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Canada and the United States

Jameson W. Doig. Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority. (The Columbia History of Urban Life.) New York: Columbia University Press. 2001. Pp. xix, 582. $49.95.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (called the Port of New York Authority from its founding in 1921 until 1972) is the first and still one of the most powerful public authorities created in the United States, and the inspiration for seven thousand or more such authorities (such as the Tennessee Valley Authority) created in the United States in the twentieth century. Begun as a Progressive effort to promote cooperation between New Jersey and New York in the interests of maintaining the dominance of the port of New York, the Port of New York Authority became the dominant builder of the modern New York region. It built and/or operated, among others, the George Washington Bridge, the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels, the New York and Newark Airports, the first containerports at Port Newark and Elizabeth, the Port Authority Bus Terminal, the PATH train, and the World Trade Center, which it owned until just a few months before September 11, 2001. Its national influence goes well beyond these physical creations: it fought to protect the tax exemption of municipal bonds in the 1930s, successfully battled the monopoly power of the airline industry in the 1940s to achieve a fairer and more modern air transportation system, and persists as an example of the possibilities of regional government. . . .

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