Reddit reviews 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York
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722 Miles - is about the Subway system
Fat of the Land: Garbage in New York
The New York City Museum of Complaint - 300 years of actual complaint letters from the Municipal archive
The Power Broker - How Robert Moses shaped the city. Edit: of the ones I've listed, this one is required reading.
Thank you! Gotham is the kind of book that you can read over many times; it's a stellar addition to any library.
The most succinct look at infrastructure in the city that I have read (although I am sure there are others) is Kate Ascher's excellent The Works: Anatomy of a City. Reading that, I learned about all sorts of things I had never even thought about!
I am fascinated by the history of transportation in the city, and particularly by railroads. The portrait of William J. Wilgus that I mentioned in the above comment is one of the best books that I have read in recent memory, and I learned an incredible amount about the process of building tremendous projects like Grand Central, Penn Station and the High Line. Grand Central Terminal is my favorite place in the city, and it was an absolute pleasure to read about how it was planned and constructed (while trains continued to run!). 2013 is the Hundredth Anniversary of the Terminal, and as such the Transit Museum commissioned an interesting history of its predecessors and construction. I also am drawn to the history of the subways, and I have learned much about the system reading material on nycsubway.org and Joseph Brennan's Abandoned Stations page. In addition to the aforementioned Uptown, Downtown, I am also a big fan of Clifton Hood's 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York.
Here's a couple of good ones:
http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Subways-Illustrated-History/dp/0801879221
http://www.amazon.com/Subways-Tracks-That-Built-York/dp/1400052270/ref=pd_sim_14_7?ie=UTF8&dpID=51903R17WNL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=165R1XP41KKZVCB2WR99
http://www.amazon.com/722-Miles-Building-Subways-Transformed/dp/0801880548/ref=pd_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=41F2TGQJGGL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR107%2C160_&refRID=1WV4227NF64ANR93J2T1
http://www.amazon.com/Under-Sidewalks-New-York-Greatest/dp/0823216187
Just finished this and enjoyed it https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801880548/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
There's a book on the progression of the NYC Subway system: 722 Miles. It's less about the actual construction and more about the politics behind it all, but a good read nonetheless.