Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels by Jill Jonnes

Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels

Jill Jonnes

384 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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The epic story of the struggle to connect New York City to the rest of the nation The demolition of Penn Station in 1963 destroyed not just a soaring neoclassical edifice, but also a building that commemorated one of the last century’s great engi...

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