The waterfront was the key to New York City's growth and
prosperity. 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. In the second half of the
nineteenth century, the City of New York regained control of the
waterfront, but a whirlwind of forces beyond the control of either
public or private interests-technological change in the form of the
shipping container and the jet airplane-devastated the city's
maritime world. The city slowly and painfully recovered.
Visionaries reimagined the waterfront, and today the island is
almost completely surrounded by parkland, the world of piers and
longshoremen gone, replaced by luxury housing and tourist
attractions. Waterfront Manhattan is a wide-ranging history that
will dazzle anyone who is fascinated by New York.
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