The City Beneath Us
Subtitle: Building the New York Subway
Contributors: Vivian Heller (Editor)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: December 13, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780393057973
First sentence: In a film comedy by Thomas Edison, a man carrying a lunch pail hurries up to a subway kiosk, shakes the hand of a subway official seated just inside the entry, rushes down the steps, leaps down onto the track, lights a stick of dynamite-and is then seen shooting through the subway tunnel, arms outstretched, ribbons of cloth fluttering at his sides.