{"id":89,"date":"2014-02-06T16:10:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T16:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2014-02-06T16:10:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T16:10:13","slug":"the-oldest-subway-tunnel-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"The Oldest Subway Tunnel in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screenshot-2014-02-06-10.52.29.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screenshot-2014-02-06-10.52.29-300x170.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2014-02-06 10.52.29\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screenshot-2014-02-06-10.52.29-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screenshot-2014-02-06-10.52.29.png 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One day a few years ago I was walking along Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn and there was a makeshift cordon of orange safety cones in the middle of the street, an open manhole cover inside the cordon, and a ladder sticking out of the manhole. There was also, at this busy intersection outside of Trader Joe&#8217;s, a line of mostly young people waiting to be escorted through traffic to the ladder, upon which they would descend into the subterranean&#8230; what?<\/p>\n<p>Some of the people waiting told us there was an old forgotten subway tunnel at the bottom of the ladder and they were signed up for a tour of it. $15 they told us the tour cost, and while that seemed like a lot of money to see a hole, that hole looked awfully intriguing.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t hear much about the forgotten subway after that, I guess because\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/2\/5\/5280920\/tunnel-vision-bob-diamond-fights-for-the-atlantic-avenue-subway\" target=\"_blank\">as this story in The Verge says<\/a>\u2014the city revoked the tour operator&#8217;s license to offer them. The history of the tunnel, its discovery by an intrepid young man, and the ways it defined and changed his life, makes for good reading.<\/p>\n<p>The intrigue continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day a few years ago I was walking along Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn and there was a makeshift cordon of orange safety cones in the middle of the street, an open manhole cover inside the cordon, and a ladder sticking out of the manhole. There was also, at this busy intersection outside of Trader &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=89\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Oldest Subway Tunnel in the World<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}