BOOK LAUNCH
BOOK LAUNCH
The Second Avenue Subway: Building New York City’s Most Famous Thing Never Built was launched on October 23, 2024 at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn. During the celebration, Dan McNichol presented the dynamic story of the Second Avenue subway development. He was joined by his co-author, former MTA Capital Executive Vice President, Bill Goodrich, and his photography editor, former MTA photographer, Patrick Cashin.
Completion of the Second Avenue subway’s extension in 2017 achieved an almost century-long effort to expand rapid transit service to Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Dan McNichol’s new book Second Avenue Subway: Building New York City’s Most Famous Thing Never Built, explores the project’s complexity and the monumental hurdles it faced.
Second Avenue Subway: Building New York City’s Most Famous Thing Never Built
Art direction, layout, and graphic design for a 350-page book that details the tortuous history of New York City’s most debated, promised, and—until recently—never delivered subway line.
Contributors
Authors
Dan McNichol is a number one best-selling author and an award-winning journalist, whose published books, articles and thought-leadership papers are about mega infrastructure projects and the infrastructural needs of the United States.
Bill Goodrich has worked for over forty years as a transportation infrastructure program executive, professional structural engineer, and construction manager, and he was New York City’s MTA’s senior executive in charge of building Phase 1 of the Second Avenue Subway.
Photography
Patrick Cashin, an award-winning photographer, spent over twenty years with New York City’s MTA and his photographs have appeared in the New York Times, the Sunday Times, the New York Daily News, the London Times and Engineering News Record, to name just a few.
