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Born in Brooklyn, New York, Brian Cudahy is one of the country's leading waterway and transportation historians.
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Books by Brian J. Cudahy

Under the Sidewalks of New York: The Story of the Greatest Subway System in the World
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3.71 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1979 — 9 editions

Box Boats: How Container Ships Changed the World
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3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions

Good Old Coney Island: A Sentimental Journey into the Past
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3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1957 — 12 editions

A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways
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3.13 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions

Rails Under the Mighty Hudson: The Story of the Hudson Tubes, the Pennsylvania Tunnels, and Manhattan Transfer
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3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions

How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions

Change at Park Street Under
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3.75 avg rating — 8 r

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About the Author

Brian Cudahy has served as the director of the office of transit management with the Department of Transportation. He writes on Urban Architecture, focusing on the historical aspects of transit systems. In Under the Sidewalks of New York: The Story of the World's Greatest Subway System, he show more chronicled the development of the subway and provided a chronological overview of rapid transit. He has also written histories of the Boston subway, Hudson tubes, Pennsylvania railroad tunnels, and the Chicago rapid transit system. (Bowker Author Biography)show less

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Box Boats is a technical/financial/general history of the first 50 years of the now ubiquitous container ship. The book opens with a chapter that outlines the history of U.S. shipping prior to 1956. The focus of the book then shifts to the development and deployment of Ideal X, the first container ship, the man behind her, Malcom McLean, and the rise of

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Cudahy, Wisconsin

City in Wisconsin, United States

Cudahy () is a city in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 18,204 at the 2020 census. A suburb south of Milwaukee along the shore of Lake Michigan, it is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area.

History

Originally known as the Buckhorn Settlement, it was renamed in the late 1800s when Patrick Cudahy^[7] purchased 700 acres (280 ha) of land in the Town of Lake, two miles (three kilometers) from the Milwaukee city limits, to build his meatpacking plant. The first village president was elected in 1895, and by 1906 Cudahy was incorporated as a city with a population of 2,556.^[8]

Geography

Cudahy is located at 42°56′54″N87°51′40″W / 42.94833°N 87.86111°W / 42.94833; -87.86111 (42.948416, −87.861010).^[9] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.76 square miles (12.3 km²), all of it land.^[10] The city is next door to the Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport.