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The Freedom Tunnel is a railroad tunnel carrying the West Side Line under Riverside Park in Manhattan, New York City. Used by Amtrak trains to and from Pennsylvania Station , it got its name because the graffiti artist Chris "Freedom" Pape used the tunnel walls to create some of his most notable artwork.
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.
Chris Pape, known by his tag Freedom, is an American painter and graffiti artist. He started tagging subway tunnels and subway cars in 1974 as "Gen II" before adopting the tag "Freedom". [ 1 ] Pape is best known for his numerous paintings in the eponymous Freedom Tunnel , an Amtrak tunnel running underneath Manhattan's Riverside Park .
Demolished shanty housing once used by the homeless in Manhattan's Freedom Tunnel. In the United States, the term mole people (also called tunnel people or tunnel dwellers) is sometimes used to describe homeless people living under large cities in abandoned subway, railroad, flood, sewage tunnels, and heating shafts.
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
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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.
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