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From a nickel to a token : the journey from board of transportation to MTA / / Andrew J. Sparberg



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Autore: Sparberg Andrew J. Visualizza persona
Titolo: From a nickel to a token : the journey from board of transportation to MTA / / Andrew J. Sparberg Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: [Place of publication not identified] : , : Fordham University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
Disciplina: 388.42097471
Soggetto topico: Local transit - New York (State) - New York - History
Transportation - New York (State) - New York - History
Soggetto non controllato: New York Mass Transit
Nickel
Token
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 1940: unification: IRT and BMT join the IND, creating one subway system -- 1941: a strike and a pioneering labor agreement -- 1941: Dyre Avenue subway extension opens -- 1941-1948: Third Avenue transit: rails to rubber -- 1944 and 1950: goodbye to Brooklyn Bridge rails -- 1947-1948: private to public bus operations -- 1948: goodbye to the nickel -- 1947-1956: final decade for Brooklyn trolleys -- 1950: farewell, Lexington Avenue -- 1953-1968: The TA, tokens, and TWU triumphant -- 1953: last double-deck buses operate on Fifth Avenue -- 1954-1956: The BMT and IND begin a courtship -- 1955: sunshine returns to Third Avenue -- 1956: Fifth Avenue coach becomes number one -- 1957-1959: IRT West Side improvement -- 1962: Fifth Avenue coach suddenly disappears -- 1964: World's Fair, Blue Subways, stainless steel subways -- 1966: Mike Quill's last hurrah -- 1967: The BMT and IND marry forever -- 1968: The MTA is created and express buses appear.
Sommario/riassunto: "Chronicle of twenty specific events in the history of New York's mass transit systems between 1940 and 1968, including large numbers of rare photos. 1940 to 1968 was chosen because those years bracket two sea change events - the June 1940 subway unification, and the March 1968 inception of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)"-- Provided by publisher.
Titolo autorizzato: From a nickel to a token  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-6191-3
0-8232-7180-3
0-8232-6192-1
0-8232-6193-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787038403321
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