[PDF] Secret Subway eBook

Author : Shana Corey
Publisher : Anne Schwartz Books
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0375870717

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From an acclaimed author and a New York Times Best Illustrated artist comes the fascinating, little-known—and true!—story of New York City’s first subway. New York City in the 1860s was a mess: crowded, disgusting, filled with garbage. You see, way back in 1860, there were no subways, just cobblestone streets. That is, until Alfred Ely Beach had the idea for a fan-powered train that would travel underground. On February 26, 1870, after fifty-eight days of drilling and painting and plastering, Beach unveiled his masterpiece—and throngs of visitors took turns swooshing down the track. The Secret Subway will wow readers, just as Beach’s underground train wowed riders over a century ago. A New York Public Library Best Book for Kids, 2016

Author : Martin W. Sandler
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781426304620

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In 1869, Alfred Beach wanted to build America's first air-powered railway below New York City, but Boss Tweed, powerful politician and notorious crook, opposed. Working under night cover, Beach and his crew carved a three-hundred-foot tunnel beneath a department store. Before long, the project was discovered and the public raved about its potential. But no further tunnels were ever built. What happened to Beach's railway, and where is it now?

Author : Shana Corey
Publisher : Anne Schwartz Books
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 12,26 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 030797457X

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From an acclaimed author and a New York Times Best Illustrated artist comes the fascinating, little-known—and true!—story of New York City’s first subway. New York City in the 1860s was a mess: crowded, disgusting, filled with garbage. You see, way back in 1860, there were no subways, just cobblestone streets. That is, until Alfred Ely Beach had the idea for a fan-powered train that would travel underground. On February 26, 1870, after fifty-eight days of drilling and painting and plastering, Beach unveiled his masterpiece—and throngs of visitors took turns swooshing down the track. The Secret Subway will wow readers, just as Beach’s underground train wowed riders over a century ago. A New York Public Library Best Book for Kids, 2016

Author : Matthew Litwack
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Graffiti
ISBN : 9781584235545

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Only a handful of transit workers, daring explorers and graffiti writers have experienced the full scope of the New York subway system. Beneath The Streets reveals this world for the first time with fantastic photographs captured from throughout the tunnels and byways of the subway. Although it provides service to over 5 million riders every day, the subway is for most a sealed system. Very few of its patrons are aware of the extent of this vast underground infrastructure. The authors of this important historical work first discovered this hidden world in the process of photographing graffiti found below ground in the subway system. Now their riveting documentary work opens up this subterranean maze, including 600 miles of active track as well as abandoned sections and disused stations, for all to experience.

Author : Julia Sarcone-Roach
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375858598

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Never was there a subway car who loved her job more than Jessie. From morning to night she carried all sorts of people all sorts of places—to work and school and World's Fairs, over bridges and through tunnels—sometimes she even took a pigeon along for the ride! But as time passed, sleek new silver cars began to take over the tracks, banishing Jessie to an abandoned lot. What will she do with no passengers to carry? And where will she go now that she's no longer welcome on the tracks? Based on the true story of 1960's-era subway cars that are now being used to create artificial reefs in the Atlantic, this stunningly illustrated second book from Julia Sarcone-Roach is sure to delight scuba diving historians and kids alike.

Author : David Bownes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300245793

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Travel under the streets of London with this lavishly illustrated exploration of abandoned, modified, and reused Underground tunnels, stations, and architecture.

Author : Julia Solis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000101304

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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.

Author : Larry Dane Brimner
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781590781760

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A history of the early subways.

Author : Allen J. Singer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780738523149

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Cincinnati emerged from a tumultuous 19th century as a growing metropolis committed to city planning. The most ambitious plan of the early twentieth century, the Cincinnati Subway, was doomed to failure. Construction began in 1920 and ended in 1927 when the money had run out. Today, two miles of empty subway tunnels still lie beneath Cincinnati, waiting to be used. The Cincinnati Subway tells the whole story, from the turbulent times in the 1880s to the ultimate failure of "Cincinnati's White Elephant." Along the way, the reader will learn about what was happening in Cincinnati during the growth of the subway-from the Courthouse Riots in 1884 to life in the Queen City during World War II.

Author : Nadja Spiegelman
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 2020-05
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 1943145482

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Lost on a school fieldtrip, Pablo learns to navigate the New York subway and his feelings about his new home.