Essay About Brooklyn Heights And New York

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Transportation
Steamboats
Brooklyn Heights (1819), first American suburb to steamboat ferry
Robert Fulton, perfected the steamboat, 1815, Clairmont
Cornelius Vanderbilt, steamboat, and railroad baron
Agriculture for market
Grain
80% of the population
Whaling
Fishing/ Shellfishing
Population
1790: 32,454 (3224 in brookhaven)
NYC 1790: 33,111
Kings: 4,495
1860: 100,666 (9,923 in Brookhaven)
NYC: 813,669
Kings: 279,122
Irish, Scottish/English (pre-ellis island), Germans (1848), 2nd wave of Dutch 1950s
Brooklyn, c.1819- Steady growth but non-waterfront areas maintain rural identity (especially Flatbush, Bedford)
New York/Brooklyn, 1851: the city connections with LI grow as the city grows
Industries
Horse Dung
In the 1850s, 100,000 to 200,000 horses lived in the city. A typical horse produced from 22 of manure and about a quart of urine a day
Problem Solved: Manure was scooped up and given to LI farmers for fertilizer
Oysters
NYs most popular 19th century snack
Great South Bay (especially around Blue Point) became the center of oyster industry, 1850s
Cordwood
Enormous numbers of hickory and oak trees in Suffolk County supply NYC for fuel- by 1815, 200,000 cords of wood (a cord of wood is 4 x 4 x 8 long)
Decimates the Pine Barrens
WHALING: key part of the 19th Century economy
Muti-ethnic crews
Made enormous $$$$ for Cold Spring Harbor and Sag Harbor, and, to lesser degrees, Greenport and Southampton
Starts on shorebut gradually, boats go out deeper and deeper (eventually, half a world away)
Fashion
Household Objects
Hard Job/hard labor
Gross- aweful smells, bloody
LIRR: