The Wheels That Drove New York : A History of the New York City Transit System - Roess, Roger P.; Sansone, Gene.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Introduction to the New York City Transit System -- An Overview of the History of New York: Discovery Through the Civil War -- Enabling Technologies -- The Beginnings of Public Transportation in New York: Omnibuses and Street Railways -- The Age of Trolleys -- To "El" and Back: The Era of the Elevated Railroad -- Alfred E Beach and New York's First Subway -- The Interborough Rapid Transit System -- The Dual Contracts and Expansion of the Subways -- The Independent Subway -- The Staten Island Rapid Transit -- When the Rubber Hits the Road -- Unification, a War, and the New York City Transit Authority -- Prelude to Disaster - The NYCTA Between 1953 and 1970 Things Have to Get Worse Before They Get Better: NYC Transit - 1970 to the Present -- Rolling Thunder -- The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men.
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