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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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1957: NYC's Last Street Car Line Closes |
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1927: Holland Tunnel Opens |
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1964: Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Opens |
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1917: Horse-Drawn Trolleys Retired |
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1867: World's First Elevated Railway Tested |
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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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Golden Age of Trolleys |
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Street Cars in Long Island |
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The Naming of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge-Story |
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The Other Side of
the Tracks |
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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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Transportation Revolution |
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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 |
