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(More customer reviews)Now taken for granted today, the development of the New York subway was and still is a watershed in urban transportation. This one-hour film accurately captures the struggle to gain approval to build an underground transportation network to relieve New York's clogged streets, and the myriad engineering challenges that had to be overcome in order to make the dream a reality. Through archival photographs, transcripts and contemporary newspaper accounts, this documentary also brings this story down to the human level by chronicling the working conditions below the earth, and how the success of this project hinged on the perseverance of just a few people. Well done and highly recommended.
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When a ferocious blizzard ground New York City to a halt in March, 1888, civic leaders finally gave in to the need for an underground rail system. New York Underground tells the story of the longest, most sophisticated electric subway in the world. For four years the streets of New York were ripped apart, but in 1904 when the subway finally opened to "indescribable scenes of crowding and confusion" (The New York Times), it was heralded as the new century's most awesome engineering achievement.
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