The Secret Tunnels Beneath New York - IT'S HISTORY

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  @BradslifeonEarth · 4 years ago

  Bob Diamond passed away recently. I followed his efforts to research the tunnel and bring back trolleys to Brooklyn. RIP

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  @neilfraser1235 · 4 years ago

  I went on the Atlanic Tunnel tour back in 2008. I still remember climbing down that ladder in the middle of Atlantic Ave with cars wizzing past me. Bob Diamond led the tour and actually got actors to come down and re-enact events related to the history of the tunnel. I talked to him about the mythical locomotive rumored to be hidden behind the wall, and I almost offered him my number and my free time to help out if he ever needed volunteers to come with shovels to dig it out . I feel lucky to have met him.

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  @cynthiaontiveros9401 · 2 years ago

  Keep in mind this was released two years ago.

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  @2007bowman · 4 years ago

  As kids, me and my brothers discovered a concealed crevice that opened into a cavernous abandoned train tunnel in Brooklyn. Although it' was 60 years ago, I still remember the fascination, and the excitement - believing we were the only ones who knew of it's secret existence. - Blessings

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  @austinevplab7167 · 4 years ago

  I stumbled upon a tunnel, some 450’ long between two buildings out in the desert of El Paso, Tx.  One of the buildings, long abandoned, was part of a tuberculosis sanatorium.

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  @kelvinl5204 · 4 years ago

  @<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0TAMXMeeqE&amp;t=1020">17:00</a> Bush &quot;I know how we&apos;ll escape! We&apos;ll take a train, they never see it coming!&quot;

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  @philpots48 · 3 years ago

  When I was a boy, my friend lived in a pre-revolutionary house in Jericho, Long Island, NY and in the cellar was a tunnel used for escaping if needed. My friend and I tried to open the gate to explore, but his father would not unlock it, he said it was dangerous.

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  @ernestbywater411 · 4 years ago

  While the incident you mention in 1845 may be the first usage of a &apos;cut and cover&apos; construction for a railway tunnel, the building of tunnels with the &apos;cut and cover&apos; method goes way back with known example from the early Roman period and some that could be even older.

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  @FuzzyGatorDog · 4 years ago

  In today&apos;s POV, you got to ask... &nbsp;&quot;When the government comes along and seals off a tunnel from the public, what are they using it for?

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  @Nicky_the_Blade · 4 years ago (edited)

  Ahh, McCarren Park and the old pool....lot of good memories (not water-related)...I remember seeing MIA play there when she was new, I wanna say 2007.

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  @victorm.photovic9983 · 4 years ago

  There are underground garages where tractor trailers go in to unload underneath Rockefeller Center. They are huge.

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  @philipciaffa6643 · 4 years ago

  It has been documented elsewhere, that the trackage under Park Avenue and the Waldorf Astoria Hotel was used for FDRs entourage and security detail in private rail cars to drive his limousine onto a freight elevator, going directly to the Presidential Suite at the hotel, when he visited NY from Washington, DC during his Presidency. &nbsp;Obviously, the railcars used for this purpose would not have been left at Grand Central Terminal.

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