New York’s Atlantic Avenue Tunnel


	New York’s Atlantic Avenue Tunnel

infidel70

4-2-2009 3:29 AM

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infidel70 says:

Walt Whitman wrote of the tunnel:

“The old tunnel, that used to lie there under ground, a passage of Acheron-like solemnity and darkness, now all closed and filled up, and soon to be utterly forgotten, with all its reminiscences; however, there will, for a few years yet be many dear ones, to not a few Brooklynites, New Yorkers, and promiscuous crowds besides. For it was here you started to go down the island, in summer.

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4-2-2009 4:02 AM

balthazarus

Highly recommended this video:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/miru_kim_s_underground_art.html

on: Talks Miru Kim: Making art of New York's urban ruins

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