Author: Barry Leonard
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437944817
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 63

Book Description
This report illustrates relevant streetcar components and experiences that are applicable to the Brooklyn, NY, Streetcar for the Red Hook district. Ten streetcar systems that are in operation, or beyond the planning phase, were considered as potential case studies for this report. These include: Portland; Charlotte; Seattle South Lake Union; San Francisco Historic; Tacoma Link; Tampa Ybor City; Tucson; Kenosha; Phila.; and Toronto. Summaries of these ten streetcar systems are included here. This case study focused on three systems: Portland; Seattle South Lake Union; and Phila. Girard Ave. Includes a summary on Lessons Learned. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.

Manhattan's Lost Streetcars

Author: Stephen L. Meyers
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738538846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
By the first quarter of the 20th century, Manhattan had well over 400 miles of streetcar trackage, an investment of several million dollars. Less than 50 years later, the rail system had completely vanished. Manhattan's Lost Streetcars chronicles the finance, political pressures, and advancing technology behind Gotham's streetcar networks from 1890 to 1935. The story ends with the dismantling of the system. Manhattan's Lost Streetcars recalls a bygone era when public rail transportation was aboveground and New Yorkers rode the Metropolitan Street Railway, the Green Lines, the Manhattan Bridge Three Cent Line, and the Brooklyn & North River line, among others. It features images of the independent rail companies and the individual lines that made up a vast public transportation network in Manhattan.

The Downtown Brooklyn Streetcar Loop Plan ca. 1989

Author: Bob Diamond
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329805348
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
Could be the time has come for a downtown Brooklyn streetcar loop, as a component of an overall Brooklyn- Queens waterfront streetcar system.

Streetcars of America

Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0747815259
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 65

Book Description
The handsome multicolored streetcar is a nostalgic icon of the some of the most romantic and heritage-rich locales in America, including San Francisco, New Orleans and Chicago, immortalised on stage and screen in classics including 'Meet Me In St Louis' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. Streetcars of America chronicles these vehicles from the earliest animal-drawn carriages to the height of their popularity in the 1920s, when there were more than 1,200 tram railways, to the turning of the tide in the mid-twentieth century when congestion and attacks from the automobile industry eventually pushed streetcars from most urban landscapes. But it also looks at the recent efforts to revive tram heritage that have led to vintage streetcars becoming a hip and environmentally-friendly daily commuter service, as well as tourist attraction, in more than thirty cities including Memphis and Washington DC.

New Haven Streetcars

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Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738512273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
The first street railway began operating in New York City in 1832. New Orleans inaugurated a street railway system in 1835, and most of the large American cities-Boston, Brooklyn, and Baltimore-were served by the end of the 1950s. In May 1861, more than a year before the nation's capital introduced this new mode of transit, the forty thousand residents of New Haven were furnished with local rail transportation. New Haven's population more than quadrupled between 1861 and 1948, and the city became Connecticut's largest manufacturing center. Street railways made it possible to reach both residential and manufacturing areas. New Haven Streetcars illustrates the essential role played by streetcars in the transformation of the city, with images from each of the six groups of lines that served the New Haven area, including the Yale Bowl open cars, the universal dump cars, the safety cars, and the horse-drawn cars.

How We Got to Coney Island

Author: Brian J. Cudahy
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 082322211X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 501

Book Description
A 150-year history of the planning, construction, and development of all forms of mass transportation in Brooklyn, New York. 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 grew to connect the world’s most famous seaside resort with Brooklyn, New York City across the river, and, ultimately, the rest of the world. Includes tables, charts, photographs, and maps. Praise for How We Got to Coney Island “This is an example of a familiar and decidedly old-fashioned genre of transport history. It is primarily an examination of the business politics of railway development and amalgamation in Brooklyn and adjoining districts since the mid-nineteenth century.” —The Journal of Transport History

From a Nickel to a Token

Author: Andrew J. Sparberg
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823261913
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
A fascinating micro-history of NYC’s subway system from LaGuardia’s public works achievements in 1940 to the creation of the MTA in 1968. In 1940, New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia realized an ambitious plan to modernize the city’s public transit. He eliminated streetcars, demolished old elevated lines, and unified the subway systems. From then on, the IRT, BMT, and IND became one system under public control. And by 1968, that system had transformed again, into the Metropolitan Transit Authority. From LaGuardia to Lindsay, mayors were desperate to appease voters, elected officials, transit management, and labor leaders. Meanwhile, the tumult of a changing America manifested in labor disputes, economic pressures, and civil rights protests. Though great efforts were made to keep prices down, the sacred nickel fare barrier was eventually broken. By 1968, a ride cost twenty cents. Featuring many photos never before published, From a Nickel to a Token deftly captures four decades and five boroughs of grit, chaos, egos, and emotions in the unending saga of New York’s subway system.

The Expanded Red Hook Streetcar Project | A Cure For Transportation Deserts

Author: Bob Diamond
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329689593
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 526

Book Description
A fresh look at an idea who's time has come. A modern waterfront streetcar line, interconnecting the transportation deserts of the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront, with each other, and the NYC mass transit system.