Offers readers the factual account of how the first section of the New York City's subway system was able to transport its many passengers from areas in lower M

But as it is in no other city on earth, the subway of New York is intimately woven into the fabric and identity of the city itself.

When it first opened on October 27, 1904, the New York City subway ran twenty-two miles from City Hall to 145th Street and Lenox Avenue—the longest stretch ev

"New York wouldn't be New York without the subway. This one-time engineering marvel that united and expanded the city has been a cultural touchstone for the las

More than 250 extraordinary photographs--including both newly commissioned color photographs and period images from the New York Transit Museum archives--chroni