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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plotch, Philip Mark, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transportation and state--New York (State)--New York.

Transportation and state.

Subways--Political aspects--New York (State)--New York.

Subways.

Subways--Economic aspects--New York (State)--New York.

Subways--New York (State)--New York--History.

New York City Transit Authority.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 352 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020

Place of Publication:

Ithaca [New York] : Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020.

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.

Contents:

Introduction: A long wait for a train

From a compact city into a metropolis (NYC before World War Two)

An empty promise (late 1940s and 1950s)

The billionaire's ambitions (1960s to 1972)

Construction begins and construction ends (1972 to 1976)

Saving the subway (late 1970s and 1980s)

Planning from the bottom up (1990s)

A 21st century subway (2000 to 2005)

Building a subway and unleashing the plagues (2006 to 2014)

Andrew Cuomo's finish line (2015 to 2016)

Conclusion: Delays ahead.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501745034

1501745034

OCLC:

1100448423