Front cover image for Conquering Gotham : a Gilded Age epic : the construction of Penn Station and its tunnels

Conquering Gotham : a Gilded Age epic : the construction of Penn Station and its tunnels

Jill Jonnes (Author)
Traces the epic story of the struggle to build Penn Station, describing how the nation's most powerful railroad tackled Tammany Hall corruption and the forces of nature to create a tunnel system linking Manhattan, New Jersey, and Long Island

Print Book, English, 2007
Viking, New York, 2007