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Dimanche 1 Kassandra Dimanche HUSV 2030-C01 U.S. History from 1865 to the Present Dr. Gupta 12/15/23 M6: Final Paper Words: 1,000

Dimanche 2 The cemetery that I researched was the Greenwood cemetery and the person that I research who died and was buried there is named Charles Feltman. He was born in Germany in 1841 and moved to Brooklyn in his early twenties. He came here for a better life when its was considered the second significant European immigrations wave from the 1860s-1890s. Charles Feldman came to American when he was 20 years in 1861 when the Civil War was just starting and many immigrants were looking for places to settle. The immigrants were fleeing famine, religious per- secution. Over 20 million, came here for a better life in that time. Charles Feltman came here from Germany and was in the restaurant business. What's very important at the time was that as these immigrants were coming in the parkways of the 19th century were being developed as link- ages connecting jobs, parks, together as a means of increasing urbanization and business. In September, 1870, Eastern parkway was built to be an interconnection parkway for the New York City area. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmstead in 1866 (Crown Heights, 2016). It's a 2.2 mile stretch of big trees, sidewalks from Ralph Ave to Grand Army plaza. Its a scenic feature and remains a major landmark in Crown Heights. The next parkway, Ocean parkway, was de- signed in 1868 and built in 1876 to act a joint way from Prospect Park to Coney Island where Charles Feltman and his German family moved to start a business a few blocks away from on Surf Ave (Crown Heights, 2016). In the fall of 1883, The Brooklyn Bridge was completed and had a huge impact on America. Firstly, its provided infrastructure for transportation in that it connected different points of the city. Secondly the population of Brooklyn increased dramati- cally in the first year. The bridge also connected people to the higher paying jobs in the city and they provided efficient movement of goods and services and it showed the forward thinking dur- ing the Industrial Revolution. Next, luckily for Feltman, he started a hot dog business from his entrepreneurial spirit. Being from Frankfurt, Germany, Feltman open the bakery and earned a

Dimanche 3 decent living delivering pies and hot dogs to the whole Coney Island. Feltman used this idea to sell food to beachgoers who came from Eastern Parkway and Ocean Parkway who can eat a hot with having silverware and plates to his customers. He called his hot dogs “red hot” and he served his food from a machine. He built the Feltman’s Ocean Pavillon that once hosted the US President William Howard Taft (Roosevelt House, 2013). He had a staff worker who named Nathan Handwerker left to start his own business in closer tot the amusement park that he heard was starting that had a cyclone ride attached to it. Charles Feltman died in 1910 but the family continued running the business which was doing very well. During the 1920 economic boom, Nathan felt that traveling the whole beach selling hot dogs was too time consuming he felt that he wanted to have one stop shop at this new upcoming park that was open up. Nathan’s Famous started shortly thereafter, two blocks away from Feltman’s Ocean Pavillon. The park that was opening up was called Coney Island park marked by a a special ride called the Cyclone. In Sep- tember 12, 1927, the Cyclone was a wooden roller coaster built in Coney's Island amusement park first opened on this date in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn facing the Atlantic Ocean. Prominent figures in this era included Sandy Koufax in 1935 who started as a left-handed pitched for the Brooklyn Dodgers in Ebbets Field, Borough park. Lastly, the Feltman family sold their business in 1940’s after the rocky Great Depression and World War II. The Brooklyn Army Terminal was built. It constituted warehouses, piers, docks, offices and cargo loading located in Sunset Park between 58th and 63rd streets. This area was big import and export hub for commerce into the Brooklyn Borough. I wasn't aware of this but there many "Hoovervilles" all over NYC. Brooklyn had 2 or 3 and the Red Hook Hooverville was one of the largest New York. These Hoovervilles basically were desperate people that were evicted and built squatter camps creating these villages called Hoovervilles in December, 1932. Lastly, there

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