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The New York Subway: Its Construction and Equipment
Brian Cudahy
$18.31

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This is a complete facsimile of the 1904 edition originally published by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company to commemorate the opening of New York’s first subway line. From the perspective of both urban history and the history of transportation, this book is an important primary source. Building the city’s first subway in the early years of the twentieth century required delicate collaboration between public and private interests and called for the expenditure of considerable sums of both public and private money. The book introduces us to Abram S. Hewitt, a late nineteenth-century mayor of New York City. It was Hewitt who realized that, while private capital alone had been perfectly adequate for building elevated rapid transit lines in New York as early as the 1870s, the more costly construction of underground rapid transit lines was far beyond the ability of private corporations to finance. Hewitt set in motion a chain of events that sanctioned the use of public funds for subway construction, with the completed facility then to be leased to a private company for day-to-day operation. The private firm that emerged, both to build and to operate the first subway in New York, was called the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, a name that would later be rendered more crisply as the IRT. The City of New York and the Interborough Rapid transit Company inaugurated service over the city’s first subway line on Thursday afternoon, October 27, 1904. Mayor George B. McClellan, son of the Civil War general, took the controls of the first ceremonial train at City Hall Station in downtown Manhattan and headed north. In one way or another, the subway has been going ever since. The book also presents important tabular and statistical information, as well as clear and concise narrative descriptions of technical details.

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New York City Subway Cars
J. Greller
$64.08

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A full history of all the New York City subway equipment from their first standard car design, the R#1 to the present day R#160 subway cars. Full history and discription of each type with many color photograhes and dementional drawing of every type. This is the only publication to completely discribe one of the World's largest subway fleet.

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Streetwise Downtown Manhattan Map - Laminated Street Map of Downtown Manhattan, NY - Folding pocket size travel map with subway (Streetwise (Streetwise Maps))
Streetwise Maps
$1.78

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Streetwise Downtown Manhattan Map - Laminated Street Map of Downtown Manhattan, NY - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated subway station locations

This map covers the following areas:
Main Downtown Manhattan Map 1:12,000

The STREETWISE® Downtown Manhattan Map provides an up close view of the lower portion of Manhattan. The home of Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange and the center of Manhattan’s financial life, Downtown Manhattan is also home to City Hall, Police Headquarters, several state and federal court houses and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Tribeca, the artsy TRIangle BElow CAnal, has high end restaurants and neighborhood taverns. It’s a real neighborhood where you’ll find the well off and those who are still hanging on to cheap lofts they first moved into decades ago. A world class film festival that takes place each spring features an outdoor drive-in. Watching a great film outside at the edge of the Hudson is worth a trip in itself.

The South Street Seaport area of piers 16 and 17 offers dining, shopping and a maritime museum that brings you back to when New York was a major port. You can board several of the historic vessels that are part of the fleet owned by the Seaport Museum, including the Peking, one of the largest sailing vessels ever built. A venture on the water of a different nature can be had by taking the Staten Island Ferry. The 25 minute ride gives you a breathtaking view of Manhattan Harbor, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Best of all...it’s free!

Battery Park City is a quiet residential neighborhood with a beautiful waterfront esplanade. Next door is Battery Park, location for the Castle Clinton National Monument. A precursor to Ellis Island, this is where you purchase tickets for the ferry to the Statue of Liberty.

Also in Battery Park is the Fritz Koenig sculpture The Sphere, which once stood on the plaza at the World Trade Center. Damaged, but not destroyed, it stands as a memorial to the events of September 11, 2001. The site of the World Trade Center is indicated on the map as well as the positions of two viewing areas.

This map is highly detailed with major buildings, sites, government addresses, hotels, subway stops and ferry terminals clearly drawn and color coded. The index list all streets, Government and education sites, hotels, parks & plazas, places of interest, post offices and prominent office buildings. If lower NYC is your destination, than the STREETWISE® Downtown Manhattan Map is what you need.

Our pocket size map of Downtown Manhattan is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® Downtown Manhattan map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® Downtown Manhattan map today and you too can navigate this area like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.

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Life Below: The New York City Subway
Christophe Agou
$7.75

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Since the early 1990s, Christophe Agou, a French photographer, has been taking pictures of New York. He has developed a love for the city and an uncanny feel for the look of the ordinary. The New York subway has captured the imaginations of photographers from Walter Evans to Bruce Davidson. But never has it been so powerfully and lyrically portrayed as in Agou's carefully orchestrated sequences where the searing images haunt and intrigue us at the same time. Bridging the worlds of documentary and art photography, Life Below is a series of frozen moments, revealing fear, love, affection, stress and solitude. These are compellingly intimate photographs of people from all walks of life, in a meditative state before they put on a mask.

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The Subway and the City: Celebrating a Century
Stan Fischler
$28.21

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An audacious and all-encompassing book about New York's underground, The Subway and the City has everything a fan of the city and its trains could want.

568 Pages with more than 400 photographs, including over 375 vintage photographs never before seen in print!

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Subway City: Riding the Trains, Reading New York
Michael W. Brooks
$17.44

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Subway City explores New York's transit system as both fact and metaphor. Brooks traces the development of the subway from its inception as the newest and most efficient public transportation system to its decline as an overcrowded and dangerous part of city life. The crowded cars gave Harold Lloyd material for comedy, fueled William Randolph Hearst's crusade against the Traction Trust, and convinced Lewis Mumford that improved transit was a futile means of solving the city's problems. Brooks explores films which have dramatized the dangers lurking below ground, and examines the infamous Bernhard Goetz shooting that made the subway a symbol of urban malaise. More hopefully, he describes the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's station improvements and ambitious programs for Music Underground, Poetry-in-Transit, and Arts-in-Transit, as keys to the city's renewal. Brooks probes the image of the subway in the work of such artistic and literary figures as Reginald Marsh, John Dos Passos, Hart Crane, Walker Evans, Tom Wolfe, Saul Bellow, Red Grooms, and Keith Haring. He uses the work of Isabel Bishop, Betty Smith, Minna Citron, and Donna Dennis to show how women have experienced the subway. And he shows how Langston Hughes, Ann Petry, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and LeRoi Jones have used the subway to explore the city's racial tensions.

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Caillou on the Subway (Out and About series)
Johanne Mercier
$1.10

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Caillou takes a ride on the subway for the first time!

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Subways (Pull Ahead Books)
Mary Winget
$3.98

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New York City Subway Trains: 12 Classic Punch and Build Trains
New York Transit Museum
$6.89

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The New York City Subway system celebrates its 100th anniversary on October 27, 2004, but you can bring the romance of the old subway alive today with the Subway Punch-out Book. The book includes 15 easy-to-assemble punch-out train cars that are modeled after the historic old trains from the New York Transit Museum archives. The cars are printed on full-color laminated paper, with identifying historical information printed on the bottom of each. It's a fun book that sneaks in some fascinating history of America's first subway system, and it's the perfect gift for any New Yorker or New York-a-phile you might know!

Ride the subway down memory lane with pictures of cars such as:

o The classic R32/R38, also known as the Brightliners

o The traditional New York Subway Car that ran on every part of the IRT subway and was known for its speed and reliability

o The famous BMT D-Type, the best-loved and most fun to ride BMT car with its distinctive appearance inside and out

The New York Transit Museum is home to more than 100 years of transit lore and memorabilia. The museum's central facility is housed in an authentic 1930s subway station in Brooklyn Heights.

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The Subway Chronicles: Scenes from Life in New York
$1.36

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Equal parts hilarious, poignant, and heartbreaking, The Subway Chronicles is a journey into New York’s underground with some of today’s most loved writers

Some seven million people board the New York City subway every day, each one with a story to tell. The Subway Chronicles collects twenty-seven of the tales, dramas and comedies that unfold during the daily commute. From the “mole people” living in the subway tunnels, to the transit employees working behind the scenes, to the locals and tourists riding shoulder-to- shoulder in harmony, discord, or indifference, The Subway Chronicles offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives on this most public of spaces.

Prominent New York writers weigh in:
* Jonathan Lethem confesses his childhood subway sins
* Colson Whitehead offers mass-transit tips for newcomers to the city
* Francine Prose recalls the thrill and apprehension of riding alone as a teenage girl
* Calvin Trillin pokes fun at the classic New York tendency to be skeptical about everything
* Stan Fischler delights in memories of riding the open-air train cars to Coney Island as a boy