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Of all the great cities on the globe, few personify their country like NEW YORK. As America's greatest city and most widely known immigration gateway in to the country, NYC presents the beauty, variety, and sheer strength of america, a worldwide financial centre that has enticed people running after the "American Aspiration" for years and years. One of many needs of a growing civilization is an efficient transport system, and by enough time the burgeoning NEW YORK had come to the latter one half of the 19th hundred years, the waterways and thin streets were no more sufficient to get people from one part of the town to another. Something new was needed, and in a place where real estate had been at reduced, building above floor was not an economically reliable option. So, the leaders of the town commissioned companies to explore the world under the occupied streets, and also to create a rail system that would allow people to move quickly below the feet of these walking above. First one company and then another increased to the task, and the first decade of the 20th hundred years found the town with among the finest subway systems in the nation. As the town grew, so have the companies, and they continuing to dig like human being gophers into more expansive areas. Perhaps not surprisingly, hardly anything went smoothly, and for each mile of track put down, there was at least another mile of red tape that needed to be cut through.
