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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 ...
New York City Subway tunnels: Fort George Tunnel, IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (1 train), 2 miles of rock tunnel from 157th Street to Dyckman Street, the second-longest two-track tunnel in the country (after the Hoosac Tunnel) when completed in 1906. 14th Street Tunnel, BMT Canarsie Line (L train) under East River between Manhattan and ...
The Chicago Tunnel Company was the builder and operator of a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge railway freight tunnel network under downtown Chicago, Illinois.This was regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission as an interurban even though it operated entirely under central Chicago, did not carry passengers, and was entirely underground. [1]
Traveling through the Holland Tunnel, from Manhattan to Jersey City, New Jersey: Uptown Hudson Tubes: 1908: 1,700 m (5,500 ft) Hoboken-Morton Tunnels Port Authority Trans-Hudson: North River Tunnels: 1910: 1,900 m (6,100 ft) part of New York Tunnel Extension Amtrak and New Jersey Transit (Northeast Corridor) Lincoln Tunnel: north tube: 1945 ...
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims — New York City: Brooklyn [17] [52] Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center — Niagara Falls [55] Chappaqua Friends Meeting House - Chappaqua, New York [59] Buckout-Jones Building — Oswego [24] Edwin W. and Charlotte Clarke House — Oswego [17] [24] Hamilton and Rhoda Littlefield House — Oswego ...
After living in the city where "Home Alone 2: Lost In New York" was shot, it quickly became my favorite film from the series. McCallister escapes the bad guys in a horse-drawn carriage in "Home ...
The Staten Island Tunnel is an abandoned, incomplete railway and subway tunnel in Staten Island, New York City. It was intended to connect railways on Staten Island (precursors to the modern-day Staten Island Railway) to the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, in Brooklyn, via a new crossing under the Narrows. Planned to extend ...
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]