#307 The Holland Tunnel: The Wonder of the Jazz Age
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
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New York City Tunnels
This was all done on blue prints with pencils, geometry amy. If there was a major problem with acquiring a property to condemn it for some reason, it's not like you could move the entrance a block younow. So we did lose some precious things due to this, and including on the manhattan side, the architecture. Of note that was demolished was a vestige of the very old neighbourhood called saint john's park which we talked about in the tribeca show. That was the first sort of upscale neighborhood a developed by trinity church. Why was that demolished? Well, much of it had been demolished by that freight terminal that had sat,. But there were still some early nineteenth
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