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Author : Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Interborough Rapid Transit written by Interborough Rapid Transit Company and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : The Interborough Transit Company
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 143032550X
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)
Download or read book IRT Interborough Rapid Transit / the New York City Subway: Its Design and Construction written by The Interborough Transit Company and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-06-20 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : New York Transit Museum
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393057973
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (579 download)
Download or read book City Beneath Us written by New York Transit Museum and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-12-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduces photographic prints from the collection of the New York Transit Museum.
Author : James Blaine Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years of Rapid Transit, 1864-1917 written by James Blaine Walker and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clifton Hood
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801880544
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)
Download or read book 722 Miles written by Clifton Hood and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-08-23 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Peter Derrick
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814719546
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Tunneling to the Future written by Peter Derrick and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael W. Brooks
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813523965
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Subway City written by Michael W. Brooks and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : New York (State) Public service commission. 1st district
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book New Subways for New York written by New York (State) Public service commission. 1st district and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael V. Susi
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738549767
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (497 download)
Download or read book Columbia University and Morningside Heights written by Michael V. Susi and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outgrowing its remarkably shortlived location in midtown Manhattan, Columbia College moved uptown in the mid1890s, not only transforming itself into an urban university under university president Seth Low, but also creating an urban campus guided by Charles McKim, William Rutherford Mead, and Stanford White's master plan. The university became a major constituent of what would be described as New York's Acropolis on Morningside Heights. It was preceded in this endeavor by the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine and St. Luke's Hospital, and it was soon joined by Barnard College, Teachers College, and Union Theological Seminary, among others. The arrival of the Interborough Rapid Transit Subway in 1904 spurred residential and retail development.
Author : John E. Morris
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780762467907
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Subway written by John E. Morris and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--
Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Automatic Train Control in Rail Rapid Transit written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bouck White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Church of the Social Revolution written by Bouck White and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Ward
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801856099
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Landscape of Modernity written by David Ward and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-04-23 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : New York Chamber of Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Rapid Transit in New York City and in Other Great Cities written by New York Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book American Engineer and Railroad Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Mark Plotch
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745026
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Last Subway written by Philip Mark Plotch and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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's subway system, once the best in the world, is now too often unreliable, overcrowded, and uncomfortable. He explains how a series of uninformed and self-serving elected officials have fostered false expectations about the city's ability to adequately maintain and significantly expand its transit system. Since the 1920s, New Yorkers have been promised a Second Avenue subway. When the first of four planned phases opened on Manhattan's Upper East Side in 2017, subway service improved for tens of thousands of people. Riders have been delighted with the clean, quiet, and spacious new stations. Yet these types of accomplishments will not be repeated unless New Yorkers learn from their century-long struggle. Last Subway offers valuable lessons in how governments can overcome political gridlock and enormous obstacles to build grand projects. However, it is also a cautionary tale for cities. Plotch reveals how false promises, redirected funds and political ambitions have derailed subway improvements. Given the ridiculously high cost of building new subways in New York and their lengthy construction period, the Second Avenue subway (if it is ever completed) will be the last subway built in New York for generations to come.
Author : Eric Oszustowicz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736430507
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Elevated Railways of Brooklyn and the BMT Subway written by Eric Oszustowicz and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the hot summer months, people wanted to get to the beaches quickly and the fastest way to get anywhere in the 1860s and 1870s was by steam train. What would become the BMT subway and elevated lines began with these steam train operations.Most of the subway and elevated lines in Brooklyn today owe their origins to steam railroads constructed in the late 19th century. If one looks at a steam railway map from that period, it partially resembles a present-day subway map. These steam railways, which operated on both elevated structures and along streets, would eventually evolve to become the lines of the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit (BMT) system. Although the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. (IRT) and the city owned Independent (IND) would also construct their own lines in Brooklyn, this publication will primarily focus on the BRT/BMT system. Coney Island was the major reason most of the steam railroads were built. All of today's subway lines that terminate in Coney Island were once steam railroads that operated all of their mileage on the streets of Kings County.
