New York City’s Lost Subways: A Ghost System Beneath the Streets
The New York City subway system has 842 miles of track, but WNYC reveals “there’s even more to it than riders see: dozens of tunnels and platforms that were either abandoned or were built but never used.” This ghost system beneath the streets “reveals how the city’s transit ambitions have been both realized and thwarted.”
New York City’s Lost Subways: A Ghost System Beneath the Streets
The New York City subway system has 842 miles of track, but WNYC reveals “there’s even more to it than riders see: dozens of tunnels and platforms that were either abandoned or were built but never used.” This ghost system beneath the streets “reveals how the city’s transit ambitions have been both realized and thwarted.”
New York City’s Lost Subways: A Ghost System Beneath the Street
The New York City subway system has 842 miles of track, but WNYC reveals “there’s even more to it than riders see: dozens of tunnels and platforms that were either abandoned or were built but never used.” This ghost system beneath the streets “reveals how the city’s transit ambitions have been both realized and thwarted.”
New York City’s Lost Subways: A Ghost System Beneath the Streets
The New York City subway system has 842 miles of track, but WNYC reveals “there’s even more to it than riders see: dozens of tunnels and platforms that were either abandoned or were built but never used.” This ghost system beneath the streets “reveals how the city’s transit ambitions have been both realized and thwarted.”
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A new article by Gareth Porter and Shah Noori begins:
The number of civilians killed in U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) raids last year was probably several times higher than the figure of 80 people cited in the U.N. report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan published last week, an IPS investigation has revealed.
Inside Gadhafi’s Secret Underground Arsenal | Danger Room
Mike Elkin at Wired.com’s Danger Room takes us into Gadhafi’s secret weapons lair. He writes:
“Below, the ramp opened into a large, room supported by cement columns. The air was dense and the only light came from small air ducts near the ceiling. The cases sat piled wall-to-wall, just one of many arms caches hidden away by Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. But now the weapons are in the hands of his enemies here, a rebellious city of nearly one million people who, relatively unarmed, recently drove out Gadhafi’s special forces and mercenaries. Today, the rebels are preparing for further battle — and maybe even an attack on Gadhafi’s stronghold in Tripoli. But this time, they’ve got the weapons that the eccentric tyrant used to oppress his people with for 41 years.
‘We’ve found everything from bullets to rockets,’ the man in the blue spelunking jumpsuit and headlamp said as he climbed out of a nearby hole that led into a small, concrete room. He led me to a manhole that descended around 50 feet to a tunnel not unlike a large sewer system. ‘There is a huge network of tunnels underneath us. A few friends went in two hours ago and they haven’t come out yet.’ Gadhafii’s men torched the compound before they escaped in Land Rovers and through the secret tunnels.”
