American Experience · SEASON 9

New York Underground

Episode 7 · 1997-02-17

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Episode overview

It began with the blizzard of 1888 -- mountains of snow twenty feet high, horse cars and omnibuses abandoned, the city paralyzed. There was no doubt New York needed a public transportation system. It would be an American epic -- the largest public works project in history, overshadowed only by the Panama Canal.

55 minutes

Season 9 episodes