Joralemon Street Tunnel
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The Joralemon Street Tunnel, originally the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel, is a pair of tubes carrying the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway under the East River between Bowling Green Pa
1913 postcard illustrating the tunnel and City Hall station
South Ferry ventilation shaft
This house at 58 Joralemon Street was purchased and converted into a ventilation shaft for the Joralemon Street Tunnel.
The beginning of the tunnel just south of the Bowling Green station
Clifford Milburn Holland
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Clifford Milburn Holland was an American civil engineer who oversaw the construction of a number of subway and automobile tunnels in New York City, and for whom the Holland Tunnel is named.
Joralemon Street Tunnel
…curving at either bank of the river. The primary engineer for the tunnel was William Barclay Parsons, who designed most of the early IRT system, while Clifford Milburn Holland served as the assistant engineer. The New York Tunnel Company was the primary contractor. When completed, it was known as the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel…
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