Download or read book Integration of Rapid Transit Facilities of the City of New York written by Arthur John Waterman and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Integration of Rapid Transit Facilities of the City of New York written by Arthur John Waterman and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rapid Transit Situation in Greater New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Subways for New York written by New York (State) Public service commission. 1st district and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on Rapid Transit in New York City written by Municipal Art Society of New York. City Plan Committee and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Building the New Rapid Transit System of New York City written by Fred Lavis and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Subways in the City of New York written by New York Public Library. Municipal Reference Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rapid Transit in New York City and in Other Great Cities written by New York Chamber of Commerce and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V TUNNELS HUDSON RIVER TUNNEL. Greater problems than those involved in the making of an easy way across THE NORTH RIVER from Manhattan Island to Brooklyn were involved in the proposition to provide pROBLEM transit facilities to the section of New Jersey opposite New York City. The Hudson is a full mile wide. Up and down the river vessels of all sorts are constantly plying. They must have an unobstructed passage, not only at the center of the stream, but at all points between the banks. From time to time proposals were advanced to build a bridge over the river. To this moment no individual or interest has made progress in that direction. Ferryboats are still carrying passengers and teams over it. Freight is transported largely in cars placed on floats and towed by steam vessels. Some barges, large enough to take on board passenger coaches, are used to facilitate transit with New England connections. In 1871 an individual who was neither a citizen of New York nor con- D. C. HASKIN nected with the business of New York; who was not even an engineer, although he had been concerned in railroad construction, conceived the idea of making a tunnel under the river. He had come from the Pacific coast via Omaha, and had seen there work going on building piers for a great railroad bridge over the Missouri. This was done by setting up iron cylinders at points suitable for piers. In order to sink these to bedrock they were so made that compressed air could be pumped into them, and workmen and materials could be taken into them through so-called air locks at the top. The water having been driven out at the bottom by air pressure, the men were able to remove earth, and drop the cylinders by degrees until rock was reached. The structure was then filled with concrete masonry, an...

Download or read book Better Rapid Transit for New York City written by New York (N.Y.). City Planning Commission and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rapid Transit in New York City and in Other Great Cities written by New York Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book IRT Interborough Rapid Transit the New York City Subway Its Design and Construction written by The Interborough Transit Company and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-06-20 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 27, 1904, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company opened the first subway in New York City. Running between City Hall and 145th Street at Broadway, the line was greeted with enthusiasm and, in some circles, trepidation. Created under the supervision of Chief Engineer S.L.F. Deyo, the arrival of the IRT foreshadowed the end of the "elevated" transit era on the island of Manhattan. The subway proved such a success that the IRT Co. soon achieved a monopoly on New York public transit. In 1940 the IRT and its rival the BMT were taken over by the City of New York. Today, the IRT subway lines still exist, primarily in Manhattan where they are operated as the "A Division" of the subway. Reprinted here is a special book created by the IRT, recounting the design and construction of the fledgling subway system. Originally created in 1904, it presents the IRT story with a flourish, and with numerous fascinating illustrations and rare photographs.

Download or read book Transit Truths written by Gerhard Melvin Dahl and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Discussion of the Rapid Transit Problem in and about New York by the City Plan Committee of the Municipal Art Society written by Municipal Art Society of New York and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transit and Transportation written by Harold MacLean Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Interborough Rapid Transit written by Interborough Rapid Transit Company and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tunneling to the Future written by Peter Derrick and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derrick (archivist, Bronx County Historical Society) tells the story of what was, at the time, the largest and most expensive single municipal project ever attempted--the 1913 expansion of the New York City Dual System of Rapid Transit. He considers the factors motivating the expansion, the process of its design, the controversies surrounding financing it, and its impact on New York then and today. Appendixes summarize the contracts and related certificates and list the opening dates of Dual System lines. Twenty-four pages of photographs are also included. c. Book News Inc.

Download or read book 722 Miles written by Clifton Hood and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-08-23 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."