商品簡介
This book examines twenty specific events in the history of New York's mass transit system that occurred between 1940 and 1968 and includes a large number of previously unpublished photos from those times. The 1940-68 period was chosen because it brackets two sea change events. In June 1940 the subways became completely publicly owned and operated when the city of New York formally took title to the previously private BMT and IRT subways, and merged their managements into the city-owned IND subway. In 1968 the subways and associated bus routes of the New York City Transit Authority were folded into a new public agency, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), whose mandate was to unify overall planning and financing for all mass transportation services in a twelve-county region encompassing New York City's boroughs, the Hudson Valley, and Long Island.
Some events are well known, such as the June 1940 subway system unification. Others, such as the contentious Fifth Avenue Coach Lines labor dispute in 1962, which led to that firm's sudden end, are long forgotten. Because the transit system is an extension of the greater city, the photos allow the reader to see the New York of the 1940-68 period, a time of many changes that had a lasting impact on the contemporary city and its transit system.
作者簡介
Andrew Sparberg has spent forty years in the transportation field. He was at Tri-State Regional Planning Commission for eight years, and then spent twenty-five years at Long Island Rail Road. After retiring from LIRR he was Director of the Railway Program at Technical Career Institutes, and is currently an adjunct at St. John's University and City University of New York. He was technical editor of The Long Island Railroad, and associate editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City.
