Long Island’s shoreline was effectively closed to ordinary New Yorkers by 1900

Evidence

Like those on the South Shore, then, the beaches on the North Shore of Long Island had been effectively closed to city residents. A New Yorker who wanted to take his family for a swim on Long Island could head only for Long Beach on the South Shore, tedious to reach because of inadequate roads and so crowded that it seemed like an extension of the filthy, incredibly jammed Coney Island beach in Brooklyn. The North Shore stood impregnable against the importunings of the masses. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 668

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the lawn-and-garden enclosure theme from Caro’s South Shore chapters and the public-bathing push in One Square Inch of Silence’s city-noise framing. — connects to: Isolated baymen harbored hostile ethnic stereotypes of New Yorkers — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 646; Long Island’s North Shore robber barons staged parties of legendary extravagance — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 657; North Shore barons privately owned virtually the entire Long Island shoreline by 1900 — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 667 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Both Long Island shores excluded ordinary New Yorkers from beach access by 1930. #corroborates (0.92) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 685
• Long Island’s North Shore was a colony of concentrated industrial-era wealth #expands (0.75) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 654