Last subway : the long wait for the next train in New York City / Philip Mark Plotch.
"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"--
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Ithaca, New York :
Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2020.
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Table of 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.