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| 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York |
| By : Clifton Hood |
In 722 Miles, Clifton Hood traces the complex and fascinating history of the New York City subways sytem - the planners and powerbrokers, the politics and the economics that surrounded the enterprise. 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), the system grew to cover 722 miles - long enough to reach from New York City to Chicago, laid end to end. A monumental engineering feat, the construction of the New York subway forever changed the shape of the city.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr List Price: 18.95 Customer Rating: 3.86 / 5.0 
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