Last Subway : The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City /

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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1. Verfasser: Plotch, Philip Mark (VerfasserIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2020]
©2020
Schlagworte:
Subways > Economic aspects > New York (State) > New York.
Subways > Political aspects > New York (State) > New York.
Subways > New York (State) > New York > History.
Transportation and state > New York (State) > New York.
Cuomo, Infrastructure, Megaproject, MTA, NYC, Planning, Politics, SubwaysTransit, Transportation.
Transportation.
Urban Studies.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA).
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ISBN:9781501745034
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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

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