Construction, Comics, and Crips
Highway Under the Hudson, Mutants and Mystics, and Power Concedes Nothing
In The Six-Point Inspection, Zócalo takes a quick look at new books that are changing the way we see our world.
Highway Under the Hudson: A History of the Holland Tunnel by Robert W. Jackson
The nutshell: Jackson’s history of the first highway tunnel between northern N.J. and Manhattan-when it was built in 1927, it was the largest vehicular tunnel in the world-chronicles feats of engineering, political maneuvering, and economic negotiation.
Literary lovechild of: Kevin Starr’s Golden Gate …
