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Title: 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York by Clifton Hood ISBN: 0-8018-5244-7 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not A Tourist Guide?
Comment: In response to other reviewers: this book is not MEANT to be a tourist guide, it IS, however, an academic study, and a very good one indeed. For those who did not enjoy the book, because of it's lack of pictures, perhaps the problems lie with the reader rather than the author?
Rating: 1
Summary: Wake me up!
Comment: As a daily rider of the New York subway system, I find it dynamic and exciting piece of living history. This book, however, was not. It is a plodding academic treatment that focuses more on politics than the actual system. The pictures were too few. The maps were poorly realized and uninformative. As the system is still in place largely as it was decades ago, I would have liked references to the current line and station names instead of trying to guess or sit there with my own maps (something you can't do if reading while riding the subway). The subway system represents both a technological marvel and an instrument of great social change. Where is that book.
Rating: 4
Summary: a good political history
Comment: my only criticism of this book is that 1/3 of it is of footnotes. when the book ended, there was too much reference material here. the jackson heights subway line info is interesting as it is not common to focus on an area outsideof manhattan as much. a good read. the poltical machinisms to get the work done are a worthy read.
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Title: Under the Sidewalks of New York: The Story of the Greatest Subway System in the World by Brian J. Cudahy ISBN: 0823216187 Publisher: Fordham University Press Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Rails Under the Mighty Hudson: The Story of the Hudson Tubes, the Pennsy Tunnels and Manhattan Trans Fer by Brian J. Cudahy ISBN: 0823221903 Publisher: Fordham University Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: New York's Forgotten Substations: The Power Behind the Subway by Christopher Payne ISBN: 1568983557 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Evolution of New York City Subways: An Illustrated History of New York City's Transit Cars, 1867-1997 by Gene Sansone, Clifton Hood ISBN: 0801868866 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
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Title: Tunneling to the Future: The Story of the Great Subway Expansion That Saved New York by Peter Derrick ISBN: 0814719546 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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