Matthew Algeo

The Best Book I Read All Year Hold your nose and hope for thes best. It's not "Life After Cars," but something totally different.

The Best Book I Read All Year
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Happy New Year to all! I hope it's a joyful, positive year, but, to be honest, I'd be happy even if it was just meh.

Best books I read in 2025, in no order:

-Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner
-Drome, @jesselonergan.bsky.social
-A Star Called The Sun, @simonroy.bsky.social
-Pedestrianism, @malgeo.bsky.social
-Flashes of Brilliance, Anika Burgess
-Enough Is Enuf, Gabe Henry
-How To Love, Alex Norris

The Best Book I Read All Year Hold your nose and hope for thes best. It's not "Life After Cars," but something totally different.

Huge thanks @samsklar.bsky.social for his kind words about my book New York's Secret Subway. open.substack.com/pub/sklar/p/...

sketchbook page with Boss Tweed: amiable and terrifying, imposing and corrupt

Just finished New York's Secret Subway by @malgeo.bsky.social. Check out the doodles endless tangents it inspired: potuspages.com/blog/subway

Check out our awesome new book by @malgeo.bsky.social front and center at Barnes and Noble in Brooklyn @islandpress.bsky.social

"A classic story of good versus evil."

Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @malgeo.bsky.social & @islandpress.bsky.social!

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Q&A with Matthew Algeo about his new book, NEW YORK'S SECRET SUBWAY.
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‘New York’s Secret Subway’ Review: Tunnel Visions An inventor in 19th-century New York had been dreaming about a subterranean railway for decades. He’d have to break a few rules to build it.

Read about @malgeo.bsky.social Matthew Algeo's "delightful" new book, "New York's Secret Subway" in the WSJ www.wsj.com/arts-culture... @islandpress.bsky.social

New York’s Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit by Matthew Algeo Journalist Algeo follows up When Harry Met Pablo with an engrossing chronicle of the life of Alfred Ely Beach (1826–1896), co-ow...

Great first review for @malgeo.bsky.social NY'S SECRET SUBWAY "engrossing...an immersive view of 1860s New York as a hotbed of innovation and corruption." Fantastic and highly recommended. Out Sept. Pre-order now from @islandpress.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/9781642833652

Looking forward to moving back to the United States next month. I love America, everything I hate is there.

Happy Grover Cleveland's Birthday to all who celebrate!

With congestion pricing now in effect in lower Manhattan, it's worth remembering another proposal to relieve congestion in New York City: Alfred Beach's pneumatic-tube subway.

#newyork #transportation #subways #gildedage #ushistory #newyorkers #NYCHistory #TransitHistory #VintageTech

Never too early to teach the children how to be like D.B. Cooper.

It’s important we find the killer of the UHC CEO, but maybe the police should respond to all murders this aggressively…

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

Working on some new mottos for the USA…

If you hate the taste of your poisonous shower curtain, have I got news for you!

Dr. Phil expression no. 248B

Free rhyme to any good home: Slurpees® and herpes.
#slurpees #herpes

This is my cat. That’s all.

Hi there, going to give Bluesky a go, follow me and I will follow back, I'm a #writer who loves #history ... I've written seven books, some of which have actually made money. Currently living in Gaborone, #Botswana ...