Download or read book Street Railways of Greater New York written by Redmond, Kerr & Co., Bankers and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Street Railway Securities of Greater New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wheels That Drove New York written by Roger P. Roess and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wheels That Drove New York tells the fascinating story of how a public transportation system helped transform a small trading community on the southern tip of Manhattan island to a world financial capital that is home to more than 8,000,000 people. From the earliest days of horse-drawn conveyances to the wonders of one of the world's largest and most efficient subways, the story links the developing history of the City itself to the growth and development of its public transit system. Along the way, the key role of played by the inventors, builders, financiers, and managers of the system are highlighted. New York began as a fur trading outpost run by the Dutch West India Company, established after the discovery and exploration of New York Harbor and its great river by Henry Hudson. It was eventually taken over by the British, and the magnificent harbor provided for a growing center of trade. Trade spurred industry, initially those needed to support the shipping industry, later spreading to various products for export. When DeWitt Clinton built the Erie Canal, which linked New York Harbor to the Great Lakes, New York became the center of trade for all products moving into and out of the mid-west. As industry grew, New York became a magnate for immigrants seeking refuge in a new land of opportunity. The City's population continued to expand. Both water and land barriers, however, forced virtually the entire population to live south of what is now 14th Street. Densities grew dangerously, and brought both disease and conflict to the poorer quarters of the Five Towns. To expand, the City needed to conquer land and water barriers, primarily with a public transportation system. By the time of the Civil War, the City was at a breaking point. The horse-drawn public conveyances that had provided all of the public transportation services since the 1820's needed to be replaced with something more effective and efficient. First came the elevated railroads, initially powered by steam engines. With the invention of electricity and the electric traction motor, the elevated's were electrified, and a trolley system emerged. Finally, in 1904, the City opened its first subway. From there, the City's growth to northern Manhattan and to the "outer boroughs" of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx exploded. The Wheels That Drove New York takes us through the present day, and discusses the many challenges that the transit system has had to face over the years. It also traces the conversion of the system from fully private operations (through the elevated railways) to the fully public system that exists today, and the problems that this transformation has created along the way.
Download or read book The Street Surface Railway Franchises of New York City Classic Reprint written by Harry James Carman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Street Surface Railway Franchises of New York City IN recent years there has been considerable agitation for municipal ownership of the street surface railways of New York city. In this monograph an attempt has been made to trace the franchise history of the street surface railways of Manhattan Island and to point out in connection there with so-me of the difficulties which will be met in any pro gram for municipalization. According to statistics pub lished in 1913 by the Public Service Commission of the First District of the State of New York, seven hundred and twenty-six railway companies have been organized to operate routes steam, surface, elevated, and subway within the present limits of Greater New York. Over four hundred and fifty of these are now extinct, about two hun dred of the remainder have lost their identity by merger, mortgage foreclosure, or change of name, and of the others, many are operating under lease or agreement. The follow ing investigation is limited to the surface railways of Man hattan and to those companies whose lines were consoli dated in forming the present street railway systems. No attempt has been made in this thesis to give a detailed ac count of the financial history of the street surface railways. Although it has been found necessary to make frequent reference to this exceedingly interesting phase of the life of the street railway corporations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Passenger Rail Transport in New York City written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 116. Chapters: Metro-North Railroad, Railroad terminals in New York City, Streetcar lines in Manhattan, Streetcar lines in Staten Island, Streetcar lines in the Bronx, Surface transportation in Greater New York, Long Island Rail Road, Pennsylvania Station, Grand Central Terminal, New Haven Line, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, New York City Transit buses, Harlem Line, List of streetcar lines in Manhattan, Hoboken Terminal, Pavonia Terminal, GE Genesis, Bee-Line Bus System, Hudson Line, Jamaica, MTA Regional Bus Operations, Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal, MTA Bus Company, New York Railways Company, New Jersey Transit Bus Operations, Olympia Trails, Short Line, Coach USA, Port Jervis Line, Beacon Line, Connecticut Transit New Haven, Long Island Bus, Academy Bus, Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues Line, Danbury Branch, New York and Harlem Railroad, Hampton Jitney, Transport of Rockland, Suffolk County Transit, Ulster County Area Transit, Fifth Avenue Coach Company, Northeast Transportation Company, Community Coach, Connecticut Transit Stamford, Norwalk Transit District, List of streetcar lines in the Bronx, Comet, Rockland Coaches, New Canaan Branch, Housatonic Area Regional Transit, Greater Bridgeport Transit Authority, Dutchess County LOOP, Atlantic Terminal, Nassau Electric Railroad, Trailways of New York, PABCO Transit, Inc, Staten Island light rail, Connecticut Rail Commuter Council, Pascack Valley Line, Seventh Avenue Line, Broadway Line, New York Railways Corporation, Long Island City, Eighth Street Crosstown Line, Third Avenue Railway, Shoreliner, Railroad terminals serving New York City, Lenox Avenue Line, Atlantic Express, Suburban Trails, Lakeland Bus Lines, Putnam Transit, 53rd Street Crosstown Line, Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad, Comet V, Park Avenue Bridge, Sixth Avenue Line, Second...
Download or read book The Street Surface Railway Franchises of New York City written by Harry James Carman and published by New York : Columbia university, Longmans, Green & Company, agents. This book was released on 1919 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report in the Matter of the Transportation Problem in Greater New York written by New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Collapse written by Louis Waldman and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 224 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 University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1905 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Down Town Brooklyn written by Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Committee of Ten and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New York Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1272 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 The Street Railway Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Transportation of Passengers in Greater New York by Continuous Railway Train written by Schmidt & Gallatin and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Elevated Railways of Manhattan written by Eric R. Oszustowicz and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elevated Railways of Manhattan by Eric R. Oszustowicz was written for the many New Yorkers who rush through the streets of Manhattan today completely oblivious to the fact that at one time there was an extensive elevated railway system that traversed most of the island from the Battery through Midtown, Harlem and on into The Bronx and later into Queens. Certain narrow downtown streets, such as Pearl Street, were shrouded in darkness by the elevated structure, even on the sunniest of days.But without these elevated railways, it would not have been possible for New York City to develop as fast as it did. Development would have been delayed about 25 years until the first subways opened since there was no other way to move the massive crowds through the City. Partially due to the constant expansion of the underground subway lines and to a great extent real estate interests, the elevated lines that ran into southern Manhattan were all torn down from 1938 to 1955.Although New York has its own unique and extreme dynamism and is one of the great cities of the world, one could only wonder what New York would be like today if one or more of the elevated lines were still standing.
Download or read book Greater New York Its Government written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
