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The Cobble Hill Tunnel (also known as the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel) is an abandoned Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City, running through the neighborhoods of Downtown Brooklyn and Cobble Hill. When open, it ran for about 2,517 feet (767 m) between Columbia Street and Boerum Place. [2]
The BHRA's origin began with the rediscovery of the Cobble Hill Tunnel by the late Bob Diamond in 1980. BHRA was formed in 1982 to restore the historic tunnel. The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel (constructed in 1844) is the world's oldest subway tunnel. BHRA successfully filed and received designation for the tunnel on the National Register of Historic ...
Cobble Hill Park with snow on the ground. Cobble Hill Park, on Clinton Street between Verandah Place and Congress Street, was created in 1965. The site had been the location of two mansions (the Weber and Whitten Mansions) and the Second Unitarian Church, which was abandoned by the 1940s, when the site was purchased by the Bohack Corporation, a ...
The Atlantic Avenue line became the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railway in 1866 and the Atlantic Avenue Railroad in 1872. [9] The Cobble Hill Tunnel remained empty and unused (despite several urban legends about illegal use) until its rediscovery in 1981.
The Holland Tunnel is the oldest of the vehicular tunnels, opening to great fanfare in 1927 as the first mechanically ventilated underwater tunnel. The Queens Midtown Tunnel was opened in 1940 to relieve the congestion on the city's bridges. Each of its tubes were designed 1.5 feet (0.46 m) wider than the Holland Tunnel in order to accommodate ...
Sleyenda at Leyenda (Cobble Hill, Brooklyn) One of the best holiday-themed bars in Brooklyn is Leyenda's annual celebration, Sleyenda. On top of some of their classic Christmas cocktails like ...
Atlantic Avenue Tunnel: September 7, 1989 ... Cobble Hill: 14: Austin, Nichols and Company Warehouse ... Prospect Park (Brooklyn) 25: Boerum Hill Historic District:
Dozens of Brooklynites raged Wednesday over a city-run concrete recycling facility that has been blanketing Cobble Hill in thick layers of dust for a year — spouting concerns that the fumes are ...