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Jennifer Toth's 1993 book The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City, [4] written while she was an intern at the Los Angeles Times, was promoted as a true account of travels in the tunnels and interviews with tunnel dwellers. The book helped canonize the image of the mole people as an ordered society living literally under ...
A famous example of "mole people" who live under the ground are the Morlocks, who appear in H.G. Wells's 1895 novel The Time Machine. Other socially isolated, often oppressed and sometimes forgotten subterranean societies, exist in science fiction. Examples include Demolition Man, Futurama (in the form of "Sewer Mutants"), C.H.U.D.
Water seepage is a problem in the underground spaces of NYC and pumping is necessary to divert it elsewhere. [1] [2] The predominant bedrock underneath NYC is Manhattan Schist. [3] Some subterranean spaces of New York city are inhabited by so-called Mole people. [4] They were the subject of a 2008 documentary called Voices in the Tunnels.
In African American history the phrase “Underground Railroad” is a metaphor that refers to a secret network of routes and safe houses that would help enslaved people escape to freedom. But in ...
Freedom Tunnel, a railroad tunnel in New York City frequently inhabited by homeless people; Mole people, homeless people living under large cities in abandoned subway, railroad, flood, and sewage tunnels; Tunnel People, a 2010 book on New York City tunnel inhabitants by anthropologist and journalist Teun Voeten
EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures continues to tap into its classic monsters vault. The studio has acquired a pitch for a revamp of 1956 horror film The Mole People pitched by Chris Winterbauer, who ...
Warning: This post contains spoilers from The Underground Railroad. Just as he has for both of Barry Jenkins‘ films, Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, composer Nicholas Britell provided ...
Dark Days is an American documentary film directed, produced, and photographed by the English documentarian Marc Singer that was completed and released in 2000. Shot during the mid-1990s, it follows a group of people who lived in the Freedom Tunnel section of the Amtrak system at the time.