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History of the New York City Subway System Part 1 Manhattan ELS & the IRT Cummin
History of the New York City Subway System Part 1 The Manhattan ELS and the IRT by Joseph Cunningham and Leonard O Dehart
Soft Cover
103 pages
Copyright 1976
CONTENTS
Foreword i
Chapter One-Subway Proposals, 1
Chapter Two -The Elevated System, 5
Chapter Three -Construction at Last 18
Chapter Four - The Subway Arrives 28
Chapter Five -The Dual Contracts 46
Chapter Six - From Dual Contracts to Unification, 57
Chapter Seven -The I.R.T. Under City Ownership, 70
Appendices
Appendix A -Manhattan Elevated Cars, 89
Appendix B - I.R.T. Subway Cars, 91
Appendix C - Post World War II Cars, 94
Appendix D -Maintenance, 96
Appendix E - Line Letter Codes, 98
Appendix F -Services, 99
Appendix G -Notes, 102
FOREWORD
As first conceived, this New York subway history would have covered all facets of rapid transit in New York City. However, it soon became obvious that such a work would be cumbersome and expensive. Further, it would lose the interest of those interested in any particular aspect of the system's history.
Consequently, it was decided to slant the work toward a general interest theme with sufficient specifics to hold the attention of the layman. Detailed information on finances, politics and law has been generally omitted.
In an attempt to hold costs down and keep a somewhat complex story as simple as possible, a decision was made to divide the work into three parts. This section, the first part, includes the history of the IRT and Manhattan Co. lines, as well as some information on early lines. A forthcoming volume will include the Brooklyn elevated lines, the BRT/BMT subway through the merger of the BMT and IND lines in 1967. A third and final part will trace the development of a separate city operated Independent system from the 1920's, the takeover of the other companies, as well as various policies which affected the other lines (which were discussed in parts I and II).
In researching this field, over 1500 microfilmed newspaper articles were consulted, as well as some 150 reports of the private companies, city and state commissions and authorities.
While many people made helpful comments or suggestions, we would like to give special thanks to the following:Donald W. Harold, for making available photographs, historical material and many anecdotes.
Prof. Arthur Konop, of the Kelly Historical Institute St. Francis College, for his helpful suggestions and for permitting the use of historical material at the Institute.
Prof. Beauvais B. Fox, Jr., of Polytechnic Institute of New York, for historical information and many anecdotes.
Bernard and Lawrence Linder, for making available historical material from their private collection.
Also from their private collections, we would like to thank: Hugh A. Dunne, David M. Rosenthal, Michael A. Silano, Michael A. Rozza.
In addition, we would like to thank: Mr. Waters of the Brooklyn County Clerk's Office, St. Francis College librarians and the Municipal Reference Library librarians.
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