Robert A. Van Wyck, mayor of the greater city of New York, broke ground for the first subway line by City Hall on March 24, 1900. It took four years, six months, and twenty-three days to build the line from City Hall to West 145th Street in Harlem. Things rarely went that quickly ever again. The Routes Not Taken explores the often dramatic stories behind the unbuilt or unfinished subway lines, shedding light on a significant part of New York City’s history that has been almost completely ignored until now. Home to one of the world’s largest subway systems, New York City made constant efforts to expand its underground labyrinth, efforts that were often met with unexpected obstacles: financial shortfalls, clashing agendas of mayors and borough presidents, battles with local community groups, and much more. After discovering a copy of the 1929 subway expansion map, author Joseph Raskin began his own investigation into the city’s underbelly. Using research from libraries, historical societies, and transit agencies throughout the New York metropolitan area, Raskin provides a fascinating history of the Big Apple’s unfinished business that until now has been only tantalizing stories retold by public-transit experts. The Routes Not Taken sheds light on the tunnels and stations that were completed for lines that were never fulfilled: the efforts to expand the Hudson tubes into a fullfledged subway; the Flushing line, and why it never made it past Flushing; a platform underneath Brooklyn’s Nevins Street station that has remained unused for more than a century; and the 2nd Avenue line—long the symbol of dashed dreams—deferred countless times since the original plans were presented in 1929. Raskin also reveals the figures and personalities involved, including why Fiorello LaGuardia could not grasp the importance of subway lines and why Robert Moses found them to be old and boring. By focusing on the unbuilt lines, Raskin illustrates how the existing subway system is actually a Herculean feat of countless political compromises. Filled with illustrations of the extravagant expansion plans, The Routes Not Taken provides an enduring contribution to the transportation history of New York City.
Robert A. Van Wyck, mayor of the greater city of New York, broke ground for the first subway line by City Hall on March 24, 1900. It took four years, six months, and twenty-three days to build the line from City Hall to West 145th Street in Harlem. Things rarely went that quickly ever again. The Routes Not Taken explores the often dramatic stories behind the unbuilt or unfinished subway lines, shedding light on a significant part of New York City’s history that has been almost completely ignored until now. Home to one of the world’s largest subway systems, New York City made constant efforts to expand its underground labyrinth, efforts that were often met with unexpected obstacles: financial shortfalls, clashing agendas of mayors and borough presidents, battles with local community groups, and much more. After discovering a copy of the 1929 subway expansion map, author Joseph Raskin began his own investigation into the city’s underbelly. Using research from libraries, historical societies, and transit agencies throughout the New York metropolitan area, Raskin provides a fascinating history of the Big Apple’s unfinished business that until now has been only tantalizing stories retold by public-transit experts. The Routes Not Taken sheds light on the tunnels and stations that were completed for lines that were never fulfilled: the efforts to expand the Hudson tubes into a fullfledged subway; the Flushing line, and why it never made it past Flushing; a platform underneath Brooklyn’s Nevins Street station that has remained unused for more than a century; and the 2nd Avenue line—long the symbol of dashed dreams—deferred countless times since the original plans were presented in 1929. Raskin also reveals the figures and personalities involved, including why Fiorello LaGuardia could not grasp the importance of subway lines and why Robert Moses found them to be old and boring. By focusing on the unbuilt lines, Raskin illustrates how the existing subway system is actually a Herculean feat of countless political compromises. Filled with illustrations of the extravagant expansion plans, The Routes Not Taken provides an enduring contribution to the transportation history of New York City.
Описание: This issue of Southern Cultures celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the journal's publication with a special issue titled Inside/Outside. The issue features contributions by William Sturkey, Randall Kenan, Jess T. Dugan & Vanessa Fabbre, Erin N. Bush, Oliver Clasper, Alex Macaulay, Emily Lieb, Monique Truong, Joanna Welborn, and Savannah Sipple. This is a single issue.
Автор: Andy Horowitz, Marcie Cohen Ferris, Tom Rankin Название: Southern Cultures: Human/Nature: Volume 27, Number 1 - Spring 2021 Issue ISBN: 0807852961 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807852965 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 1940.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From vanishing coastlines in the Carolinas to the toxic legacies of coal ash, and from reclamations of Indigenous histories in Louisiana to Black radical environmentalism in the Tidewater, meet the Human/Nature issue of Southern Cultures. As guest editor Andy Horowitz writes, this issue ""advocates for a humane vision of how people live in and with the world around them--a view of the environment as, at once, a material landscape that crunches under foot and burns on the skin, and an intellectual terrain, where ideas about place inform people's views of the world.
Автор: Garrett Felber, Marcie Cohen Ferris, T. Dionne Bailey, Tom Rankin Название: Southern Cultures: the Abolitionist South: Volume 27, Number 3 - Fall 2021 Issue ISBN: 0807852988 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807852989 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 1505.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Guest edited by T. Dionne Bailey and Garrett Felber, this issue of Southern Cultures makes visible a radical US South which has long envisioned a world without policing, prisons, or other forms of punishment. A region so often exceptionalized for its brutality and white supremacy is also the seedbed of freedom dreams and radical movement traditions.
Автор: Marcie Cohen Ferris, Regina Bradley, Tom Rankin Название: Southern Cultures: Crafted: Volume 28, Number 1 - Spring 2022 Issue ISBN: 0807852155 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807852156 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2079.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: In the Spring 2022 issue, Southern Cultures examines crafts - from the art of repair to living and dyeing in Swananoa, North Carolina, and from Bahamian beekeeping to barbecuing and meatcraft across the region.
Описание: Making Appalachian Mississippi. Imagining New Earths. Meeting at Two Rivers. Introducing the Winter Issue, guest edited by Zandria F. Robinson.
Автор: Harry L. Watson, Marcie Cohen Ferris Название: Southern Cultures: Left/Right: Volume 25, Number 3 a€“ Fall 2019 Issue ISBN: 0807852899 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807852897 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 1505.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This issue of Southern Cultures celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the journal's publication with a special issue titled Left/Right. The issue features contributions by Joseph Crespino; Dr. William Barber in conversation with Tim Tyson; Stacey Abrams in conversation with Valerie Boyd; Angela P. Hudson; Alison Collis Greene; Janisse Ray in conversation with Amy Wright; Sonny Kelly; Rosa Ortez Cruz interviewed by Lori Fernald Khamala; Jan Rader in conversation with Elaine McMillion Sheldon Joe Shay; Chokwe Antar Lumumba in conversation with Kiese Laymon; Dr. Holly Christopher Lewis interviewed by Ocean Eerie; Diane Roberts; Emily Comer in conversation with Emily Hilliard; Stef Bernal-Martinez; Emily Ruth Rutter; and Jonathan Farmer.
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