Matthew Algeo, NYC's Secret Subway

from Prairie Journal · host Kaye McIntyre

How did Alfred Beach manage to build a subway in New York City...in secret? KPR's own Matthew Algeo tells the story in "New York City's Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit."

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