New York’s Secret Subway The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit by Matthew Algeo CNU In this lush and enchanting

In this lush and enchanting novel from New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi

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New York’s Secret Subway The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit by Matthew Algeo CNU In this lush and enchantingIn the nineteenth century, Manhattans streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours. Alfred Beach had the perfect solution: build a giant pneumatic tube underneath Broadway from the Battery to Harlem. Air pressure would shoot passengers up and down the island in clean, quiet carriages. But Beach was up against the operators of the horse drawn streetcars and the