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"Yikes! What A Way To
Go....NYC's Travel Experience"
An essay written by
Miriam Medina. It discusses the modern day traffic
and fuel situation, with a chronology of NYC's
Travel Experience dating from 1642 to 2000. This
chronology is the
result of extensive research of books, newspapers
and web links.
Posted 4/6/08. |
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Transportation |
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Early Transportation in The City of New York
Pre-1911 |
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Omnibuses 1853 |
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New York City Tid-Bits: Transportation |
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Modes
Of Travel 1868 |
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Evolution of the Ferry-Boat 1692-1890 By Fletcher
Dubois |
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Hackney Coaches, Carriages, and Cabs.1869 |
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Reminiscences of The North River Traveling,
Steamboats, &c. 1852 |
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City
Railroads 1865
Posted 9/25/06 |
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Famous Hudson River Steamboats
Posted 10/2/06 |
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The Elevated Railways Pre: 1887
Posted 4/5/07 |
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The Giant Steamer Docks on Manhattan
Posted 4/12/07 |
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A brief history of New York City's Transportation |
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New York Area
Roads, Crossings and Exits |
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United States public transportation history (NYC
included) |
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Early Adventures With The Automobile |
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19th Century Buggies & Wagons |
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Early Rapid Transit in Brooklyn, 1878 to 1913 |
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The Carriage Era in New York City |
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A
brief history of Fare control |
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New York City Subway History |
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History of the Independent Subway 1921-1940 and the
Ind
Division 1940-Present |
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Subways IRT, BMT, IND Station by Station |
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Otis Online, History of the Elevator |
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The Trolley Car (Take a journey through the history
of this important form of
urban transportation. ) |
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An
Early History of New York City's First Elevated
Railway |
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Day
one on the IRT 1904 Press Coverage |
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New York City Transit...History and Chronology |
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Downtown Brooklyn Trolleys |
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Mike's Railway History,The Way It Was in 1935 |
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Our
Checkered Past-The CheckerTaxi-cab in New York
History |
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Taxicab History |
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New
York City Transit Scenes: Past and Present, A
photographic and historical tour of New York's First
Subway line, the IRT. |
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Trolleys of Washington Heights and Inwood |
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Long Island
Railroad History Website |
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Oxcarts To Subways |
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Automobile History-As I Remember The Automobile |
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Carriages, Coaches and Cars |
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Railroad |
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1999: Last Checker Cab Retired |
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1927: Holland Tunnel Opens |
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1964: Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Opens |
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1939: Bronx Whitestone Bridge Opens |
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1903: NYC Streetcars Inspire the Invention of
Windshield Wipers |
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Transportation Before the Subway |
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The IRT Arrives At 137th Street |
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The IND arrives at 145th Street |
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Commuting On The Ground: The Trolly and The Bus |
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The
New York Rapid Transit Decision of 1900 (Prologue) |
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The NY-Brooklyn Tunnel That Was Never Built
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New York City Transit Early Transportation Methods |
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Automotive History |
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The Boatyard Ruins
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The Hudson River, An American Treasure |
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New
York City Highwheel |
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The History of Roads and Asphalt |
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Staten Island
Ferry |
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A Timeline of Maritime New York 1524-1860 |
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Subway Tokens: A Brief History |
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Building The Long Island Railroad |
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The
Holland Tunnel History |
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The Moving Underground City |
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The Naming of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge-Story |
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Heroes of the Railway Service Part I: Notes From
Experience Pgs.653-656 By
Charles De Lano Hine Century Magazine March Vol. 57
Issue 5 |
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Heroes of the Railway Service Part II General View
Pgs. 656-663 by Gustav Kobbe Century Magazine March Vol. 57 Issue 5 |
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What Lies Beneath: The Architecture of the Subway |
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The coming of the subway to New York: a history of
the New York City subway as reported in the pages of
Railway Age and Railroad Gazette |
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The Automobile Before 1915 |
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Victorian Bicycles & Tricycles |
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The Pedaling History: A Quick History of Bicycles |
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The IRT Opening Dates Timeline |
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The New York Subway Souvenir 1904 with a brief
History |
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Long Island Railroad History-The Dunton Archive |
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New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Gold Bond
1898 |
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New York Central Railroad: Harlem Division |
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Grand Central Terminal |
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Chelsea Piers: A Short History |
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Steamboats of the Hudson RiverLink: |
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Arriving In Style: Treasures of 18th-Century New
York |
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University Heights Bridge |
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Tunnel Vision: New York Subway Construction
Photographs, 1900-1908 |
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The Hell Gate: from "At Sea in the City; New York
From the Water's Edge" |
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Subway University |
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Beach
Pneumatic by Joseph Brennan (Alfred Beach's
Pneumatic Subway and the beginnings of rapid transit
in New York. Mr. Brennan is the Lead Email Systems
Engineer at Columbia University Information
Technology. |
