The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway
In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding, horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 crippled the entire…
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