Under the Planks
Chief Engineer William Barclay Parsons bet New York could run trains beneath crowded avenues, but digging the trench risked tearing the city apart.
The four-year excavation created the model for modern American mass transit, transforming urban geography even as the human cost of blasting through bedrock was left uncounted.
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