Daniel M. Hendrick

Jamaica Bay (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For more than two centuries after the Dutch settled its meandering shores, Jamaica Bay was little more than a watery expanse broken by small islands and a handful of mills. Rapid growth after the Civil War transformed the bay into a microcosm of a developing nation, as meadows gave way to houses and factories, and giant steamers and locomotives appeared. Plans to create the world's largest deepwater port here were never realized, yet Jamaica Bay did emerge as a hub for aviation; the first successful transatlantic flight departed over the bay,followed by millions of flights that have taken off from John F. Kennedy International Airport ever since. Through historic photographs, Jamaica Bay illustrates the bay's transformation into a shellfishing haven, a recreational playground with hotels and casinos, and now the focus of a longterm environmental rehabilitation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439618028
• Artikelnr.: 40009263

Autorenporträt

Daniel M. Hendrick is editor in chief of the Queens Chronicle, Queens's largest community newspaper. His writing, which has been recognized for excellence by the New York Press Association and Society of Professional Journalists, has appeared in the New York Times, Newsday, Greenwich Time, E: The Environmental Magazine, and other publications.