Last Subway : : The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City / / Philip Mark Plotch.
Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transit services all across the city. With his extraordinary access to powerful players and internal documents, Philip Mark Plotch reveals why the city�...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 37 b&w halftones, 10 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: A Long Wait for a Train
- 1. From a Compact City into a Metropolis
- 2. An Empty Promise
- 3. The Billionaire’s Ambitions
- 4. Construction Begins and Construction Ends
- 5. Saving the Subway
- 6. Planning from the Bottom Up
- 7. A Twenty-First-Century Subway
- 8. Building a Subway and Unleashing the Plagues
- 9. Andrew Cuomo’s Finish Line
- Conclusion: Delays Ahead
- Acknowledgments
- Key Dates in the Second Avenue Subway Saga
- Notes
- Index