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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]
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.
The New York City Department of Transportation owns and operates almost 800. [1] The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New York State Department of Transportation and Amtrak have many others. Many of the city's major bridges and tunnels have broken or set records.
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 Subway: A Trip Through Time on New York's Rapid Transit. H & M Productions II Inc. ISBN 1-882608-19-4. Fischler, Stan (2004). The Subway and the City: Celebrating a Century. with John Henderson. Frank Merriwell Incorporated. ISBN 0-8373-9251-9. Dougherty, Peter (2007). Tracks of the New York City Subway v4.2
The PRR created subsidiaries to manage the project. The Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York Railroad and the Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island Rail Road, were the New Jersey and New York parts, respectively. The PNJ&NY was incorporated February 13, 1902, and the PNY&LI was incorporated April 21, 1902.
The myriad tunnels under Gaza are best known as passageways used to smuggle goods from ... Uriel Sinai/The New York Times/Redux. ... Nearly 2 million people live in the 88 square miles that make ...
The tunnel once carried the New York and Harlem Railroad and later, that company's streetcar line. It was then called the Murray Hill Tunnel. The tunnel was originally built as an open rock cut, completed in 1834, [2] after which the NY&H Railroad was opened as far as Yorkville, to 85th Street. The first trains to use the cut were horse-drawn.