The routes not taken
Subtitle: a trip through New York City's unbuilt subway system
By: Joseph B. Raskin
Publisher: Empire State Editions
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780823253692; 9780823267408
Subjects: Design and construction; Subways; History
Description: "A history of unrealized plans to expand New York City's rapid transit and commuter rail systems"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Building (and Not Building) New York City's Subway System; title: 2. Sound to Shore; title: The Unbuilt Brooklyn Queens Crosstown Line; title: 3. Why the No. 7 Line Stops in Flushing; title: 4. The Battle of the Northeast Bronx; title: 1; title: 5. Buy Land Now, Ride the Subway Later; title: 6. Ashland Place and the Mysteries of 76th Street; title: 7. To the City Limits and Beyond; title: 8. The Battle of the Northeast Bronx; title: 2; title: 9. Building the Line That Almost Never Was; title: 10. Other Plans, Other Lines, Other Issues in the Postwar Years; title: 11. What Happened to the Rest of the System???; title: Appendix 1. The 1944 Service Plan; title: Appendix 2. The 1947 2nd Avenue Service Plan; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.