Dave Grohl – I Am A River
There are not a lot of songs out there about underground urban rivers! Fortunately, Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters has now added to the ...[READ MORE]... Continue reading →
View ArticleArthur Kill Bridge 2005
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View ArticleRoosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital & Public Health History
Exploring NYC’s history on Roosevelt Island – and the history of urban public health efforts. As far as I’ve been able to tell in ...[READ MORE]... Continue reading →
View ArticleNotes – Sewers & Mortality rates
“Effects of Sewerage” – Table showing mortality before and after construction of sewers for six towns in England (page 29): http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066367503?urlappend=%3Bseq=39 See page...
View ArticleModern Ruin: A World’s Fair Pavilion [Film by Matthew Silva]
https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/9994545 Queens Theatre Presents Modern Ruin: A World’s Fair Pavilion – WORLD PREMIERE Friday, May 22, 2015 at 8:00PM at ...[READ MORE]... Continue reading →
View ArticleChinatown to Chambers Street notes – subway tunnels etc
Notes on some of the details and histories of subway tunnels and related underground features around City Hall park and Chinatown in lower Manhattan – ...[READ MORE]... Continue reading →
View ArticleSwamp Angels Sewers notes
1879 Bromley map overlay from Rumsey collection – see east and west gotham courts; Riis says outlet into Cherry St sewer, and these alleys were ...[READ MORE]... Continue reading →
View ArticleThe underground world of urban exploration
When I say the world of tunnel explorers is an underground culture, is it metaphor or reality? Let’s talk about it at the next international ...[READ MORE]... Continue reading →
View ArticleTunnel News Roundup: Prison Escapes, Nazi Gold
August 2015: Nazi Gold Train discovered in tunnel http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/27/europe/poland-nazi-train-mystery/index.html July 2015: “El Chapo” escapes prison through impressive tunnel:...
View ArticleSeattle: Searching for the Underground
A story of Seattle’s underground, around the old downtown of Pioneer Square. Written in 2000. Seattle’s history is a story of conflagratory destruction and socioeconomic rebirth; a story of a city...
View ArticleFallout 4 Video
See the video: http://www.undercity.org/?p=2549 Filmed with Barcroft Media for Bethesda Fallout 4 in REAL LIFE | Dan Bull FALLOUT 4 real life Fallout 4’s Flaming Sword “The Shishkebab” Recreated...
View ArticleFallout 4 Video media roundup
http://www.barcroft.tv/real-life-fallout-four-urban-historian-explores-locations-boston-massachusetts http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/these-are-the-real-life-ruins-that-inspired-fallout-4...
View ArticleSteve Duncan (from Lost Lectures NYC 2015)
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View ArticleSt Paul, MN –‘Pierre “Pig’s Eye” Parrant’ notes
http://www.minnesotafunfacts.com/st-paul-history/pierre-pigs-eye-parrant-one-of-the-first-st-paul-settlers/ Related Images: [See image gallery at www.undercity.org]
View ArticleLiverpool’s Williamson Tunnels
http://www.williamsontunnels.co.uk/view.php?page=photos Related Images: [See image gallery at www.undercity.org]
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