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Author:	Clifton Hood	Publisher:	Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Edition Description:	Reprint	ISBN-10:	0801852447
Category:	Transportation	ISBN-13:	9780801852442
	--	Format:	Softcover
	--	Publication Year:	1995
Condition:	Good	Special Attributes:	--

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Length:	335 pages
Height:	9.3 in.
Width:	6.3 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	18.4 oz.

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Clifton Hood traces the complex and fascinating history of the New York City subway system. At its opening in 1904, the tracks covered the twenty-two miles from City Hall up to 145th Street and Lenox Avenue, the longest stretch ever built at one time. From that initial route through the completion of the IND, the Independent Subway, in the 1940s, the subway grew to cover 722 miles—long enough to reach from New York to Chicago. "Clifton Hood's 722 Miles is the fullest and most authoritative account of the building and impact of the New York City subways, the most extensive system of urban transportation in the United States and perhaps the world."—Nathan Glazer, Harvard University"A clear, perceptive and carefully researched study of this engineering feat and the ways in which the subway led to an expansion of the metropolitan area."—Publishers Weekly 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 into its southern tip. By the 1880s surface transportation on Manhattan streets was impossibly slow, and the city's business leadership realized that improved transportation was vital to its future. Mayor Abram S. Hewitt, a wealthy businessman, proposed a subway system, and Hewitt and other prominent businessmen established the political and financial framework for the city's first subway, which opened in 1904. Hugely popular from its inception, the subway quickly became overcrowded. Expansion of the system was hindered by the autocratic August Belmont, a wealthy banker who operated and controlled the IRT subway. Belmont's efforts to preserve his transportation monopoly precipitated a confrontation with the nascent progressive political movement. The progressive reformers wanted to expand the subways to promote dispersal of the population into the outer boroughs of New York, especially the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. Their success marked the end of the era of domination of city government by the mercantile elite. The construction of the subway system - still the world's largest and, at 722 miles of track, long enough to extend from New York to Chicago if all the track were laid end to end - was a monumental engineering feat. Subway tunnels beneath the East River connected Manhattan with Brooklyn and Queens, and other tunnels beneath the Harlem River connected Manhattan and the Bronx. In northernManhattan the subway lay nearly 200 feet deep beneath solid rock in the vicinity of Fort George; a construction accident there took the lives of ten men, all of them immigrants. (The subway system was built almost entirely by immigrant labor.). The subways were a success by every measure. They brought true rapid transit to New York for the first time. A worker from the Bronx or Queens could commute to a job in Manhattan every day; something that was impossible before the subways. The population shifted dramatically and would never again approach the density of the Lower East Side in the years before the IRT opened. The nickel fare was so popular that it became a political sacred cow and lasted long beyond the point where it made economic sense. The subways themselves became an integral part of New York's legend, celebrated in films, songs, and literature. In 722 Miles, Clifton Hood has written a meticulously researched and wonderfully rich and vibrant work of urban history.
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"The fullest and most authoritative account of the building and impact of the New York City subways, the most extensive system of urban transportation in the United States and perhaps the world." Nathan Glazer

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722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York

Professor Clifton Hood

Book Notes:	722 Miles the Building of the Subways
Binding:	Paperback
Book Condition:	Good
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ISBN:	0801852447
Publication Date:	1995-09-01
Publisher:	The Johns Hopkins University Pre

Pages:	352
Height:	0.9500 inches
Width:	6.1800 inches
Weight:	1.1100 pounds

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