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The Holland Tunnel is a vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River that connects Hudson Square and Lower Manhattan in New York City in the east to Jersey City, New Jersey in the west. The tunnel is operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and carries Interstate 78.
The Canal Street station (formerly Canal Street–Holland Tunnel) is an express station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.Located at the intersection of Canal Street, Vestry Street, and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) in Lower Manhattan, it is served by the A and E trains at all times, and the C train at all times except late nights.
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Aerial shot from 1973 of the Holland Tunnel Rotary serving eastbound tube of tunnel; a fifth exit was added in 2004. The section of I-78 within New York is 0.5 miles (0.80 km) long according to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), [1] although the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) considers I-78 to be 0.9 miles (1.4 km) long. [2]
Interstate 78 (I-78) is an east–west Interstate Highway in the Northeastern United States that runs 144 miles (232 km) from I-81 northeast of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, through Allentown to western and North Jersey, terminating at the Holland Tunnel entrance to Lower Manhattan in New York City.
Graffiti in tunnel. The underground world of New York City has been the subject of TV series, films, paintings and books. In the popular fictional TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the sewer system was the turtles' home and their means of navigating swiftly underneath the sprawling city above.
Ole Singstad was born at Singstad farm in Lensvik (now Orkland municipality) in Trøndelag county, Norway.He was the seventh of nine children born to Knut Jacobsen Singstad (17 May 1831 – 24 November 1906) and Anne Mikkelsdatter Auset Singstad (10 July 1843 – 30 April 1947).
Holland was the first chief engineer on the Hudson River Vehicular Tunnel project, earning an annual salary of $10,000. [8] Holland conducted experiments in a small tunnel in a coal mine in Bruceton, Pennsylvania, in order to determine how to safely and sufficiently vent vehicles' carbon monoxide out of the tunnel and keep the passengers safe. [6]