Second Avenue Subway: Building New York City's Most Famous Thing Never Built

By: Dan McNichol, Bill Goodrich

Second Avenue Subway is the newly published, beautifully photographed, well written and exhaustively researched book on the first new subway line added to the New York City's subway system since the Great Depression of the 1930s. New York City's subway system is the engine that powers the world's greatest financial juggernaut - New York City. This book is a vital contribution to New York City's long and sometimes tortured history of urban planning. The sharp, lucid narrative comes to life with brilliant photographs, maps, graphics which details the past, present and future plans of New York City's newest - arguably its most significant - subway line - Second Avenue, a.k.a the T-Line. Best Selling author Dan McNichol has written several books about the nation's greatest transportation engineering and construction projects. In Second Avenue Subway McNichol invited Bill Goodrich, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) most senior project executive on the subway project, to bring the reader into the creation of three deep rock subway stations ten stories beneath Manhattan Island. McNichol's prose and Goodrich's engineering prowess provide a behind the scenes journey into the successful construction of the decade long, five billion dollar, mega project. MTA photographer Patrick Cashin artistically captured the entire decade long project - from ground breaking to ribbon cutting. The book is fully licensed by the MTA, a first of its type of collaboration.

• 10 x 10 Hardcover
• ISBN 979-8-98946430-2
• 336 Pages

Editor: Joseph Stanford 

Designer: Denisse Leatxe

Photographer: Patrick Cashin