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The New York Subway : its construction and equipment : Interborough Rapid Transit, 1904 by Cudahy, Brian J.; Interborough Rapid Transit Company is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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This is a complete facsimile of the 1904 edition originally published by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company to commemorate the opening of New Yorks first subway line. From the perspective of both urban history and the history of transportation, this book is an important primary source. Building the citys first subway in the early years of the twentieth century required delicate collaboration between public and private interests and called for the expenditure of considerable sums of both public and private money. The book introduces us to Abram S. Hewitt, a late nineteenth-century mayor of New York City. It was Hewitt who realized that, while private capital alone had been perfectly adequate for building elevated rapid transit lines in New York as early as the 1870s, the more costly construction of underground rapid transit lines was far beyond the ability of private corporations to finance. Hewitt set in motion a chain of events that sanctioned the use of public funds for subway construction, with the completed facility then to be leased to a private company for day-to-day operation. The private firm that emerged, both to build and to operate the first subway in New York, was c

Author

Cudahy, Brian J.; Interborough Rapid Transit Company

Publisher

Oxford University Press USA

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823213191

Subjects

Engineering, Technology, Philosophy