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How We Got to Coney Island THE DEVELOPMENT OF MASS TRANSPORTATION IN BROOKLYN AND KINGS COUNTY BRIAN J. CUDAHY Fordham University Press New York 2002 Copyright  2002 by Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means— electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cudahy, Brian J. How we got to Coney Island : the development of mass transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County / Brian J. Cudahy. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8232-2208-X (cloth)—ISBN 0-8232-2209-8 (pbk.) 1. Local transit—New York Metropolitan Area—History. 2. Transportation—New York Metropolitan Area—History. 3. Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)—History. I. Title. HE4491.N65 C8 2002 388.4⬘09747⬘23—dc21 2002009084 Printed in the United States of America 02 03 04 05 06 5 4 3 2 1 First Edition ...

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