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The New York Subway - Its Construction and Equipment (Paperback, Facsimile Of 1904 Ed)
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The New York Subway - Its Construction and Equipment (Paperback, Facsimile Of 1904 Ed)
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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 Yorkas first subway line. From the perspective
of both urban history and the history of transportation, this book
is an important primary source. Building the cityas 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 called the
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, a name that would later be
rendered more crisply as the IRT. The City of New York and the
Interborough Rapid transit Company inaugurated service over the
cityas first subway line on Thursday afternoon, October 27, 1904.
Mayor George B. McClellan, son of the Civil War general, took the
controls of the first ceremonial train at City Hall Station in
downtown Manhattan and headed north. In one way or another, the
subway has been going ever since. The book alsopresents important
tabular and statistical information, as well as clear and concise
narrative descriptions of technical details.
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