892 records matched your query       

Author:

Plotch, Philip Mark, 1961- author.

Title:

Last subway : the long wait for the next train in New York City / Philip Mark Plotch.

Publisher:

Three Hillsan imprint of Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

New York City Transit Authority.
New York City Transit Authority.
Subways--New York--New York--History.
Subways--Economic aspects--New York.--New York.
Subways--Political aspects--New York.--New York.
Transportation and state--New York.--New York.
Subways.
Subways--Economic aspects.
Transportation and state.
New York (State)--New York.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-339) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : a long wait for a train -- From a compact city into a metropolis -- An empty promise -- The billionaire's ambitions -- Construction begins and construction ends -- Saving the subway -- Planning from the bottom up -- A twenty-first-century subway -- Building a subway and unleashing the plagues -- Andrew Cuomo's finish line -- Conclusion : delays ahead.

Summary:

"The story of the Second Avenue subway, as it symbolizes New York's inability to modernize its infrastructure and reveals the ingredients necessary to build a twenty-first-century megaproject"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0801453666
9780801453663

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1099546659

LCCN:

2019019068

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)