The New York Subway: Its Construction and Equipment: Interborough Rapid Transit, 1904

by Brian J. Cudahy

This is a complete facsimile of the 1904 edition originally published by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company to commemorate the opening of New York's first subway line. From the perspective of both urban history and the history of transportation, this book is an important primary source.

Building the city's first subway in the early years of the twentieth century required delicate collaboration between public and private interests and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823224015
• ISBN13: 9780823224012
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.1"