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The Routes Not Taken : A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System /
It took more than four years to build the subway line from City Hall to West 145th Street in Harlem. Things rarely went that quickly ever again. This book explores the often dramatic stories behind the city's unbuilt or unfinished subway lines, shedding light on a significant part of New York C...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press,
[2014]
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| 505 | 0 | |a Building (and Not Building) New York City's Subway System -- Sound to Shore : The Unbuilt Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown Line -- Why the No. 7 Line Stops in Flushing -- The Battle of the Northeast Bronx, Part 1 -- Buy Land Now, Ride the Subway Later -- Ashland Place and the Mysteries of 76th Street -- To the City Limits and Beyond -- The Battle of the Northeast Bronx, Part 2 -- Building the Line That Almost Never Was -- Other Plans, Other Lines, Other Issues in the Postwar Years -- What Happened to the Rest of the System? -- Appendix A : The 1944 Service Plan -- Appendix B : The 1947 2nd Avenue Service Plan -- Appendix C : The Cast of Characters. | |
| 520 | |a It took more than four years to build the subway line from City Hall to West 145th Street in Harlem. Things rarely went that quickly ever again. This book explores the often dramatic stories behind the city's unbuilt or unfinished subway lines, shedding light on a significant part of New York City's history that has been almost completely ignored. By focusing on the unbuilt lines, the author illustrates how the existing subway system is actually a Herculean feat of countless political compromises. | ||
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