The Power Broker: Chapter 31

Chapter 31: Monopoly

Ole Singstad of the New York City Tunnel Authority and chief engineer of the Brookyln-Batter Project
(photo courtesy: http://hemneslekt.net/histories/img/singstad_2.jpg)

Building the Queens-Midtown Tunnel in 1939, designed by Ole Singstad
(photo courtesy: http://www.cloutonline.com/2010/01/queens-midtown-tunnel-1939/)

Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel as it was partly built in 1944
(photo courtesy: http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/brooklyn-battery-tunnel/)

In 1946, Robert Moses' Triborough Authority swallows the New York Tunnel Authority