Underground New York
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New York Underground
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Author : Julia Solis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-10-28
New York Underground written by Julia Solis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-28 with Political Science categories.
Did alligators ever really live in New York's sewers? What's it like to explore the old aqueducts beneath the city? How many levels are beneath Grand Central Station? And how exactly did the pneumatic tube system that New York's post offices used to employ work? In this richly illustrated historical tour of New York's vast underground systems, Julia Solis answers all these questions and much, much more. New York Underground takes readers through ingenious criminal escape routes, abandoned subway stations, and dark crypts beneath lower Manhattan to expose the city's basic anatomy. While the city is justly famous for what lies above ground, its underground passages are equally legendary and tell us just as much about how the city works.
The Tunnel
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Author : Margaret Morton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Tunnel written by Margaret Morton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Homeless persons categories.
One of the oldest surviving homeless communities in New York City has been hidden from public view in an underground train tunnel since the 1970s. Residents dwell in continual darkness along the two-and-a-half mile stretch, which is penetrated only by shafts of light angling through air vents. The residents who have been there longest live alongside the tracks in cinder block bunkers originally used by railroad personnel. Other residents are hidden high above the tracks in recessed niches that are accessible only by climbing. More recent tunnel dwellers have built freestanding structures in the dark alcoves of the tunnel or perched themselves on concrete ledges.
The Mole People
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Author : Jennifer Toth
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 1993
The Mole People written by Jennifer Toth and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Social Science categories.
They are a diverse group, and they choose to live underground for many reasonssome rejecting society and its values, others reaffirming those values in what they view as purer terms, and still others seeking shelter from the harsh conditions on the streets. Their enemies include government agencies and homeless organizations as well as wandering crack addicts and marauding gangs. In communities underground, however, many homeless people find not only a place but also an identity. On these pages Jennifer Toth visits underground New York with various straight-talking guides, from outreach workers and transit police to vetern tunnel dwellers, graffiti artists, and even the "mayor" of a large, highly structured community several levels down.
Art And The Subway
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Author : Tracy Fitzpatrick
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2009
Art And The Subway written by Tracy Fitzpatrick and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.
Explores artistic production surrounding the world's most famous public transportation system, from just before its opening in 1904 onwards. Using images, this work offers perspectives on ways in which the subway has been used as a subject about which to make art, as a site within which to make art, and as a canvas upon which to make art.
New York Underground
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Author : Veretta Cobler
language : en
Publisher: Parkstone Press
Release Date : 2004
New York Underground written by Veretta Cobler and has been published by Parkstone Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Photography categories.
Tragedy came to the Big Apple long before 9/11 with the arrival of a new four-letter world called AIDS that terrorized an entire generation of New Yorkers. It threw the world's freest, most cosmopolitan and culturally advanced city back into a medieval mindset of fear. Photographer Veretta welcomes us back to the last days of a self-confident city that is always ready to party in effusively decorated nightspots. She shows a generation that sang and danced in garish attire through the carefree days that opened up after the Vietnam War, unaware of sordid doings underway that would radically alter their mindset. This book bears witness to the last days of an era before an entire generation of New Yorkers discovered the grief, mourning and despair that comes with the loss of loved ones. Throughout these pages, there is still music, fun and laughter in vibrant garb. Everyone could live it up in the certainty it would last forever.
New York Underground
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Author : Julia Solis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-10-28
New York Underground written by Julia Solis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-28 with Political Science categories.
Did alligators ever really live in New York's sewers? What's it like to explore the old aqueducts beneath the city? How many levels are beneath Grand Central Station? And how exactly did the pneumatic tube system that New York's post offices used to employ work? In this richly illustrated historical tour of New York's vast underground systems, Julia Solis answers all these questions and much, much more. New York Underground takes readers through ingenious criminal escape routes, abandoned subway stations, and dark crypts beneath lower Manhattan to expose the city's basic anatomy. While the city is justly famous for what lies above ground, its underground passages are equally legendary and tell us just as much about how the city works.
Underground Movements
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Author : Sunny Stalter-Pace
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Underground Movements written by Sunny Stalter-Pace and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Popular culture categories.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Subway Stories -- 1. Forming the Subway Habit -- 2. How the Subway became Sublime -- 3. Minding the Gaps in Modernist Poetry -- 4. Underground Assimilation in Ethnic Drama -- 5. Uncanny Migration Narratives -- Conclusion: The Private Subway in the Postmodern City -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.
Underground Woman
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Author : Marian Swerdlow
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 1998
Underground Woman written by Marian Swerdlow and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A white woman in a mostly minority male workplace, Swerdlow helped edit a newsletter, Hell on Wheels, and tried to organize for better working conditions, confronting the Kafkaesque Transit Authority bureaucracy and complacent union leadership. This book presents her account that is laden with anecdotes that range from the funny to the absurd.
The Race Underground
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Author : Doug Most
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2014-02-04
The Race Underground written by Doug Most and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-04 with Transportation categories.
In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding, horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 crippled the entire northeast, a solution had to be found. Two brothers from one of the nation's great families-Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of New York-pursued the dream of his city digging America's first subway, and the great race was on. The competition between Boston and New York played out in an era not unlike our own, one of economic upheaval, life-changing innovations, class warfare, bitter political tensions, and the question of America's place in the world.The Race Underground is peopled with the famous, like Boss Tweed, Grover Cleveland and Thomas Edison, and the not-so-famous, from brilliant engineers to the countless "sandhogs" who shoveled, hoisted and blasted their way into the earth's crust, sometimes losing their lives in the construction of the tunnels. Doug Most chronicles the science of the subway, looks at the centuries of fears people overcame about traveling underground and tells a story as exciting as any ever ripped from the pages of U.S. history. The Race Underground is a great American saga of two rival American cities, their rich, powerful and sometimes corrupt interests, and an invention that changed the lives of millions.
Underground New York
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Author : Cecile Rossant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Underground New York written by Cecile Rossant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.