INTERBOROUGH RAPID TRANSIT
Author | : INTERBOROUGH RAPID TRANSIT. COMPANY |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
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ISBN | : 9781033120033 |
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Author | : INTERBOROUGH RAPID TRANSIT. COMPANY |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
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ISBN | : 9781033120033 |
Author | : New York Transit Museum |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2004-12-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780393057973 |
Reproduces photographic prints from the collection of the New York Transit Museum.
Author | : Clifton Hood |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2004-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801880544 |
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 transit system is among the twentieth century's greatest urban achievements."
Author | : Gerhard Melvin Dahl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Communication and traffic |
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Author | : Michael C. Healy |
Publisher | : Heyday.ORIM |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1597143812 |
An insider’s “indispensible” behind-the-scenes history of the transit system of San Francisco and surrounding counties (Houston Chronicle). In the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider’s account of the rapid transit system’s inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operations, warts and all. With a master storyteller’s wit and sharp attention to detail, Healy recreates the politically fraught venture to bring a new kind of public transit to the West Coast. What emerges is a sense of the individuals who made (and make) BART happen. From tales of staying up until 3:00 a.m. with BART pioneers Bill Stokes and Jack Everson to hear the election results for the rapid transit vote to stories of weathering scandals, strikes, and growing pains, this look behind the scenes of an iconic, seemingly monolithic structure reveals people at their most human—and determined to change the status quo. “The Metro. The T. The Tube. The world's most famous subway systems are known by simple monikers, and San Francisco's BART belongs in that class. Michael C. Healy delivers a tour-de-force telling of its roots, hard-fought approval, and challenging construction that will delight fans of American urban history.”—Doug Most, author of The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway
Author | : The Interborough Transit Company |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2007-06-20 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 143032550X |
On October 27, 1904, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company opened the first subway in New York City. Running between City Hall and 145th Street at Broadway, the line was greeted with enthusiasm and, in some circles, trepidation. Created under the supervision of Chief Engineer S.L.F. Deyo, the arrival of the IRT foreshadowed the end of the "elevated" transit era on the island of Manhattan. The subway proved such a success that the IRT Co. soon achieved a monopoly on New York public transit. In 1940 the IRT and its rival the BMT were taken over by the City of New York. Today, the IRT subway lines still exist, primarily in Manhattan where they are operated as the "A Division" of the subway. Reprinted here is a special book created by the IRT, recounting the design and construction of the fledgling subway system. Originally created in 1904, it presents the IRT story with a flourish, and with numerous fascinating illustrations and rare photographs.
Author | : Michael W. Brooks |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813523965 |
Traces the development of the subway from its inception to its decline as an overcrowded and dangerous part of city life - Explores how it has been represented in film and art - Gives women's experiences of the subway - Examines the city's racial tensions - Skyscapers - Spatial layout of the city - Urban space.
Author | : Peter Derrick |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2002-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814719546 |
Derrick (archivist, Bronx County Historical Society) tells the story of what was, at the time, the largest and most expensive single municipal project ever attempted--the 1913 expansion of the New York City Dual System of Rapid Transit. He considers the factors motivating the expansion, the process of its design, the controversies surrounding financing it, and its impact on New York then and today. Appendixes summarize the contracts and related certificates and list the opening dates of Dual System lines. Twenty-four pages of photographs are also included. c. Book News Inc.
Author | : David Ward |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1997-04-23 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780801856099 |
Creating the modern city - Planning for New York City - Real estate values, zoning, density, intervention - Building the vertical city - Empire State Building - Going from home to work - Subways, transit politics - Sweatshop migration - Identity - Little Italy's decline - Jewish neighbourhoods - Cities of light - Street lighting.
Author | : John E. Morris |
Publisher | : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780762467907 |
"New York wouldn't be New York without the subway. This one-time engineering marvel that united and expanded the city has been a cultural touchstone for the last 114 years. Somehow though, there has never been a book that celebrates the subway from the scars it left on the city's fabric to the romantic fantasies it unleashed. Subway will convey a sense of wonder and fun about the world's largest transit system. The book will include a complete, concise history of the subway beginning with the technical obstacles and corruption that impeded plans for an underground rail line in the late 1800s, and the visionary and sometimes wacky schemes put forward in that era for subterranean and elevated transport. It will also tell how additional lines were built and how three independent subway systems were merged, creating the mishmash of numbered and lettered lines we have today.Interspersed throughout will be sidebars and stand-alone sections including profiles of characters that helped make the subway what it is (including the mostly forgotten August Belmont Jr., a flamboyant financier who bankrolled the first subway); graphics and imagery showing the evolution of subway cars, tokens and MetroCards, graffiti, and even subway etiquette ads; how the subway has been characterized in movies, television, and music; a look at abandoned cars and stations and more. Packed with compelling stories, fascinating facts and anecdotes, vivid portraits of the people who made the subway and those who saved it, all supplemented with engrossing imagery and a dynamic design, Subway will be a visual feast and must-have gift book, perfect for any coffee table"--