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100 1 $aJonnes, Jill,$d1952-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85195095
245 10 $aConquering Gotham :$ba Guilded Age epic : the construction of Penn Station and its tunnels /$cJill Jonnes.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2007.
300 $axiv, 368 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [319]-354) and index.
520 1 $a"As the nineteenth century ends, Pennsylvania Railroad president Alexander Cassatt seeks some way - other than huge fleets of ferries from New Jersey - to bring the PRR's tens of millions of passengers into water-locked Gotham. By 1901, the brilliant Cassatt has embarked on a course so ambitious, so visionary that it is denounced as corporate folly. Under his direction, the PRR will build a monumental system of electrified tunnels under the Hudson River, Manhattan, and the East River to Long Island, capping them all with the crown jewel of Pennsylvania Station." "And so begins a high-stakes Gilded Age drama pitting the nation's greatest corporation against the unruly forces of Tammany New York, America's richest city and most important port. Set in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., and featuring such titanic characters as J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Theodore Roosevelt, Boss William Croker, architects Charles McKim and Stanford White, and press lord William Randolph Hearst, this riveting narrative brings to life the feats of politicking and engineering that forever changed New York's physical and psychological geography." "As the PRR secretly assembles land for a terminal amid the whorehouses and dance halls of the Tenderloin vice district, Cassatt outwits Tammany Hull politicians in a bruising fight for the necessary franchise. In the meantime, the engineers and legions of "sandhog" laborers battle the crushing forces of two rivers as they burrow year after year through treacherous glacial soils, suffering blowouts, explosions, labor troubles, and mounting fatalities. In fact, haunting the entire monumental project is a deep secret - PRR engineers fear the Hudson River tunnels aren't safe and might doom the entire project." "Nevertheless, in late 1910, Pennsylvania Station, Charles McKim's great Doric temple to transportation, opens in all its magnificence. As the first trains of the LIRR and the Pennsylvania Railroad travel swiftly under those two ancient rivers, the PRR has done what many believed impossible. It has conquered Gotham. Glittering Manhattan has been connected to the mainland and Long Island, forever Transforming the lives of millions."--BOOK JACKET.
610 20 $aPennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.)$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aTunneling$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aRailroad stations$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aHistoric buildings$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century.
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