The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 fundamentally transformed the East River and defined New York as we know it today. Radical public policy decisions and high-stakes investment made the East River into an infrastructural waterway that enabled the rapid industrial, population, and cultural boom on its eastern shore—today's Brooklyn and Queens.
Join this year's Gardiner Fellow, Andrea Marpillero-Colomina, as she presents selections from her research findings in the New-York Historical collections, in conversation with Michael Ryan, Vice President and SueAnn Weinberg Director of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library.
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Erie and the East: How Did the Canal Transform the River?
58 minutes
