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Waterfront Manhattan: From Henry Hudson to the High Line

10 Ratings

3.3

Duration
7H 44min
Language
English
Format
Category

Non-fiction

For hundreds of years, the shorefront of Manhattan Island served as the country's center of trade, shipping, and commerce. With its maritime links across the oceans, along the Atlantic coast, and inland to the Midwest and New England, Manhattan became a global city and home to the world's busiest port. It was a world of docks, ships, tugboats, and ferries, filled with cargo and freight, a place where millions of immigrants entered the Promised Land.

In Waterfront Manhattan, Kurt C. Schlichting tells the story of the Manhattan waterfront as a struggle between public and private control of New York's priceless asset. Nature provided New York with a sheltered harbor but presented the city with a challenge: to find the necessary capital to build and expand the maritime infrastructure. From colonial times until after the Civil War, the city ceded control of the waterfront to private interests, excluding the public entirely and sparking a battle between shipping companies, the railroads, and ferries for access to the waterfront.

Waterfront Manhattan is a wide–ranging history that will dazzle anyone who is fascinated by New York.

© 2019 Tantor Media (Audiobook): 9781977345011

Release date

Audiobook: February 12, 2019

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