The Last Three Miles: Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway

An investigative history of Depression Era power brokers and labor wars in the construction of the Pulaski Skyway across the New Jersey Meadowlands.

In the 1930s, as America's love affair with the automobile began, cars and trucks leaving the nation's largest city were dumped out of the Holland Tunnel onto local roads winding through New Jersey swampland. The Pulaski Skyway, America's first "superhighway," would change all that by connecting the hub of New York City to the rest of the cou...