Uptown, downtown : a trip through time on New York's subways / Stan Fischler ; research editor, Dave Rubenstein ; drawings by Ray Judd.

Main entry:

Fischler, Stan.

Title & Author:

Uptown, downtown : a trip through time on New York's subways / Stan Fischler ; research editor, Dave Rubenstein ; drawings by Ray Judd.

Publication:

Description:

xi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Introduction: You are the greatest -- Early forms of transit -- Building the greatest railroad -- Disasters -- Off the beaten track -- Anatomy of the underground -- The subway superstars -- Appendixes -- Chronology of the elevateds -- Index.

Summary:

The story of the New York City subway system from it's first elevated line (the IRT Ninth Avenue Line) in 1870 to the first underground line opened on October 27, 1904, to the present system (in 1976) of 710 miles of trackage.

ISBN:

0801531187
9780801531187
0801581966
9780801581960

Subject:

New York (N.Y.). METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTHORITY.
Subways New York (State) New York.
Local transit New York (State) New York.
Métros New York (État) New York.
Transports publics New York (État) New York.
Local transit.
Subways.
New York (State) New York.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 35542
Call No.: ID:88-B6830
Status: Available

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