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By Ronald A. Reis

Teeming with a inhabitants of 3.5 million on the finish of the nineteenth century, the island of new york could not meet the city's call for for speedy transit with its horse-drawn trolleys and increased teach strains. manhattan urban wanted a subway method. After 4 years of digging and diverting miles of utilities and tunneling less than the Harlem River, the city's citizens celebrated a brand new period in mass transit on October 27, 1904, with the outlet of a nine-mile subway course. within the century to come back, the hot York subway may develop and extend to a method that runs 24 hours an afternoon, seven days per week, with 6,400 vehicles, 468 stations, an everyday ridership of 4.5 million, and 842 miles of music - longer than the gap from big apple to Chicago. Politics, graffiti, and incredible development demanding situations mixed to make the development and working of the hot York subway procedure one of many America's maximum civic undertakings.

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