Secret Subway: The Fascinating Tale Of An Amazing Feat Of Engineering
Martin W Sandler
It's the 1860s and New York City's streets are swarming with immigrants and made deadly by hundreds of horse-drawn carriages leaving the streets with tons of manure.A brilliant engineer, Alfred Beach, tackles the problem by working secretly at night more than twenty feet underground, with dim lighting and inclaustrophobic conditions, storing the dirt in a basement, and carting it away in the dark.What happens when his secret plan is discovered?
