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width="272" /></td> <td height="48" width="1"><spacer height="48" type="block" width="1"></spacer></td> </tr> <tr height="628"> <td align="left" colspan="3" content="" csheight="1801" height="1907" rowspan="5" valign="top" width="275" xpos="16"> <p class="toc_hed2"><br /> May 2003</p> <p><span class="toc_text1"><b>*The New BMT&nbsp;Coney Island Terminal.</b>. After 80 years of service, the huge Stillwell Avenue terminal in Coney Island, host to four rapid transit main lines, is being replaced. This article traces the terminal&#39;s history, and illustrates its startling new look <i>by Paul Matus </i></span></p> <p class="toc_hed2">January 2003</p> <p><span class="toc_text1"><b>The Interborough Strike of 1919</b>. The Brotherhood of Interborough Rapid Transit Employees, launched an amazing 100% percent effective strike against the entire IRT rapid transit system. The story in xontemporary news accounts, researched, compiled and written <i>by Gregory J. Christiano</i></span><span class="toc_text1"><i> <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0301/index.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></i></span></p> <p class="toc_hed2">January 2002</p> <p><span class="toc_text1"><b>Staten Island Rapid Transit</b>, The Essential History. The rural rapid transit line that was Commodore Vanderbilt&#39;s first railroad venture <i>by Irvin Matus and Paul Matus <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0201/index.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></i></span></p> <p class="toc_text2">Acknowledgement <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0201/sirt17.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a>, Book Notes and Links <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0201/sirt18.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_hed2">July 2001</p> <p class="toc_text1"><b>Fallen Transit</b>:&nbsp;New York&#39;s Second Avenue el was torn down amid political pressure during WWII, leaving a hole in East Side transit service ever since, <i>by Alexander N. Cohen </i><a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0107/index.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_hed2">April 2001</p> <p class="toc_text1"><b>History of the Long Island Rail Road</b> to 1925 Part II. The nation&#39;s largest commuter railroad is also its oldest Class I&nbsp;railroad, <i>by Felix Reifschneider </i><a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0104/index.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_hed2">Winter 2001</p> <p class="toc_text1"><b>History of the Long Island Rail Road </b>to 1925<b> </b>Part I, <i>by Felix Reifschneider <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0103/index.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></i></p> <p class="toc_hed2">Autumn 2000</p> <p class="toc_text1"><b>The Road to the Transit Museum:</b> the Lines, the equipment, the 1965 New York World&#39;s Fair and the genesis of the Transit Museum <i>by Irvin Matus and Paul Matus</i> <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0011/index.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_hed2">July 2000</p> <p class="toc_text1"><b>25 Years Ago in <i>The Third Rail</i></b>, Cover <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0007/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_text2"><b>State of the Art Car&nbsp;</b>Visits New York, <i>by IIrvin Leigh Matus</i> <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0007/soac1.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_text2"><b>The First National Light Rail Conference</b>, <i>by James Seamon</i> <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0007/lrt1.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_text2"><b>Politics and History of the Transit Fare</b> as the fare rises against the background of New York&#39;s Fiscal Crisis in 1975,<i> by Paul Matus</i> <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0007/fares1.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_text2"><b>The BMT&nbsp;Culver Shuttle Closes</b>, <i>by Paul Matus</i> <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0007/culver.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_text2"><b>Lght Rail Plans</b> in Dayton Ohio Stymied, <i>by Paul Matus</i> <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0007/dayton.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_hed2">May 2000</p> <p class="toc_text1"><b>Our Spring Number</b>, Special Spring Cover <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0005/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> and Poem <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0005/toc.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_text2"><b>When National City Lines Came to Philadelphia: </b>Three Critical Years for one of Americas&#39;s Largest Traction Systems, <i>by S.L. Hackbridge </i><a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0005/phil1.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_text2"><b>What Is It?</b>&nbsp;A Mystery Bus from the Archives, <i>by Paul Matus </i><a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0005/mystery.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_hed2">March 2000</p> <p class="toc_text1"><b>The Third Century</b>: Rebuilt Again, Brooklyn&#39;s Historic Franklin Avenue Shuttle Reopens, <i>by Douglas Diamond </i><a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0003/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_hed2">January 2000</p> <p class="toc_text1"><b>Back to the Future</b>. Since municipal ownership, New York has had one of the most conservative transit managements in the U.S., but it once had one of the most aggressive and advanced in Brooklyn&#39;s BMT, <i>by Paul Matus</i> <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0001/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_hed2">December 1999</p> <p class="toc_text1"><b>The Little Station in the Woods</b>. It began life as a real estate office deep in the woods of Flatbush. Now it is one of the New York&#39;s oldest original subway stations, <i>by Paul Matus </i><a href="http://thethirdrail.net/9912/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_hed2">September 1999</p> <p class="toc_text1"><b>Before it Was the &quot;W&quot;</b>. The West End Line began life as the first little steam road to reach Coney Island.&nbsp;This is a story of its early days, <i>by Morton Morris</i> <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/9909/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_hed2">May 1999</p> <p class="toc_text1"><b>American Ground Transport</b>. Remembering <i>U.S. vs. National City Lines</i>, highlighting the role of highway-based businesses in the rapid decline of the U.S. street railway industry. <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/9905/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_text1"></p> </td> <td align="left" colspan="2" content="" csheight="620" height="628" valign="top" width="272" xpos="320"> <p class="toc_hed2"><br /> Brooklyn Grade Crossing Commission</p> <p class="toc_text1">The Brooklyn Grade Crossing Elimination Commission was created by the New York State legislature on May 9, 1903 to accompish the goal of providing fully grade separated rights-of-way for the BRT&#39;s Brighton Beach Line and the Bay Ridge and Manhattan Beach lines of the LIRR.<br /> <i>by Bob Diamond </i><a href="gcbook/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_text2">Photo Gallery <a href="gcbook/raw/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> Maps <a href="gcbook/images/mindex.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_hed2">BRT&nbsp;Excursion Train to Rockaway</p> <p class="toc_text1">This was the &quot;mystery photo&quot; for August 2000. Includes some hints of sleuthing the location of old photographs. Bill Mangahas figured out the photo&#39;s secret first. <a href="0008/mystery.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_hed2">Miscellaneous</p> <p class="toc_text1"><b>The Sea Beach Line</b> has two, usually unused, express tracks--with no stations?&nbsp;Why? <a href="faq/nyc/seabeach.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_text1"><b>The New York Subway</b> is run by MTA&nbsp;New York City Transit, or is it? <a href="faq/nyc/agencynames.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_text1"><b>The Atlantic Avenue (Cobble Hill) Tunnel</b> in Brooklyn now sees only the ghosts of antique steam engines. <a href="faq/nyc/AtlanticTunnel.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_text1"></p> </td> <td height="1036" rowspan="3" width="1"><spacer height="1036" type="block" width="1"></spacer></td> <td height="628" width="1"><spacer height="628" type="block" width="1"></spacer></td> </tr> <tr height="42"> <td align="left" colspan="2" height="42" valign="top" width="272" xpos="320"><a href="http://www.urbanography.com/"><img border="0" height="35" src="images/contents_urb.gif" width="272" /></a></td> <td height="42" width="1"><spacer height="42" type="block" width="1"></spacer></td> </tr> <tr height="366"> <td colspan="2" content="" csheight="342" cslocked="" height="366" valign="top" width="272" xpos="320"> <p class="toc_text1">A turbulent year in New York, and national history, described in analysis and contemporary articles <i>by Gregory J. Chrisiano.</i></p> <p class="toc_text2"><b>Introduction</b> <a href="http://www.urbanography.com/1857/index.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a><br /> <b>Part One </b>The Police Riots<b> </b><a href="http://www.urbanography.com/1857/police2.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a><br /> <b>Part Two</b> The Gang Riots <a href="http://urbanography.com/1857/gangs1.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_hed2">Where &quot;the Gangs&quot; Lived</p> <p class="toc_text1">Historical articles describing New York&#39;s Five Points neighborhoodin the mid-19th century, real home of the gangs described in the movie <i>Gangs of New York</i>, compiled and written <i>by Gregory J. Christiano.</i> <a href="http://www.urbanography.com/5_points/index.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_hed2">Vitagraph Company in Brooklyn</p> <p class="toc_text1">Illustrated history of one of the pioneers of motion pictures <i>by Irvin Leigh Matus </i><a href="http://www.urbanography.com/urban/0006/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_hed2"></p> <p class="toc_hed2"></p> </td> <td height="366" width="1"><spacer height="366" type="block" width="1"></spacer></td> </tr> <tr height="51"> <td height="871" rowspan="2" width="1"><spacer height="871" type="block" width="1"></spacer></td> <td align="left" colspan="2" height="51" valign="top" width="272" xpos="321"><a href="http://www.bookreview.net/"><img border="0" height="42" src="images/contents_brnhed.gif" width="272" /></a></td> <td height="51" width="1"><spacer height="51" type="block" width="1"></spacer></td> </tr> <tr height="820"> <td align="left" colspan="2" content="" csheight="536" height="820" valign="top" width="272" xpos="321"> <p class="toc_text1"><br /> <span class="toc_hed3">The Malbone Street Wreck</span><br /> &nbsp;<i>by Brian J. Cudahy.</i> Reviewer: <i>Paul Matus</i></p> <p class="toc_text2">On November 1, 1918, a five car wood-bodied elevated train of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. smashed into the wall of a recently opened tunnel, killing about 100 people. <a href="book/reviews/malbone.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_text2">A Few Historical Errors in Cudahy&#39;s <i>The Malbone Street Wreck</i>, by <i>Alan D. Glick</i> <a href="book/reviews/malbone_err.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_text2">Capsule Review, by <i>C.K. Leverett</i> <a href="book/reviews/malbone_cap.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_text1"><span class="toc_hed3">722 Miles</span><br /> <i>by Clifton Hood</i>. Reviewer:&nbsp;<i>Paul Matus</i></p> <p class="toc_text2">A political history of the transit system in one of the nation&#39;s most political cities, with focus on the building of the first subway. <a href="http://rapidtransit.net/book/reviews/722.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_text1"><span class="toc_hed3">Tracks of the New York City Subway</span><br /> <i>by Peter Dougherty</i>. Reviewer: <i>Paul Matus.</i></p> <p class="toc_text2">Where does that track go?&nbsp;A&nbsp;detailed and fascinating study of the trackage of the vast New York City subway system. <a href="book/reviews/tracksny.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a></p> <p class="toc_text1"><span class="toc_hed3">The Underground Guide<br /> to New York City Subways</span><br /> <i>by David Frattini</i>. 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