Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels by Jill Jonnes
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0143113240 | 384 Pages | EPUB | 1.6 MB
Traces the epic story of the struggle to build Penn Station, in a narrative account that describes how the nation's most powerful railroad tackled Tammany Hall corruption, the machinations of labor agitators, and the forces of nature in order to create a tunnel system linking Manhattan, New Jersey, and Long Island.