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As the population of New York - and specifically Manhattan - grew throughout the 19th century, boundaries grew strained and surface transportation increasingly difficult. However, through the vision and financial backing of a handful of wealthy investors, by the early part of the 20th-century New Yorkers were living in the outlying boroughs of The Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn, and commuting across the rivers into Manhattan on a system of public transportation that in scope is still unrivalled. In this text Clifton Hood traces the history of the New York City subway system - the planners and powerbrokers, the politics and the economics that surrounded the enterprise.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Industry & industrial studies Transport industries

• Full title: 722 Miles
• Subtitle: Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York
• Author: Clifton Hood
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780801852442
• ID: 04708625
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Weight: 510 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 1995

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