CITYWIDE — THE CITY’S SUBWAY SYSTEM HOLDS A SECRET DATING BACK WELL BEFORE ITS OFFICIAL OPENING ON OCT. 27, 1904, and a book released this fall unlocks the story.

“New York’s Secret Subway: the Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit,” uncovers the story of this visionary inventor who clandestinely built the city’s very first underground train in 1869. He defied and overcame political and governmental roadblocks to construct a pneumatic subway.

This story is the topic of a free virtual forum offered by the New York Transit Museum on Tuesday, Dec. 16 at 2 p.m. The book is available for sale on the museum store website and via online retailers like Amazon.

Author Matthew Algeo is an award-winning journalist who has reported from four continents, as well as

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