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Graphic Design and Architecture, A 20th Century History
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Graphic Design and Architecture, A 20th Century History

by Richard Poulin
November 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1 pages
10h 27m
English
Rockport Publishers
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NEW YORK CITY
SUBWAY
FULTON STREET SUBWAY STATION
New York, New York, USA
Heins & LaFarge (est. 1886), Architects
New York, New York, USA
1904
New York City’s first subway system, the Inter-
borough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), opened
in 1904 and immediately provided the inhabit-
ants of the largest city in the world with a new
means of transportation like they had never
experienced before. The initial subway line, ac-
claimed for its high speeds of 40 miles per hour,
connected City Hall in Lower Manhattan with
the city’s northern borough of the Bronx.
The first IRT stations were public monu-
ments to the classical Beaux-Arts style of
the era and ...
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