722 miles : the building of the subways and how they transformed New York /

"The building of the New York City subway system was an epic struggle, and not just for engineering reasons." "As New York grew in importance throughout the nineteenth century, geography imposed physical limits on the city. Manhattan was a narrow and crowded island, with a huge popula...

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Main Author:	Hood, Clifton
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Simon & Schuster, [1993]
Subjects:	Subways > New York (State) > New York. Urbanization > New York (State) > New York. Métros > New York (État) > New York. Urbanisation > New York (État) > New York. Subways. Urbanization. New York (State) > New York. Underground railways > History New York (N.Y.)