Cover of 722 miles

722 miles

by Clifton Hood

1993 335 pages eng

"The building of the New York City subway system was an epic struggle, and not just for engineering reasons." "As New York grew in importance throughout the nineteenth century, geography imposed physical limits on the city. Manhattan was a narrow and crowded island, with a huge population jammed int…

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