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Forest Hills

By Ray Romano (foreword by)

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9780738597850 | Arcadia Pub, February 18, 2013, cover price $21.99

Frank K. Hain and the Manhattan Railway Company: The Elevated Railway, 1875-1903

Product Description: Organized under the Rapid Transit Act of 1875, the Manhattan Railway Company (commonly known as the Manhattan Elevated Railway, or the "el") dominated public transportation in late 19th-century New York City. Its four lines extended the length of Manhattan Island into the Bronx, with 334 steam locomotives carrying 1,122 passenger cars over 102 miles of track...read more

By Peter Murray Hain

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9780786464050 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 12, 2011, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Organized under the Rapid Transit Act of 1875, the Manhattan Railway Company (commonly known as the Manhattan Elevated Railway, or the "el") dominated public transportation in late 19th-century New York City.

Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story

Product Description: For years, the signs in the New York City subway system were a bewildering hodge-podge of lettering styles, sizes, shapes, materials, colors, and messages. The original mosaics (dating from as early as 1904), displaying a variety of serif and sans serif letters and decorative elements, were supplemented by signs in terracotta and cut stone...read more

By Paul Shaw

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9780262015486 | 1 edition (Mit Pr, February 11, 2011), cover price $42.95 | About this edition: For years, the signs in the New York City subway system were a bewildering hodge-podge of lettering styles, sizes, shapes, materials, colors, and messages.

Secret Subway

Product Description: This is the incredible story of the visionary engineer who built New York City’s first subway. The Secret Subway is the gripping tale of a man whose vision was years ahead of his time; a man whose dream was crushed by the greed and political jockeying for power that characterized the city in the days of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall...read more

By Martin W. Sandler

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9781426304637 | Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books, May 12, 2009, cover price $26.90 | About this edition: This is the incredible story of the visionary engineer who built New York City’s first subway.

Secret Subway: The Fascinating Tale of an Amazing Feat of Engineering

By Martin W. Sandler

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9781426304620 | Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books, May 12, 2009, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This is the incredible story of the visionary engineer who built New York City’s first subway.

Art and the Subway: New York Underground

By Tracy Fitzpatrick

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9780813544526 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 30, 2009, cover price $29.95

A Subway for New York

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 Manhattan to the Upper West Side in just a matter of minutes--and for only a nickel!

By David Weitzman

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9780374372842 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 29, 2005, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: 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 Manhattan to the Upper West Side in just a matter of minutes--and for only a nickel.

9780375825378 | Crown Pub, June 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Text and photographs describe the process of constructing the New York City subway system at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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9780375925375 | Crown Pub, June 1, 2004, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Text and photographs describe the process of constructing the New York City subway system at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Subways: The Tracks That Built New York City

A lavishly illustrated history of New York City's subway system celebrates its one hundredth anniversary with profiles of the memorable personalities responsible for designing, building, and riding the city's subways; a detailed account of its construction and growth; and rare subway memorabilia, archival photographs, and interviews with New Yorkers. 25,000 first printing.

By Lorraine B. Diehl

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9781400052271 | Clarkson Potter, October 1, 2004, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: An illustrated history of New York City's subway system profiles the personalities responsible for designing and building the subway; recounts its construction and growth; and offers rare subway memorabilia and archival photographs.

The New York Subway: Its Construction And Equipment Interborough Rapid Transit 1904

By Brian J. Cudahy (editor)

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9780823224012 | Centennial edition (Fordham Univ Pr, September 1, 2004), cover price $35.00

722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York

A thorough history follows the evolution of the New York subway system from visionary idea, through political machinations and feats of urban planning, to engineering reality, and looks at the diverse ways in which mass transportation has shaped New York City and the lives of its inhabitants. Reprint.

By Clifton Hood

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9780671677565 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Recounts the construction of the New York City subway system, and discusses the political, social, and engineering aspects

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9780801880544 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, July 13, 2004), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A thorough history follows the evolution of the New York subway system from visionary idea, through political machinations and feats of urban planning, to engineering reality, and looks at the diverse ways in which mass transportation has shaped New York City and the lives of its inhabitants.

9780801852442 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 1, 1995), cover price $18.95

Subwayland: Adventures in the World Beneath New York

The author of the 'Tunnel Vision' column from The New York Times journeys beneath the streets of New York City to reveal the subterranean world of the subways and its colorful inhabitants, wildlife, customs, and politics, and looks at the meaning of the subway in terms of the life of the city. Original.

By Randy Kennedy

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9780312324346 | Griffin, February 1, 2004, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The author of the 'Tunnel Vision' column from The New York Times journeys beneath the streets of New York City to reveal the subterranean world of the subways and its colorful inhabitants, wildlife, customs, and politics, and looks at the meaning of the subway in terms of the life of the city.

The New York Subways

Traces the history of the underground transportation system in New York City, discussing the politics involved, how it was financed, the men who built it, and the construction techniques. (view table of contents)

By Lesley A. Dutemple

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9780822503781 | Lerner Pub Group, October 1, 2002, cover price $27.93 | About this edition: Traces the history of the underground transportation system in New York City, discussing the politics involved, how it was financed, the men who built it, and the construction techniques.

Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City

A hip, trenchant new study of grafitti art shows how hip-hop art moved from the subways of New York into the mainstream, and then acceptability on the international art scene. Simultaneous.

By Ivor Miller

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9781578064649 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, August 1, 2002, cover price $60.00

9780070399464, titled "World" | Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School, January 1, 1983, cover price $35.64 | also contains World

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9781578064656 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, August 1, 2002, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A hip, trenchant new study of grafitti art shows how hip-hop art moved from the subways of New York into the mainstream, and then acceptability on the international art scene.

9780070400344, titled "Social Process in Hawaii" | Custom edition (McGraw-Hill College, January 1, 1995), cover price $27.70 | also contains Social Process in Hawaii

Transit Talk: New York's Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories

New York City transit workers share their stories and adventures of working in the subways and the buses (view table of contents)

By Robert W. Snyder

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9780813525761 | Rutgers Univ Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: New York City transit workers share their stories and adventures of working in the subways and the buses

Paperback:

9780813525778 | Rutgers Univ Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: New York City transit workers share their stories and adventures of working in the subways and the buses

Underground Woman: My Four Years As a New York City Subway Conductor

Product Description: Take a wild ride through the New York City subway system with author Marian Swerdlow, one of the first women subway conductors. In the days when subway cars were canvas for graffiti murals and there were no toilets for women employees, Swerdlow trained in Manhattan's underworld of tunnels and learned how to cope with its dangers and frustrations...read more

By Marian Swerdlow

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9781566396097 | Temple Univ Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $66.50 | About this edition: Take a wild ride through the New York City subway system with author Marian Swerdlow, one of the first women subway conductors.

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9781566396103 | Temple Univ Pr, March 5, 1998, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Take a wild ride through the New York City subway system with author Marian Swerdlow, one of the first women subway conductors.

Subway City: Riding the Trains, Reading New York

Product Description: None of the world's great cities is as closely identified with its subway as New York. Its trains provide much more than just rapid transit. They give New Yorkers a powerful symbol of their metropolis, one that they use to express both their hopes and their fears for the urban future...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Michael W. Brooks

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9780813523965 | Rutgers Univ Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: None of the world's great cities is as closely identified with its subway as New York.

The New York Subway System

Discusses the history of the New York City subway system

By Tim McNeese

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9781560064275 | Lucent Books, June 1, 1997, cover price $28.70 | About this edition: Discusses the history of the New York City subway system

Under the Sidewalks of New York: The Story of the Greatest Subway System in the World

Covers the history of New York City's rapid transit system from its conception to the present, giving attention to the technical, political, financial and human aspects of that history

By Brian J. Cudahy

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9780828906852 | Rev sub edition (Stephen Greene Pr, October 1, 1988), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Covers the history of New York City's rapid transit system from its conception to the present, giving attention to the technical, political, financial and human aspects of that history

Paperback:

9780823216185 | 2 rev sub edition (Fordham Univ Pr, September 1, 1995), cover price $35.00

Underground Harmonies: Music and Politics in the Subways of New York

This is the first book on New York's subway musicians--modern troubadours who perform on platforms, mezzanines, and even trains pounding through the city. Illustrating her account with captivating photos, Susie J. Tanenbaum draws on interviews with musicians and their audiences to explore both the vibrant culture and the intricate politics of subway music.

By Susie J. Tanenbaum

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9780801430510 | Cornell Univ Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This is the first book on New York's subway musicians--modern troubadours who perform on platforms, mezzanines, and even trains pounding through the city.

Paperback:

9780801482229 | Cornell Univ Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $30.95

Social Process in Hawaii

By Manicas

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9780070400344 | Custom edition (McGraw-Hill College, January 1, 1995), cover price $27.70 | also contains Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City

Gotham Turnstiles: A Visual Depiction of Rapid Transit in the New York Metropolitan Area from 1958-1968

Product Description: Full color pictorial of the rapid transit systems in and around New York City, taken between 1958 and 1968. Photos cover the IRT-BMT-IND Divisions, the Newark City subway, the South Brooklyn Railway, the Hudson & Manhattan-PATH, and the Staten Island Rapid Transit. With maps.

By John Henderson

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9780962903786 | H & M Productions, May 1, 1992, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Full color pictorial of the rapid transit systems in and around New York City, taken between 1958 and 1968.

Subway Lives: 24 Hours in the Life of the New York City Subway

Describes one day in the life of the New York City subway system, discussing birth, death, theft, art, panhandling, derailments, accordian players and others, as seen on the Big Apple's trains

By Jim Dwyer

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9780517584453 | 1st edition (Crown Pub, October 1, 1991), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Describes one day in the life of the New York City subway system, discussing birth, death, theft, art, panhandling, derailments, accordian players and others, as seen on the Big Apple's trains

New York City Subway Guide

Product Description: Book by Israelowitz, Oscar

By Oscar Israelowitz

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9780961103675 | Oscar Israelowitz, June 1, 1989, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Book by Israelowitz, Oscar

Subway Gunman: A Juror's Account of the Bernard Goetz Trial

A juror in the Berhnard Goetz trial offers his observations on the noted case, profiling the personalities of the major players and outlining the scope of information with which the jury had to work

By Mark Lesly and Charles Shuttleworth

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9780945167082 | British Amer Pub Ltd, September 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A juror in the Berhnard Goetz trial offers his observations on the noted case, profiling the personalities of the major players and outlining the scope of information with which the jury had to work

World

By Alma Graham and Len Martelli

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9780070399464 | Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School, January 1, 1983, cover price $35.64 | also contains Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City

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