Mole people
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In the United States, the term mole people is sometimes used to describe homeless people living under large cities in abandoned subway, railroad, flood, sewage tunnels, and heating shafts.
Demolished shanty housing once used by the homeless in Manhattan's Freedom Tunnel
Entry into the Las Vegas flood control tunnels
Freedom Tunnel
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The Freedom Tunnel is a railroad tunnel carrying the West Side Line under Riverside Park in Manhattan, New York City. Used by Amtrak trains to and from Pennsylvania Station, it got its name because th
Mole people
…British filmmaker Marc Singer, follows a group of people living in an abandoned section of a regional rail tunnel in New York City, in the area called Freedom Tunnel. Anthropologist Teun Voeten's 1996 book Tunnel People is also about the inhabitants of the Freedom Tunnel, where Voeten lived for five months. Sociologist…
Most graffiti is centered under the light
Exits at many points let in light and noise from the nearby playgrounds and parks.
Graffiti in the tunnel