Season 9 · Episode 7

New York Underground

• Release date
• February 17, 1997
• Runtime
• 55 min

It began with the blizzard of 1888 -- mountains of snow twenty feet high, horse cars and omnibuses abandoned, the city paralyzed. There was no doubt New York needed a public transportation system. It would be an American epic -- the largest public works project in history, overshadowed only by the Panama Canal.