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The tunnel was the world's first mechanically ventilated tunnel. Subterranean New York City relates to the area beneath the surface level of New York City; the natural features, man-made structures, spaces, objects, and cultural creation and experience. Like other subterranea, the underground world of New York City has been the basis of TV ...
Contents. New York City Subway map. 2013 edition of the official Hertz-style subway map; note that this may not reflect temporary changes in service. Many transit maps for the New York City Subway have been designed since the subway's inception in 1904. Because the subway was originally built by three separate companies, an official map for all ...
Life Underground. Life Underground (2001) is a permanent public artwork created by American sculptor Tom Otterness for the New York City Subway 's 14th Street/Eighth Avenue station, which serves the A, C, E , and L trains. It was commissioned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority 's Arts for Transit program for US$200,000, one percent of ...
Tunnel People (Dutch title: Tunnelmensen) is an anthropological-journalistic account describing an underground homeless community in New York City.It is written by war photographer and anthropologist Teun Voeten and was initially published in his native Dutch in 1996, and a revised English version was published by the Oakland-based independent publishing house PM Press in 2010.
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 ...
The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.Built primarily between 1966 and 1975, it was dedicated on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed during the September 11 attacks in 2001.
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.It is owned by the government of New York City and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, [14] an affiliate agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). [15]
In April 1986, the New York City Transit Authority began to study the possibility of eliminating sections of 11 subway lines because of low ridership. The segments are primarily located in low-income neighborhoods of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, with a total of 79 stations, and 45 miles of track, for a total of 6.5 percent of the system.