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Subway: The Curiosities, Secrets, and Unofficial History of the New York City Transit System

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, 2020
ISBN: 9780762467891
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This dynamic visual history of the world’s largest transit system -- in all its intriguing, colorful, and even seedy glory -- is packed with fascinating facts and hundreds of compelling photographs.

When the first New York subway line opened in 1904, it was the most advanced in the world and a source of enormous civic pride. Today, it is an essential function to the lives of New Yorkers and a perennial cultural touchstone. To be a New Yorker is to take the train. To celebrate it, or grumble about it.

Subway: The History, Curiosities, and Secrets of the New York City Transit System by John E. Morris is both a vivid history of this great transportation system and an exploration of its impact on the city and popular culture. The book covers every remarkable moment, from the technical obstacles and corruption that impeded plans for an underground rail line in the 1800s, to the current state of the system and plans for the future; profiles of the colorful, forgotten characters who built and restored the subway; graphics and imagery showing the evolution of subway cars and the way fares are collected; how subway etiquette rules have evolved with society; great subway chase scenes and songs about the subway; a look at abandoned stations and half-built tunnels; and more.

In this visually stunning work, packed with original research, journalist and bestselling author John Morris brings life to this one-time engineering marvel that has united and expanded the city for the last 116 years.

"With a culture all its own, the subway truly is a city beneath the city. In Subway, John Morris takes readers on a breezy ride through that world that will inform and entertain everyday straphangers, transit aficionados, and even those who’ve never passed through the turnstiles."—Jose Martinez, senior transit reporter at Thecity.nyc

"In a rollicking, fact-filled narrative and with hundreds of rarely seen images, John Morris tells the story of the birth of the New York City subway system, and how this underground world of tunnels and rails forever changed the shape and feel of the city."—Esther Crain, founder of the website Ephemeral New York and author of The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910

"An encyclopedic history of the subway system. It’s the historical record."—Richard Ravitch, former chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority

  • Title: Subway: The Curiosities, Secrets, and Unofficial History of the New York City Transit System
  • Author: John E. Morris
  • Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
  • Print Publication Date: 2020
  • Logos Release Date: 2023
  • Pages: 264
  • Language: English
  • Resources: 1
  • Format: Digital › Ebook
  • ISBNs: 9780762467891, 9780762467907, 0762467908, 0762467894
  • Resource ID: LLS:9780762467891
  • Resource Type: Monograph
  • Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T06:59:04Z

John E. Morris has been fascinated by trains and transit systems since childhood, and has indulged this passion while pursuing careers as a lawyer, later as a journalist. He has worked as an editor and reporter at the American Lawyer magazine, The Deal, Dow Jones, and Bloomberg News, and he's the coauthor with David Carey of King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone, a history of the Blackstone Group and the private equity industry. He holds an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a JD from Harvard Law School. He lives in New York.

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