Subway : the curiosities, secrets, and unofficial history of the New York City Transit System /
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...
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New York :
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers,
[2020].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: an underground microcosm of the city
- Horse-drawn gridlock and dreams of a subway
- Other means of transport
- Men, mules, and dynamite : building the IRT
- Under the East River to Brooklyn
- Unique features of the subway
- The forgotten mogul
- Better skin, fewer cockroaches
- Lights, camera, action
- The engineers who made the subway possible
- Signaling and capacity
- Collecting fares
- Defects in the new marvel
- Complaining
- Sex and the subway
- The lost decade and the dual contracts
- Songs of the subway
- Dos and don'ts on the train
- A very different subway
- The pugnacious mayor and the media baron
- City versus state
- Bigger, better, faster
- Beneath the streets
- Unification and demolition
- Meet Miss Subways
- Rolling stock
- How new lines shapes the city
- Scars left behind
- Dream on
- Train substitutes
- Near-death experience
- From horror shows to sitcoms
- How to get there
- The man who introduced New York to Helvetica
- or something like it
- Literature goes underground
- Promises, promises
- Calamities
- Party down
- Epilogue and prologue
- Archaeology: a self-guided tour
- Just the facts, ma'am
- Timeline: 1863-2019
- The straphanger's essential lexicon
- Frequently cited sources.