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The forgotten borough : Staten Island and the subway / Kenneth M. Gold.

Staten Island and the subway

Gold, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Mark) , 1966-

New York : Columbia University Press , [2023]

ix, 370 p. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Consolidation and Its Aftermath -- Setting the Stage: Staten Island in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Joining the City: Staten Island and the 1898 Consolidation of New York -- Envisioning the Future: What Consolidation Would Bring to Staten Island, 1890-1909 -- Part II: A Subway for Growth -- Hitching a Ride: Early Efforts to Tunnel to Staten Island, 1900-1909 -- Leaving the Station: the Dual Contracts and Aftermath, 1909-1919 -- Planning the Region: The Hylan Tunnel and the Politics of Commerce, 1920-1923 -- Getting the Shaft, : the The Demise of the Hylan Tunnel, 1922-1925 -- Part III: Subway Persistence and Automobile Emergence -- Driving the Narrows: New Options for Connection, 1925-1932 -- Facing the Competition: Last Gasps for a Subway and a Tunnel, 1933-1945 -- Spanning the Narrows: The Triumph of the Verrazano Bridge, 1945-1964 -- Assessing the Disconnect: What the Distance Wrought -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: What the Bridge Wrought.

"Why is Staten Island distinct among the boroughs? Since the incorporation at the beginning of the twentieth century, it has been called the "Forgotten Borough." For its inhabitants, the phrase suggests its perceived neglect by city officials, coupled with a resentment for being remembered to its detriment as a site for illness and refuse. Other New Yorkers employed the label to reflect the social and cultural differences and physical distance between Manhattan and Staten Island. It is forgotten because it is neither relatively near nor like the other four boroughs. At the heart of this book by historian Kenneth Gold is why and how Staten Island evolved differently from the other boroughs, and why it was forgotten. The answer is grounded in transportation developments. Gold argues that Staten Island's failure to become linked to the New York City subway system was an omission crucial to forging its growth and identity as the "other" borough of New York. The Forgotten Borough explores Staten Island's relationship with New York City, beginning when it contemplated joining in 1890 to when it finally was connected to the city with the opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in 1964. It conveys how these two fundamental characteristics of Staten Island-difference and distance-are historically interwoven and determined. It is far too easy to essentialize the borough's otherness when for much of its pre-twentieth century history Staten Island mirrored its neighboring boroughs-from its burgeoning industry to its immigrant population. But when Staten Islanders decided to become a part of Greater New York, they discovered that boroughhood did not quite lead to the benefits-particularly in transportation-that its boosters envisioned. After 1900, the borough's relative distance from its neighbors grew as the subway system bound together Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. The central thesis of this book is that those two factors shaped its subsequent development and identity so that by 1964 Staten Island generally appeared distinct from the four other boroughs for being whiter, wealthier, less populated, and more politically conservative"-- Provided by publisher.

Local transit, Social aspects, New York (State), New York, History, 20th century.
Urban transportation, New York (State), New York, History, 20th century.
Subways, Social aspects, New York (State), New York, History, 20th century.
Staten Island (New York, N.Y.), History, 20th century.
New York (N.Y.), History, 20th century.
Staten Island (New York, N.Y.), Politics and government, 20th century.
New York (N.Y.), Politics and government, 20th century.

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