Title Last subway : the long wait for the next train in New York City / Philip Mark Plotch

Published Ithaca, New York : Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (x, 352 pages) 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 Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Analysis Cuomo, Infrastructure, Megaproject, MTA, NYC, Planning, Politics, SubwaysTransit, Transportation Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2020) Subject New York City Transit Authority. SUBJECT New York City Transit Authority fast Subject Subways -- New York (State) -- New York -- History Subways -- Economic aspects -- New York (State) -- New York Subways -- Political aspects -- New York (State) -- New York Transportation and state -- New York (State) -- New York HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) Subways Subways -- Economic aspects Transportation and state New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019021840 ISBN 9781501745027 1501745026 9781501745034 1501745034

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