Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Tunnel vision: how an obsessed explorer found and lost the world's oldest subway


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.


— Walt Whitman, writing about the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel in 1861




Bob Diamond had been guiding tours in an abandoned subway tunnel under Atlantic Avenue for almost 30 years when he was blindsided by a phone call from a New York Daily News reporter asking him how it felt to get kicked out.


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