Title: Conquering Gotham
Subtitle: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels
First published: March 25, 2008
Description: "Superb. [A] first-rate narrative" (The Wall Street Journal ) about the controversial construction of New York's beloved original Penn Station and its tunnels\As bestselling books like Ron Chernow's Titan and David McCullough's The Great Bridge affirm, readers are fascinated with the grand personalities and schemes that populated New York at the close of the nineteenth century. Conquering Gotham re-creates the riveting struggle waged by the great Pennsylvania Railroad to build Penn Station and the monumental system of tunnels that would connect water-bound Manhattan to the rest of the continent by rail. Historian Jill Jonnes tells a ravishing tale of snarling plutocrats, engineering feats, and backroom politicking packed with the most colorful figures of Gilded Age New York.
Subjects: History, Nonfiction, Historic buildings, new york (state), New york (n.y.), history, Pennsylvania station (new york, n.y.), Railroad stations, Railroads, united states, history, Tunneling, Historic buildings, Railroads
Places: New York (State), New York
Time periods: 20th century