North Shore barons privately owned virtually the entire Long Island shoreline by 1900

Evidence

Every foot of the two commas of land east of Cold Spring—Lloyd Neck and Eatons Neck—was owned by barons. Huntington Township, just beyond them, contained forty-eight miles of shoreline; 1,250 feet of it were open to the public. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 667

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle on how public recreation commons can be enclosed wholesale by a small landowning class.
• XREF: connects to: Long Island’s North Shore was a colony of concentrated industrial-era wealth — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 654; North Shore barons hoarded land mainly to keep the public physically away — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 659; Long Island’s shoreline was effectively closed to ordinary New Yorkers by 1900 — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 668

Broader Connections

• Long Island’s shoreline was effectively closed to ordinary New Yorkers by 1900 #corroborates (0.95) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 668