‘Five Cents to Dreamland’: Transit Museum opens exhibit on transit to Coney Island
June 30, 2016 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
This 1896 photo titled “A Holiday Crowd Bound for Coney Island, Ulmer Park and Bath Beach,” shows how the trolley cars of that era were barely able to accommodate the huge crowds bound for the seashore. Photos courtesy of New York Transit Museum
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From horse-drawn streetcars, steamboats and railroads to the buses and subways of today, mass transportation has played a pivotal role in Coney Island’s development from a secluded vacation spot to a world-famous amusement area.