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Chronicle of twenty specific events in the history of New York¿s mass transit systems between 1940 and 1968, including large numbers of rare photos. 1940 to 1968 was chosen because those years bracket two sea change events ¿ the June 1940 subway unification, and the March 1968 inception of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).  

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Chronicle of twenty specific events in the history of New York¿s mass transit systems between 1940 and 1968, including large numbers of rare photos. 1940 to 1968 was chosen because those years bracket two sea change events ¿ the June 1940 subway unification, and the March 1968 inception of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).  
Autorenporträt
ANDREW J. SPARBERG has spent forty years in the transportation field, starting at Tri-State Regional Planning Commission, and then for twenty-five years at the Long Island Railroad. Since retiring from the LIRR he has worked on transportation's academic side, most recently at St. John's University and the City University of New York. He served as an associate editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City, contributing numerous articles to that publication. He was technical editor of Long Island Rail Road, a 2007 history by well-known author Stan Fischler. For more than twenty years, Mr. Sparberg has conducted tours as a volunteer for the New York Transit Museum.