On The A Train

The New York City of the 1940s is home to innovators and immigrants, Wall Street bankers and family farmers, jazz and Joe DiMaggio. In Ozone Park, Queens, seven-year-old Alan Balsam finds the key to exploring his exciting and ever-evolving city when he stepped aboard the A train. In his accessible and historically rich new memoir, On the A Train, Alan Balsam transports you to the New York of his childhood. The arrival of public transportation heralded a massive cultural shift for the city, and as Balsam describes his daily adventures on the train, we see the changing city through his eyes. Filled with fascinating history and delightful anecdotes, On the A Train charts the influence of transportation on urban environments, from early automobiles to high-speed subway systems. Balsam also offers a comprehensive history of New York, from the Dutch settlements of the early 1600s to the Roaring Twenties and the First World War. For the history buff, an exhaustive bibliography offers references for continued reading, covering everything from fashion to art deco to women's rights. And for the child in all of us, Balsam's tale offers an adventure in locomotion second to none.

• | Author: Alan Balsam
• | Publisher: Cityscapeworks
• | Publication Date: Dec 24, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 126 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0999275917
• | ISBN-13: 9780999275917