A number-one bestselling author and award-winning journalist, McNichol’s published books, articles and thought-leadership papers are deeply researched works of mega project construction in the United States. His keynotes are inspirations for a nation.

Photo: Patrick J. Cashin | MTA

Past Event

Second Avenue Subway Book Front Cover

SECOND AVENUE SUBWAY:

BUILDING NEW YORK CITY’S MOST FAMOUS THING NEVER BUILT

Dan McNichol

Author

Bill Goodrich

Former Executive Vice President New York State MTA

Patrick J. Cashin

MTA Photographer

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2024

6:00 – 8:30 PM

New York Transit Museum

99 Schermerhorn Street

Brooklyn, NY 11201

Second Avenue Subway: Building New York City’s Most Famous Thing Never Built

  • Hard Cover 

  • Non-Fiction

  • Trim Size: 10x10" 

  • Page Count: 350 pages

  • Image Count: 256 (mostly unpublished)

  • Publisher: Big Dig Productions, Inc.

“Three subway stops have never been more important to a nation,” opens Dan McNichol’s new book, Second Avenue Subway: Building The Most Famous Thing Never Built In New York City.

Books by Dan McNichol

Second Avenue Subway

Building the Most Famous Thing Never Built in New York City

The Largest Urban Construction Project in the History of the Modern World

The Big Dig

The Roads That Built America

The Incredible Story of the U.S. Interstate System

A Legacy of Leadership

Governors And American History

The Big Dig

Mapping America’s Great Public Project

The Big Dig at Night

The Big Dig

Trivia Quiz Book

Paving the Way

Asphalt in America

Dan McNichol

Dan McNichol is a number one best-selling author. For decades, his books have celebrated the nation’s greatest  infrastructure projects. He is an award-winning journalist and public speaker who has written for the New York Times, contributing to a front-page story urging the president of the United States to “build something inspiring.” As a national correspondent for ENR (Engineering News-Record magazine), McNichol drove across America in his rusty antique car, a 1949 Hudson, which became a metaphor for the nation’s broken infrastructure. He did this while reporting on the need to invest in civic projects. A regular contributor to National Public Radio programs, McNichol appears in numerous major documentaries about infrastructure. He served the president of the United States as a White House appointee focused on transportation infrastructure policy. His highly regarded experience and insight have led to communication gigs on the nation’s largest infrastructure projects, including as a chief spokesman for Boston’s Big Dig, California’s High Speed Rail, and reconstruction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.