| Subway Centennial - Wired New York Forum (10149 words) |
 | The subway was the world's first with regular express service, and the digging for it was speeded along greatly with the first extensive use of cut-and-cover tunnel construction essentially digging a trench and putting a roof on it instead of deep excavation. |
| A rather different association between subways and crime was made that day by the chief of police who, during the festivities, told the chief contractor's wife: "This subway is going to absolutely preclude the possibility of riots in New York. |
| If New York had followed the subwayless path, instead of 8 million residents in 2000, it might have had fewer than 4 million, and much of the city would be forlorn and lifeless. |
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