New York State History Copyright (c) 2013 Fordham University All rights reserved. http://fordham.bepress.com/nysh Recent documents in New York State History en-us Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:15:14 PDT 3600 How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County http://fordham.bepress.com/nysh/2 http://fordham.bepress.com/nysh/2 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:06:40 PDT 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.

]]> Brian Cudahy Westchester: The American Suburb http://fordham.bepress.com/nysh/1 http://fordham.bepress.com/nysh/1 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:45:27 PST Today, more than half of Americans live in suburbs. A far cry from the “crabgrass frontier” of modest bedroom communities built for urban strivers, today’s sprawling, self-contained suburbs define our cultural landscape.

This fascinating book chronicles—in word and images—the history, development, and character of suburban America with an illuminating account of one of its signature places: Westchester, New York.

Designed as a companion to a major exhibition at The Hudson River Museum, the book brings together original essays by leading historians and other experts, and a rich selection of photographs, paintings, maps, ephemera, and other images that track more than century of growth, development, and change.

The essays explore key themes that run through Westchester’s legacy: the new transportation grids that make all suburbs possible, the suburban house as a new focal point for family life, the creation of a new domesticity, consumerism and community, architecture and nature. Also covered is the representation of suburban life in film, literature, art, photography, and the media.

From Washington Irving’s Sunnyside home built in 1830 to the virtual New Rochelle home of The Dick Van Dyke Show’s Rob and Laura Petrie, Westchester has been the iconic American suburb—loved and hated, desired and abandoned. Like the exhibition whose name it shares, this book is not just a testimony to a time gone by—but a vivid and provocative encounter with the porches, patios, and parkways that define the American dream.

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