722 Miles The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York

Name: 722 Miles The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York
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ISBN: 9780801880544

ISBN-10: 0801880548

ISBN-13: 9780801880544

Edition: 2004

Authors: Clifton Hood

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When it first opened on October 27, 1904, the New York City subway ran twenty-two miles from City Hall to 145th Street and Lenox Avenue -- the longest stretch ever built at one time. From that initial route through the completion of the IND or Independent Subway line in the 1940s, the subway grew to cover 722 miles -- long enough to reach from New York to Chicago. In this definitive history, Clifton Hood traces the complex and fascinating story of the New York City subway system, one of the urban engineering marvels of the twentieth century. For the subway's centennial the author supplies a new foreward explaining that now, after a century, "we can see more clearly than ever that this rapid…

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List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 8/23/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




The merchants and the subway


Prologue




The great city



Making government safe for business



William Barclay Parsons and the construction of the IRT



The subway and the city



Good-bye to the patricians



The politicians and the subway



The dual contracts



Across the east river



John F. Hylan and the IND



The people's subway, the nickel fare, and unification



The revolt against politics


Epilogue : the kitchen debate