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722 Miles

The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York
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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 Independent Subway line (IND) 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 foreword explaining that now, after a century, "we can see more clearly than ever that this rapid transit system is among the twentieth century's greatest urban achievements."
Clifton Hood is an assistant professor of history at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. He was formerly a curator of the LaGuardia Archives at LaGuardia College, City University of New York.
Preface Introduction Part I: The Merchants and the Subway Prologue: Abram S. Hewitt 1. The Great City 2. Making Government Safe for Business 3. William Barclay Parsons and the Construction of the IRT 4. The Subway and the City 5. Good-bye to the Patricians Part II: The Politicians and the Subway 6. The Dual Contracts 7. Across the East River 8. John F. Hylan and the IND 9. The People's Subway, the Nickel Fare, and Unification 10. The Revolt against Politics Epilogue: The Kitchen Debate Acknowledgments Notes Index
"A clear, perceptive and carefully researched study of this engineering feat and the ways in which the subway led to an expansion of the metropolitan area." - Publishers Weekly "One of the best urban-transportation histories to come down the tracks in a long time." - The Sciences"
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