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From a nickel to a token : the journey from Board of Transportation to MTA / Andrew J. Sparberg.
LIBRA HE4491.N65 S63 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sparberg, Andrew J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New York (State). Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
- New York (N.Y.). Board of Transportation.
- Local transit--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Local transit.
- Transportation--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Transportation.
- New York (N.Y.). Board of Transportation--History.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (State). Metropolitan Transportation Authority--History.
- New York (State).
- History.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 178 pages ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Empire State Editions, An imprint of Fordham University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- "Chronicle of twenty specific events in the history of New York's mass transit systems between 1940 and 1968, including large numbers of rare photos. 1940 to 1968 was chosen because those years bracket two sea change events - the June 1940 subway unification, and the March 1968 inception of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1940: unification: IRT and BMT join the IND, creating one subway system
- 1941: a strike and a pioneering labor agreement
- 1941: Dyre Avenue subway extension opens
- 1941-1948: Third Avenue transit: rails to rubber
- 1944 and 1950: goodbye to Brooklyn Bridge rails
- 1947-1948: private to public bus operations
- 1948: goodbye to the nickel
- 1947-1956: final decade for Brooklyn trolleys
- 1950: farewell, Lexington Avenue
- 1953-1968: The TA, tokens, and TWU triumphant
- 1953: last double-deck buses operate on Fifth Avenue
- 1954-1956: The BMT and IND begin a courtship
- 1955: sunshine returns to Third Avenue
- 1956: Fifth Avenue coach becomes number one
- 1957-1959: IRT West Side improvement
- 1962: Fifth Avenue coach suddenly disappears
- 1964: World's Fair, Blue Subways, stainless steel subways
- 1966: Mike Quill's last hurrah
- 1967: The BMT and IND marry forever
- 1968: The MTA is created and express buses appear.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-168) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780823261901
- 0823261905
- OCLC:
- 892304648
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