The routes not taken : a trip through New York City's unbuilt subway system /

Robert A. Van Wyck, mayor of the greater city of New York, broke ground for the first subway line by City Hall on March 24, 1900. It took four years, six months, and twenty-three days to build the line from City Hall to West 145th Street in Harlem. Things rarely went that quickly ever again. The Rou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Raskin, Joseph B.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, 2014.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Subways > New York (State) > New York > Design and construction > History. Subways > New York (State) > New York > History. TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / History. TRANSPORTATION / Public Transportation. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

Table of Contents:

Contents
1. Building (and Not Building) New York City's Subway System
2. Sound to Shore
The Unbuilt Brooklyn Queens Crosstown Line
3. Why the No. 7 Line Stops in Flushing
4. The Battle of the Northeast Bronx
1
5. Buy Land Now, Ride the Subway Later
6. Ashland Place and the Mysteries of 76th Street
7. To the City Limits and Beyond
8. The Battle of the Northeast Bronx
2
9. Building the Line That Almost Never Was
10. Other Plans, Other Lines, Other Issues in the Postwar Years
11. What Happened to the Rest of the System???
Appendix 1. The 1944 Service Plan
Appendix 2. The 1947 2nd Avenue Service Plan
Notes
Bibliography
Index.