Rails Under the Mighty Hudson

Author: Brian J. Cudahy
Publisher: Hudson Valley Heritage
ISBN: 9780823221905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description
The author has updated his 1975 book (Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, Vermont). With cheerful enthusiasm, he recounts both engineering and socio-political events connected with the building of railways under the Hudson River. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Rails Under the Mighty Hudson

Author: Brian J. Cudahy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780828902571
Category : Railroad tunnels
Languages : en
Pages : 78

Book Description

Iron Rails in the Garden State

Author: Anthony J. Bianculli
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025335174X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Fascinating stories of New Jersey's rich railroading history

A Century of Subways

Author: Brian J. Cudahy
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823222950
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 617

Book Description
The transit historian and author of Under the Sidewalks of New York delivers a lively and authoritative history of New York City’s fabled subway. On the afternoon of October 27, 1904, ordinary New Yorkers descended beneath the sidewalks for the first time to ride the electric-powered trains of the newly inaugurated Interborough Rapid Transit System. More than a century later, the subway has expanded greatly, weaving its way into the fabric of New York’s unique and diverse urban life. In A Century of Subways, transit historian Brian J. Cudahy offers a fascinating tribute to New York’s storied and historic subway system, from its earliest beginnings and many architectural achievements, to the ways it helped shape today’s modern metropolis. Taking a fresh look at one of the marvels of the twentieth century, Cudahy creates a vivid sense of this extraordinary system and the myriad ways the city was transformed once New Yorkers started riding below the ground.

Gilded Suffragists

Author: Johanna Neuman
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479837067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Although they were dismissed by critics as bored socialites, these gilded suffragists were at the epicenter of the great reforms known collectively as the Progressive Era. From championing education for women, to pursuing careers, and advocating for the end of marriage, these women were engaged with the swirl of change that swept through the streets of New York City.

Crossing the Hudson

Author: Donald E. Wolf
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813547083
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
Donald E. Wolf simultaneously tracks the founding of the towns and villages along the water's edge and the development of technologies such as steam and internal combustion that demanded new ways to cross the river. As a result, innovative engineering was created to provide for these resources.

Metropolitan Railways

Author: William D. Middleton
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253341792
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
"Metropolitan Railways" is a large-scale, illustrated volume that deals with the growth and development of urban rail transit systems in North America.

The Matter of Capital

Author: Christopher Nealon
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674058720
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 203

Book Description
Christopher Nealon’s reexamination of North America’s poetry in English, from Ezra Pound and W. H. Auden to younger poets of the present day, argues persuasively that the central literary project of the past century was to explore the relationship between poetry and capitalism—its impact on individuals, communities, and cultures.

In the Blood

Author: Savannah Russe
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101211334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Since the feds coerced sleek New York vampire Daphne Urban into spying for the U.S., she's been part of Team Darkwing. Their latest assignment: rescue the kidnapped daughters of the city's elite. The terrorists demand gold-and access to a military secret. So Darkwing goes on the prowl in the depraved, secret vampire underworld. It's a world of passions that Daphne has always shunned, until temptation finds her. And if she wants to save the kidnapped girls, she can't get distracted...

722 Miles

Author: Clifton Hood
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801880544
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
When it first opened on October 27, 1904, the New York City subway ran twenty-two miles from City Hall to 145th Street and Lenox Avenue—the longest stretch ever built at one time. From that initial route through the completion of the IND or Independent Subway line in the 1940s, the subway grew to cover 722 miles—long enough to reach from New York to Chicago. In this definitive history, Clifton Hood traces the complex and fascinating story of the New York City subway system, one of the urban engineering marvels of the twentieth century. For the subway's centennial the author supplies a new foreward explaining that now, after a century, "we can see more clearly than ever that this rapid transit system is among the twentieth century's greatest urban achievements."