Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City
- ISBN-10
- 0801453666
- ISBN-13
- 9780801453663
- Category
- Subways
- Pages
- 360
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- Three Hills
- Author
- Philip Mark Plotch
Description
"The story of the Second Avenue subway, as it symbolizes New York's inability to modernize its infrastructure and reveals the ingredients necessary to build a twenty-first-century megaproject"--
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- 2020-03-15
- 288 pages
- Paperback
- Cornell University Press
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