List of Illustrations
PART I. HOW SHALL WE REACH GOTHAM?
1. “We Must Find a Way to Cross”
2. Haskins’s Tunnel and Lindenthal’s Bridge
3. “The Ablest Man This Railway Ever Produced”
4. “The North River Bridge Matter”
5. “A Severe Disappointment”
6. “It Might Offer the Solution”
7. “Get a Little of the Tenderloin”
8. “Crooked and Greedy”
9. “Someone in the Penn Is Leaking”
10. “The Town Is On Fire”
11. “We Shall Make Our Fight Aboveboard”
12. “Ugly Rumors of Boodle”
PART II. THE CROSSING
13. “We Are Not Making a Mistake”
14. “A Work Unsought”
15. “Drilling of First Hole”
16. “The Shield Is Ready to Be Shoved”
17. “Slow Progress Has Been Made”
18. “Disturbed about North River Tunnels”
19. “Would Mr. Cassatt Be Resigning?”
20. “Death Stalks Alongside Them”
21. “The Shields Have Met Exactly”
22. “The Only Railroad Statesman”
23. “New York City Shaken”
24. “The Way Is Stony and Wet”
25. “Officially Declare the Station Open”
26. Coda
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliographic Notes
Index