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Second Avenue Subway: Building New York City’s Most Famous Thing Never Built tells an entertaining and enlightening story about the multi-faceted challenges faced by critical infrastructure projects—challenges involving politics, engineering, community relations, technology, and even unexpected geology. And it tells how this project—almost miraculously, after nearly a hundred years of planning—was finally completed through the grit and determination of everyone involved, from the union workers toiling in subterranean muck, to project engineers, and all the way up to the governor of New York.
Dan McNichol is the best-selling author of the book The Big Dig. Co-author Bill Goodrich was the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) senior executive in charge of building Phase 1 of the Second Avenue Subway. And Patrick Cashin, an award-winning photographer, worked with the MTA for more than twenty years.
Second Avenue Subway: Building New York City’s Most Famous Thing Never Built
Creative direction, layout, and graphic design for a 350-page book that details the tortuous history of New York City’s most debated, promised, and—until recently—never delivered subway line.
Contributors
Authors
Dan McNichol is a number one best-selling author and an award-winning journalist, whose published books, articles and thought-leadership papers are about mega infrastructure projects and the infrastructural needs of the United States.
Bill Goodrich has worked for over forty years as a transportation infrastructure program executive, professional structural engineer, and construction manager, and he was New York City’s MTA’s senior executive in charge of building Phase 1 of the Second Avenue Subway.
Photography
Patrick Cashin, an award-winning photographer, spent over twenty years with New York City’s MTA and his photographs have appeared in the New York Times, the Sunday Times, the New York Daily News, the London Times and Engineering News Record, to name just a few.
