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As the population of New York - and specifically Manhattan - grew throughout the 19th century, boundaries grew strained and surface transportation increasingly difficult. However, through the vision and financial backing of a handful of wealthy investors, by the early part of the 20th-century New Yorkers were living in the outlying boroughs of The Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn, and commuting across the rivers into Manhattan on a system of public transportation that in scope is still unrivalled. In this text Clifton Hood traces the history of the New York City subway system - the planners and powerbrokers, the politics and the economics that surrounded the enterprise.

"A clear, perceptive and carefully researched study of this engineering feat and the ways in which the subway led to an expansion of the metropolitan area." -- Publishers Weekly

"One of the best urban-transportation histories to come down the tracks in a long time... In this age, when privatization is widely hailed as a cure for all that ails public life, Hood's book provides some useful perspective." -- The Sciences

"A fascinating story... Hood's extensively researched and highly readable book... conveys the enormity of the project in terms of size, technical challenges faced, and personal tragedies incurred... A fine urban transportation history." -- Lexington Quarterly

""An eminently readable book... Describes how the subway attempted to meet the enormous need to move urban residents far faster than any existing form of mass transit (primarily the elevated railway and the streetcar) and disperse the growing population into unsettled areas at the fringe of the city." -- Railroad History

"An interesting read, describing how the subway helped shape New York City." -- Trains