
myworldtravel.weebly.com The Scrambler Ride At Nellie Bly Amusement Park In Coney Island Brooklyn New York History Nellie Bly Park 1.056 acres This Parks property honors Nellie Bly (1867-1922). She was the pioneering female reporter who went undercover to investigate injustice, corruption, and crime. In 1889, she achieved international fame by circumnavigating the earth in 72 days. Born Elizabeth Cochrane near Ford City, Pennsylvania, the young woman ventured into journalism in 1885 at Dispatch, a Pittsburgh newspaper. By the late 1880s, she secured a position writing for New York World. There, under the by-line Nellie Bly, she innovated the practice of investigative reporting. Throwing herself into the matters she investigated, this new approach to journalism brought her on an early diving expedition, a hot air balloon journey, an undercover mission in a mental asylum, and a whirlwind trip around the world. In 1888, Nellie Bly got herself committed to the mental hospital on Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island), to investigate and report on the conditions at the facility. The next year, she made a frantic trip around the world, with the aim of beating the record set by Jules Vernes fictional character Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days. Blys steamboat trip churned out worldwide publicity, and made her an American heroine. In 1890, she wrote a book chronicling her 72 day, 6 hour, and 11 minute journey, Around the World in Seventy-two Days. Nellie Bly had <b>...</b>
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