The world's oldest subway tunnel
June 10, 2014 4:35 PM Subscribe
The Fight to Find John Wilkes Booth’s Diary in a Forgotten Subway Tunnel
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The Verge: Tunnel vision: how an obsessed explorer found and lost the world's oldest subway. New York City has sealed up a 169-year-old landmark, but the man who discovered it wants back inside.
NYTimes from 2009: The Tunnel Rats of Atlantic Avenue
Vimeo: History Channel, "Cities of the Underworld: Atlantic Avenue Tunnel"
The Brooklyn Historic Railway Association. They also have a tumblr
CityNoise: Oldest Subway Tunnel in the World
Related Links
The Verge: Tunnel vision: how an obsessed explorer found and lost the world's oldest subway. New York City has sealed up a 169-year-old landmark, but the man who discovered it wants back inside.
NYTimes from 2009: The Tunnel Rats of Atlantic Avenue
"There are so many things you can’t do in the big, bad city, and you’d think that one of them would be climbing down a manhole when you’re not an employee of the Department of Transportation or the Metropolitan Transportation Authority or Con Edison. But you would be wrong.NYCSubway.org: Early Rapid Transit in New York
Thanks to Bob Diamond, the man who rediscovered a 19th-century Atlantic Avenue train tunnel in Downtown Brooklyn, you can scurry down a certain manhole without being hauled away by your ankles by the authorities."
Vimeo: History Channel, "Cities of the Underworld: Atlantic Avenue Tunnel"
The Brooklyn Historic Railway Association. They also have a tumblr
CityNoise: Oldest Subway Tunnel in the World
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