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

By Jill Jonnes

Categories: History

Jill Jonnes tells the story of how the Pennsylvania Railroad, under Alexander Cassatt, built tunnels under the Hudson and East Rivers and the original Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan in the first decade of the 1900s. The book covers the engineering challenges, the labor and the deaths in the tunnels, and the politics of Tammany Hall-era New York that the railroad had to overcome.

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• Ryan Holiday: “Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels by Jill Jonnes (it's a bargain book so it wasn't a waste but I was hoping for some urban anthropology and this is not it)”