I've always been fascinated with the history of what's underground in NYC. I like the way you show how deep everything is, and how relative to the tunnel above it.
Pneumatic pipes are used in some hospitals as it sends samples to various destinations within the hospital system. I as a patient jokingly called it "Lunch from surgery" as you heard the clunking as it went around corners above our heads but hidden by the ceiling tiles. It is much faster than walking 4 floors and using elevators.
Tampa General Hospital used pnpneumatic tube systems to send all kinds of small things through the tubes. It saved a lot of time that would take messengers called runners in the hospital to get things sent and received from place to place.
Mail pipes were such an ingenious idea. They are all over the city. In the elegant TV thriller show, White Collar, two entire episodes revolved around these pipes. They were the last two of that fantastic TV show. I remember that civilized show and the ritzy mail pipes with much fondness
I've never been to NYC, but can immagine the city. But the mail, cows, and alligators blew my mind. While watching the mail part, I thought to myself, why no spike has been created in the direction it went. Science was't so much "MAGLEV like", I guess. Excellent video. Probably the mad cow disease originated right there.
I went on one of Bob Diamond’s Tunnel Tours (13:40). So much fun! Also, pneumatic tubes were still being used in Saks Fifth Avenue in ty1970’s when I worked there… I really enjoyed using them…
Cool!😊 We used them at Service Merchandise. Customers would walk thru the displays with a small clipboard w/a blank order ticket and copy down the order number and bring it to a cashier who would take their payment, and send the ticket thru the pneumatic tube to the warehouse were the workers would fill the order and and place the items down the conveyer 'belt' (actually, rolling aluminum tubes). ps...that was the late 70's-early 80's.
35:26 I don’t blame these people. This akes me wonder how many people have died bc of this “mass eviction”. We live in a very small town here and we see people sleeping outdoors more often than we should. Some folks may think and/or say “they need to get a job!!” Unfortunately, some of those people have mental issues. Also, how are you supposed to take a shower and be clean enough to work with no shower? How is one supposed to wash their clothes?? How can you work with a rested,ind when you’ve tried to sleep in the freezing cold all night?? It’s very easy to judge these folks. However, putting yourself in their shoes is a whole new ball game. I don’t live in the nicest house ever, but we have a warm, clean, shelter with food and running hot and cold water. I’ve been on the other side of that fence. It was only for about three days and it was late spring so I didn’t freeze. But it was scary and lonely and just a rotten feeling knowing I didn’t have a bed to sleep in. Or a fridge to get food etc. I guess I’ve made my point. I pray that the folks who are homeless today get some kind of assistance as soon as possible. Whether it be mental/emotional help or financial help or maybe some extra education or ok of the above to help them have a better quality of life. So before you judge that man living under a bridge, or that dirty old lady walking down the street, think about what may have happened in their lives that got them to where they are bc one WANTS to live like that. I want to thank this channel for this video. Y’all did a great job and I found it very interesting and educational. Even entertaining during many moments. Y’all take care yall! 😊😊😊
dont worry turd has a plan for the homeless (READ "PLAN 2025") Its asinine what they put down in writting (even the nazis had the forethought to burn the writting on the "final solution")
35:36 as a public health nurse I can say that there is no single ‘type’ of homeless : those who have no alternative, those who choose to live outside, and those who believe they deserve nothing more. Of course some cross types, and some are outliers.
How about those who believe in their God given right to live FREE, without PAYING just to BREATHE. Property taxes are as criminal as can be, and NOBODY should be paying them. We have the RIGHT to own land, and when FORCED to pay every YEAR to KEEP those lands, that is NOT 'ownership' is it? That is RENT and ROBBERY.
@@kellycarver2500and what is going to pay for the services for that land? Maybe it's different in the States. Here In Vancouver BC Canada, taxes go to pay for policing, fire department, water sewer etc. I know in California where I owned homes, there's a wonderful thing called prop 13 whereby, so long as the property remains within the family ownership the taxes are not increased according to the value. I didn't own the homes long enough for that too be generational or make a difference to me. An example is that taxes on a friend's home in Beverly Hills that her father built in the '40s went from $10,000 a year in 2019 to $60,000 a year when she died and it left the family's ownership. We don't have that here and our property prices in Vancouver rival or surpass anywhere in the world. XoXo PS You can live free on the land here if you want to go up in the bush in the mountains There's plenty of room and fresh water. And the grizzlies and mountain lions I'm sure would be happy to share it. XoXo
2 jobs couldn't get your foot into an apartment in Manhattan. You either stop working so that the state pays your rent with one of its many programs, or you shack up with other people or are lucky to have an apartment passed down to you with some rent stabilization. About to lose your apartment in NYC? Good luck because the shelters were full before and impossible to get actual help now, even if you're working 2 frekn jobs. There is homelessness. For people who think mental illness, drug usage is the reason homelessness exists, there are many people who are mentally ill or abuse drugs with a doorman, all sponsored by parent's ild money from better times years ago. Variables exist. Average rent in NYC, particularly if you're from Manhattan 3000, 4000 5000 upwards.
@@freezyourit i can attest to that. Someone’s aunt moved back home when renovations removed her single-room from rent control; her niece went from Brooklyn to NJ to back home. Another worked in MD Montgomery County the NE PA…. ‘Investors’ were making even marginal housing unaffordable even for healthcare workers, even with traveling stipends. The bottom is gonna fall out soon.
As a kid I could never understand where poop went. My parents just said "down the hole!". But then where? It was really fascinating to learn about all the underground piping and infrastructure that people dont know or think about. I was an odd kid.
Its the Internet and no one will believe me, but I was a master pipe layer (lol) at like 10 years old. How? Simcity 2000. Or maybe it was 3000. But still. @@TheRealCesarLeo
I was a licensed class C Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator and believe me All poop goes to the ocean on the coast. I don't eat anything from the ocean. No wonder sharks are biting more people!!!😂
I remember as a kid seeing the pneumatic tubes in the old Macy's (formerly Abraham & Strauss or A&S) on Fulton St in Brooklyn. I was always fascinated watching the clerk putting a cylinder in the tube with documents and she would press a button - and whooosh! Along it went. Looking up at the ceiling you could see a whole network of pneumatic tubes going every which way. I believe the pipes are still there.
Hey, fellow dude from upstate upstate ny, close to the Adirondacks, that town is pronounced “Oss-in-ing” when you said it the way you did I laughed so hard😂 great video either way
Pneumatic mail is still in use, although usually at a smaller scale. Some malls have them to transfer money to and from the vault room. And the electronic company I worked at used one to transfer documents and parts between two facilities, which were maybe 100m apart
Fascinating--but you omitted the tunnels under Queens College, built while it was the New York Parental School, to connect the original Spanish style buildings.
The architecture of Grand Central is just amazing - I love going to the lower levels where the restaurants are. Once in a while you will see a homeless person literally in rags begging for money or food - they don't go up to the surface - they live in the Metro North tunnels and below - I wish there was more coverage of that. There's a whole city down there and who know what. Probably a dangerous exploration in itself.
Underground asbestos-lined pipes are not "health hazards to the public" You have to breath in the stuff for it to affect your health. So, unless you're taking a backhoe to Broadway and somehow don't get arrested before you hit the steam pipes, you're risk is 0%.
You had more than one sentence to express an idea/concept. You already lost half the readers there. The other half are leftists & don’t grasp it by default.
Only true IF contained. IF the asbestos turns to powder, it can be water born, air born, contact born snd absorbed too. Only if contained is it harmless. And that's not the case.
@@888junkcarsbuyingteam8 yes it is a good subject. I lived 15 miles from the city. I used to take the bus into NY To go to Chinatown when I was in grade school. Then for concerts when I was a little older, then sometimes just for a good cup of coffee or dinner when I was older. It was nice growing up close to “the city”.
In Lisbon- Portugal 🇵🇹 is there undersity part of Roman city. In the middle of the city is a tunnel that open once a year for a few days. It’s amazing 💝🇵🇹
Mail tunnels was an epic idea but hit some huge snags that really dampered efficiency and eventually something much more cost effective and straightforward logical came along thus rendering it obsolete
"much more cost effective and straightforward logical came along" I hope you're not referring to the US Postal Service that loses $$ 6 Billion Dollars a year ! *FJT&FJB & Boycott NYCity and every Democrat/Liberal SchittHole City in the US & Canada*
10:16 I'm certain this must exist in the US .. In Canada farmers who own land on two sides of a busy paver roadway, an have "culverts" built under the road to allow cows to travel to grazing land at their own free will :) Some are built simply to avoid traffic congestion as farms can (according to old laws in place) basically herd cattle where they want on public land, with impunity. Others under passes, are built as "waterways", and cows just allowed to use them :)
As a 60 year old born and bred New Yorker,I feel this project is most definitely needed. Penn Station needs a serious upgrade. New York was designed as a train and bus network as opposed to Los Angeles which was designed for automobile transport. I worked for the MTA 34 years and understand the true definition of mass transit. The Northeast corridor most definitely needs this project and more. We are the backbone of our great nation!
As a person native to LA it’s true. The whole west it’s true. We didn’t used to have the big cities and had/have lots of open space. This is why people opted for cars instead of subways cause it’s more spread out. West coast cities definitely have a different feel than older East Coast ones. I have yet to even ride a subway and definitely admire the public transportation of east coast big cities. It gives a city character and love the history of them. We do have BART and railway systems but not subways. It’s mainly buses and railways.
We used pneumatic tubes at the bank in the late 90s and early 2000s in South Africa to send deposit slips and receive cash if it was finished in the front cashbox (South Africa)
The hospital I work at uses nematic tubes for medication and paperwork. With the longest tubes running several miles connecting the hospital to the clinic.
I think this mail system would been better nowdays. No pollution transfer them between post offices. And less people write letters now so less capacity is needed.
i really enjoyed this video, the insights about new york's hidden layers are fascinating! but honestly, i can't help but think that exploring underground spaces might remove some of the city's raw charm. isn't part of the excitement just wandering through the bustling streets above?
In 1899, Central Park in New York City spanned the area between 59th Street to the south and 110th Street to the north, consuming 51 blocks, or "city streets," in terms of vertical length. , it did not end on 106 street.
Really? The oldest railway tunnel in the world is not in New York. The Butterley Gangroad Tunnel in Derbyshire, England, dates to 1793 and was used initially by horse drawn rail cars, but later by steam trains. The first steam train to use it was in 1813. The tunnel was in use until 1932. The next oldest is the Peak Forest tramway tunnel also in Derbyshire, built in 1795. Just how much research did you do for this?
When energy was pulled directly from the atmosphere or “aether”, there were airships dotting our skies night and day. There are still remnants of these 100+ year old flying behemoths are throughout established cities that weren't completely decimated in 1902 or the last structure-altering-cataclysm they lie to us about. Btw “they” are the hierarchy enslaving you !
There are tons of these in the UK and EU. The UK has even an abandoned shopping centre and night club last operating in the 90s, today they can be accessed thru what looks like a ordinary manhole, but once in there are empty shops, and even some older facilities with the loo and toilets still intact where people literally go 'spend a penny' and attendants desk still there. Some accessed thru restricted basement and sub basements acting as storage and the rubbish skip, with adjacent buildings cemented off. Some are not so its like an underground alleyway. In France the catacombs are full of bones that act as structural support pillars, so engineers enter to check them regularly. Imagine one gives way while you sleep, get lucky and survive but a a skull with its orbital eye socket rolls onto your pillow staring your direrectly and coincidentally its Friday the 13th! Regular stuff like train tunnels, utilities, water and sewage, both operational and defunct military bases and bomb shelters with some converted for goverment document storage still there. Next time you see a manhole cover, you might be standing above one of these where stairs were once there. The subterranean scape changed a lot you may see cemented arches, if smashed thru you likely end up in some car park for example, but some buildings have underground alleyways allowing access to adjacent shops! Some tunnels are so huge there are literally hundreds of kilometres, get lost and die.
The elevated view seen @20:23 (oops @20:31) of the cityscape transitioning into night is a glorious view of Manhattan's roads and shows just how long and straight they are! I know historians will pooh-pooh the very idea but this is unmistakenly what the Romans were made famous for, and its the 'norm' for here. It's standard. Watling Street Lol!
Where ever the Phoenician’s docked their ships, we can see whats left of their antique-tech, or at least the few remnants that Smithsonian, as well as legacy families ,were not capable of brushing under a rug. I wish our species was not so afraid of others perceptions.
Yes it’s been Springtime here in Newark,Nj. Since Febuary 3rd.2024 and makes this Spring 1 month and 20 days early.❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊 I hope you have a great day and a great day ahead of him. Joshua James Perez Birthday December 2nd.1987.today finding out the truth about my years of age getting younger.
So I am a sailor. Whether a sailing vessel is a sloop, a cutter, or a scooter, has nothing to do with cheese. It has to do with the number of sails an the position of the rudder
I always imagined this would be a real thing if email had not of caught on. I mean you see these at banks, Walgreen's drive-thru and warehouses. There could easily be a way to dial an address and use automatic tube-switching will send the capsule to the dialed address.
There is an old unused post office in Michigan that is now a museum that has tubes like that for moving stuff around inside the building. It was a pretty neat system.
Fantastic video. But why at 37:04 does a map image of BOSTON flash onto the screen? It says "current proposal would connect the two separate rail lines" and it does say "Track 61" also...showing it come out of the BCEC? I'd guess it's about the proposed Electrification on the Fairmount commuter rail line...
All of those urban legends about Franklin Roosevelt and Track 61 are absolute nonsense. When Grand Central Terminal was being built between 1903 and 1913, numerous railroad related companies built their own buildings around it. Track 61 was laid down to service the Adams Express Company building. Adams Express was a forerunner of FedEx and UPS. It was originally founded in the 1830s to move packages between Boston and New York. Box cars full of packages would be loaded and unloaded on that siding and sent up to the building on a freight elevator. After Adams Express got out of the delivery business, the property was sold. The Adams building was demolished and replaced by the Waldorf Astoria in 1931. Once the hotel opened, track 61 simply became a storage track. There was no other use for it. In recent years, it was occupied by an old baggage car that was used as a tool car for track repair crews. One fantasist made the utterly ludicrous claim that the baggage car was "armored" and that the clerestory windows [skylights] were "machine gun ports". The siding under the hotel existed LONG before Roosevelt was President. It can clearly be seen on the blueprints dating to the early construction of the Terminal. The construction of the platform, corridors and freight elevator make it impossible for any vehicle larger than a baggage cart to have used them. Anyone who knows anything about the history of Grand Central Terminal is well aware of these facts. That platform had absolutely NOTHING to do with President Roosevelt. Unfortunately, there are always some people who continue to repeat misinformation.
Theres a whole world underneath everyone’s feet. It is responsible for @ least 50% of high strangeness, missing411’s & other government executed hijinx we pay them to not tell us about. Amirite?
Just wish this was time stamped for each layer it could be useful to help navigate if you want to come back for research reference into looking and finding more information.
Nice video but there is one point I need to clear up: It's not that the rails of AmTrak are private property but that there is a federal law that prohibits trespass on any railroad property. There's another twist; while technically AmTrak is a corporation, it is wholly owned by the federal government. This leads to an interesting issue regarding its property since it is part of the USG making it a public service and a private company, like the US Post Office.
@ReYOUniverse the st patricks cathedral shown is not the one that the catcombs are in the one shown is the newer catherdral and the older one is much smaller in a lower part of manhhattan
I would think the subway station at the end of the 7 line - 34th Hudson Yards is the deepest of all of them. Coming up from the train, you have to climb a couple of stairs, with a very long escalator to the street level which takes a whole minute ride. Someone I know used to call it the Bat Cave. The 4/5 lines go pretty deep at 59th St too.
Mutant alligators in NYC sewers is 100% true! They’ve grown fur to adapt to the climate; skinny tails to aid in mobility while walking and no longer need their tails to swim as the water levels remain relatively low; and red eyes to help them see in the dark!🐀
Dude, I once watched a video about bread making and for over 15 minutes the AI narrator pronounced “baked” as “bake-ed” and I kept thought he was saying bacon but there was no bacon anywhere in the video and I was losing my fuckin mind trying to figure out where the bacon was before figuring out it was just a robot voice fucking up the pronunciation. What a waste of my sanity.
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I'm from NYC shout out to my borough Queens I'm in nyc almost everyday still work out in Rego Park always wondered about underground fascinated me and looks scary at the same time wanna go off grid live underground
I've always been fascinated with the history of what's underground in NYC. I like the way you show how deep everything is, and how relative to the tunnel above it.
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Great, informative video 👍
But it needs to be updated to include the synagogue tunnels in Brooklyn 😂
lmaooooo
Pneumatic pipes are used in some hospitals as it sends samples to various destinations within the hospital system. I as a patient jokingly called it "Lunch from surgery" as you heard the clunking as it went around corners above our heads but hidden by the ceiling tiles. It is much faster than walking 4 floors and using elevators.
I sometimes heard a brief clanking in the ceiling near the hallway when I was in the hospital.
Tampa General Hospital used pnpneumatic tube systems to send all kinds of small things through the tubes. It saved a lot of time that would take messengers called runners in the hospital to get things sent and received from place to place.
There als used in banks
Mail pipes were such an ingenious idea. They are all over the city. In the elegant TV thriller show, White Collar, two entire episodes revolved around these pipes. They were the last two of that fantastic TV show. I remember that civilized show and the ritzy mail pipes with much fondness
I've never been to NYC, but can immagine the city. But the mail, cows, and alligators blew my mind. While watching the mail part, I thought to myself, why no spike has been created in the direction it went. Science was't so much "MAGLEV like", I guess. Excellent video.
Probably the mad cow disease originated right there.
@oper4132 Madcow disease and more started here. In fact we made one of them a TV moderator, rachelll madcow..
Yeah male pipes are the best. I will take the El over tunnel anytime 😊
@5 You mean "mail" pipes, no?
And the fact they said it comes out warm and lubricated 😩
I went on one of Bob Diamond’s Tunnel Tours (13:40). So much fun!
Also, pneumatic tubes were still being used in Saks Fifth Avenue in ty1970’s when I worked there… I really enjoyed using them…
I use pneumatic tubes every day at work. Our hospital is pretty big and they save us so much time when sending papers, prescriptions and lab items
Can a politician fit in these tubes you speak of?
Pneumatic tunes are dope asf
@@Joedirt3349pneumatic pubes*
Cool!😊 We used them at Service Merchandise. Customers would walk thru the displays with a small clipboard w/a blank order ticket and copy down the order number and bring it to a cashier who would take their payment, and send the ticket thru the pneumatic tube to the warehouse were the workers would fill the order and and place the items down the conveyer 'belt' (actually, rolling aluminum tubes). ps...that was the late 70's-early 80's.
Cool 😎
35:26 I don’t blame these people. This akes me wonder how many people have died bc of this “mass eviction”. We live in a very small town here and we see people sleeping outdoors more often than we should.
Some folks may think and/or say “they need to get a job!!” Unfortunately, some of those people have mental issues. Also, how are you supposed to take a shower and be clean enough to work with no shower? How is one supposed to wash their clothes?? How can you work with a rested,ind when you’ve tried to sleep in the freezing cold all night??
It’s very easy to judge these folks. However, putting yourself in their shoes is a whole new ball game. I don’t live in the nicest house ever, but we have a warm, clean, shelter with food and running hot and cold water.
I’ve been on the other side of that fence. It was only for about three days and it was late spring so I didn’t freeze. But it was scary and lonely and just a rotten feeling knowing I didn’t have a bed to sleep in. Or a fridge to get food etc.
I guess I’ve made my point. I pray that the folks who are homeless today get some kind of assistance as soon as possible. Whether it be mental/emotional help or financial help or maybe some extra education or ok of the above to help them have a better quality of life.
So before you judge that man living under a bridge, or that dirty old lady walking down the street, think about what may have happened in their lives that got them to where they are bc one WANTS to live like that.
I want to thank this channel for this video. Y’all did a great job and I found it very interesting and educational. Even entertaining during many moments.
Y’all take care yall! 😊😊😊
dont worry turd has a plan for the homeless (READ "PLAN 2025")
Its asinine what they put down in writting (even the nazis had the forethought to burn the writting on the "final solution")
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I understand what you mean.
I bet you've never been camping, or in the military.
Thank you for your words…..I feel so bad for these lost people
35:36 as a public health nurse I can say that there is no single ‘type’ of homeless : those who have no alternative, those who choose to live outside, and those who believe they deserve nothing more.
Of course some cross types, and some are outliers.
How about those who believe in their God given right to live FREE, without PAYING just to BREATHE. Property taxes are as criminal as can be, and NOBODY should be paying them. We have the RIGHT to own land, and when FORCED to pay every YEAR to KEEP those lands, that is NOT 'ownership' is it? That is RENT and ROBBERY.
@@kellycarver2500and what is going to pay for the services for that land? Maybe it's different in the States. Here In Vancouver BC Canada, taxes go to pay for policing, fire department, water sewer etc. I know in California where I owned homes, there's a wonderful thing called prop 13 whereby, so long as the property remains within the family ownership the taxes are not increased according to the value. I didn't own the homes long enough for that too be generational or make a difference to me. An example is that taxes on a friend's home in Beverly Hills that her father built in the '40s went from $10,000 a year in 2019 to $60,000 a year when she died and it left the family's ownership. We don't have that here and our property prices in Vancouver rival or surpass anywhere in the world. XoXo PS You can live free on the land here if you want to go up in the bush in the mountains There's plenty of room and fresh water. And the grizzlies and mountain lions I'm sure would be happy to share it. XoXo
2 jobs couldn't get your foot into an apartment in Manhattan. You either stop working so that the state pays your rent with one of its many programs, or you shack up with other people or are lucky to have an apartment passed down to you with some rent stabilization. About to lose your apartment in NYC? Good luck because the shelters were full before and impossible to get actual help now, even if you're working 2 frekn jobs.
There is homelessness.
For people who think mental illness, drug usage is the reason homelessness exists, there are many people who are mentally ill or abuse drugs with a doorman, all sponsored by parent's ild money from better times years ago.
Variables exist.
Average rent in NYC, particularly if you're from Manhattan 3000, 4000 5000 upwards.
@@freezyourit i can attest to that. Someone’s aunt moved back home when renovations removed her single-room from rent control; her niece went from Brooklyn to NJ to back home. Another worked in MD Montgomery County the NE PA…. ‘Investors’ were making even marginal housing unaffordable even for healthcare workers, even with traveling stipends.
The bottom is gonna fall out soon.
@@freezyourit You couldn't pay me to live there! NO THANX! I can't even stand the traffic much less anything else.
As a kid I could never understand where poop went. My parents just said "down the hole!". But then where? It was really fascinating to learn about all the underground piping and infrastructure that people dont know or think about. I was an odd kid.
I'm sure you learned about underground piping from a young age 😂
Its the Internet and no one will believe me, but I was a master pipe layer (lol) at like 10 years old. How? Simcity 2000. Or maybe it was 3000. But still. @@TheRealCesarLeo
I was a licensed class C Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator and believe me All poop goes to the ocean on the coast. I don't eat anything from the ocean. No wonder sharks are biting more people!!!😂
@@David-g5n2eThat "treatment" part is a pretty critical part of the process 🤦♂️
Don’t be ashamed of young curiosity, it’s a sign of a active mind and a asset .
Very interesting examples of the city's underground.
So many diverse tunnels: no wonder they have severe rodent problems.
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Hero’s in a half shell
Nah there’s JEWels down there.
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I remember as a kid seeing the pneumatic tubes in the old Macy's (formerly Abraham & Strauss or A&S) on Fulton St in Brooklyn. I was always fascinated watching the clerk putting a cylinder in the tube with documents and she would press a button - and whooosh! Along it went. Looking up at the ceiling you could see a whole network of pneumatic tubes going every which way. I believe the pipes are still there.
Hey, fellow dude from upstate upstate ny, close to the Adirondacks, that town is pronounced “Oss-in-ing” when you said it the way you did I laughed so hard😂 great video either way
Yes I heated that too, and this is how we know that narration here is done by AI,
Pneumatic mail is still in use, although usually at a smaller scale. Some malls have them to transfer money to and from the vault room. And the electronic company I worked at used one to transfer documents and parts between two facilities, which were maybe 100m apart
That Mail pipes thing blew my mind.! No wonder futurama predicts traveling by tube in the future! 😂
The show White Collar ends with a heist using mail tunnels under NYC
People already travel in tubes. Subways are tubes.
Fascinating--but you omitted the tunnels under Queens College, built while it was the New York Parental School, to connect the original Spanish style buildings.
Who's here after the underground synagogue was discovered? 😂
I might have been initially a month ago?
Me...
New city under New York...where evil things are done...blessings
Me. NYC is so old it's crumbling into the earth daily. Just a matter of time before it all crashes....
Wow cool! Never knew it was there
The architecture of Grand Central is just amazing - I love going to the lower levels where the restaurants are. Once in a while you will see a homeless person literally in rags begging for money or food - they don't go up to the surface - they live in the Metro North tunnels and below - I wish there was more coverage of that. There's a whole city down there and who know what. Probably a dangerous exploration in itself.
Underground asbestos-lined pipes are not "health hazards to the public" You have to breath in the stuff for it to affect your health. So, unless you're taking a backhoe to Broadway and somehow don't get arrested before you hit the steam pipes, you're risk is 0%.
You had more than one sentence to express an idea/concept. You already lost half the readers there. The other half are leftists & don’t grasp it by default.
Precisely what I was thinking.
Funny comment! Thanks
Only true IF contained. IF the asbestos turns to powder, it can be water born, air born, contact born snd absorbed too. Only if contained is it harmless. And that's not the case.
They are when you have to do maintaining work on them , or even replace them, this is what video said , they don’t touch them unless they have to,
Thank you.. this was very interesting!
Love this , I’m a native New Yorker .
I'm sorry to hear that, my sincerest condolences.
You poor child😢
Thanks for being here :)
It's funny, but that statement dissolves the moment you have some of our pizza@@MadScientist267
Just started the video but I’m going to guess the sewer system and the subway system for starters. 😜
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Holland Tunnel... that's a feat by itself! All done by pure hand and dedication
The holland tunnel is under a river. Not nyc.
@johndelconte9915 pretty darn close and still a great subject to talk about.
@@888junkcarsbuyingteam8 i agree
@@johndelconte9915 good 20% of it is under the nyc, it begins at 6th ave
@@888junkcarsbuyingteam8 yes it is a good subject. I lived 15 miles from the city. I used to take the bus into NY To go to Chinatown when I was in grade school. Then for concerts when I was a little older, then sometimes just for a good cup of coffee or dinner when I was older. It was nice growing up close to “the city”.
In Lisbon- Portugal 🇵🇹 is there undersity part of Roman city.
In the middle of the city is a tunnel that open once a year for a few days. It’s amazing 💝🇵🇹
6:00 Businesses like Home Depot still use pneumatic mail systems, to transfer paperwork and even cash, within the building, for security and deposits.
I've been all underneath New York some wild shit down there some of the mail tunnels are some of the most untouched and coolest spots underneath
What lies under New York? You don’t really want to know.
Great video. Thanks for making it published. I knew about it a long time ago...congratulations .
Mail tunnels was an epic idea but hit some huge snags that really dampered efficiency and eventually something much more cost effective and straightforward logical came along thus rendering it obsolete
"much more cost effective and straightforward logical came along"
I hope you're not referring to the US Postal Service that loses $$ 6 Billion Dollars a year !
*FJT&FJB & Boycott NYCity and every Democrat/Liberal SchittHole City in the US & Canada*
10:16 I'm certain this must exist in the US .. In Canada farmers who own land on two sides of a busy paver roadway, an have "culverts" built under the road to allow cows to travel to grazing land at their own free will :)
Some are built simply to avoid traffic congestion as farms can (according to old laws in place) basically herd cattle where they want on public land, with impunity. Others under passes, are built as "waterways", and cows just allowed to use them :)
Why did the cow cross the road? Because she had a culvert!
Love the AI pronunciation of Ossining, NY. !!
Editors not available??
Seriously. This "guy's" voice was either artificial or one of the world's worst narrators. Or possibly an alien with no concept of human feelings
As a 60 year old born and bred New Yorker,I feel this project is most definitely needed. Penn Station needs a serious upgrade. New York was designed as a train and bus network as opposed to Los Angeles which was designed for automobile transport. I worked for the MTA 34 years and understand the true definition of mass transit. The Northeast corridor most definitely needs this project and more. We are the backbone of our great nation!
As a person native to LA it’s true. The whole west it’s true. We didn’t used to have the big cities and had/have lots of open space. This is why people opted for cars instead of subways cause it’s more spread out. West coast cities definitely have a different feel than older East Coast ones. I have yet to even ride a subway and definitely admire the public transportation of east coast big cities. It gives a city character and love the history of them. We do have BART and railway systems but not subways. It’s mainly buses and railways.
We used pneumatic tubes at the bank in the late 90s and early 2000s in South Africa to send deposit slips and receive cash if it was finished in the front cashbox (South Africa)
A lot banks in America still have them today
Nice video. Interesting to watch till the end. Tnx 4sharing. Watching from DUBAI 👍
Tunnels with crap all over it and baby chairs.
But we won’t talk about that.
Dem small hats
We don't talk about bruno.
Pneumatic delivery tubes aren't that odd. There are still banks in the US that use them for drive through service.
8:04 What's all that paper on the floor? Is that someone's mail?
Letters to Santa😢
Wow what are great story of history! More story that can change like for betters thanks people how are smart!
Dark days is good documentary about freedom tunnel
They sell tours for the City Hall subway station. It’s amazing to visit.
2:50 that is in Los Angeles. Right there between Sylmar and Santa Clarita. Where the 14, 5 and 210 fwys meet.
Where Foothill Blvd starts and it ends
@@KCTV seems to me we are locals, to Los Angeles that is.
But fr being from here and living here my whole life this video intrigued me to watch. Thanks for the upload and documentary
1793 Ft George, ship remains buried during expansion of shore line
The professional narrative is great - very interesting!
The hospital I work at uses nematic tubes for medication and paperwork. With the longest tubes running several miles connecting the hospital to the clinic.
I think this mail system would been better nowdays. No pollution transfer them between post offices. And less people write letters now so less capacity is needed.
You forgot about all the junk mail!
The Pneumatic Internet was interesting.
i really enjoyed this video, the insights about new york's hidden layers are fascinating! but honestly, i can't help but think that exploring underground spaces might remove some of the city's raw charm. isn't part of the excitement just wandering through the bustling streets above?
Fascinating!!! Many thanks!!!
Thank you for this well done, fascinating video. Subscribed.
Awesome! Thank you for Sharing! 💯✴
In 1899, Central Park in New York City spanned the area between 59th Street to the south and 110th Street to the north, consuming 51 blocks, or "city streets," in terms of vertical length. , it did not end on 106 street.
Really? The oldest railway tunnel in the world is not in New York. The Butterley Gangroad Tunnel in Derbyshire, England, dates to 1793 and was used initially by horse drawn rail cars, but later by steam trains. The first steam train to use it was in 1813. The tunnel was in use until 1932. The next oldest is the Peak Forest tramway tunnel also in Derbyshire, built in 1795. Just how much research did you do for this?
What were rhey uses for as from what i hear tell they went to asylums, and cemeteries
Built for purpose of railway. Easy ...
Most Americans appear to think America is the only country in the world.
Well tell Ridleys Believe it or Not! They have the NYC B'klyn site as the oldest.
When energy was pulled directly from the atmosphere or “aether”, there were airships dotting our skies night and day. There are still remnants of these 100+ year old flying behemoths are throughout established cities that weren't completely decimated in 1902 or the last structure-altering-cataclysm they lie to us about.
Btw “they” are the hierarchy enslaving you !
Cool video; thanks for posting.
There are tons of these in the UK and EU. The UK has even an abandoned shopping centre and night club last operating in the 90s, today they can be accessed thru what looks like a ordinary manhole, but once in there are empty shops, and even some older facilities with the loo and toilets still intact where people literally go 'spend a penny' and attendants desk still there. Some accessed thru restricted basement and sub basements acting as storage and the rubbish skip, with adjacent buildings cemented off. Some are not so its like an underground alleyway. In France the catacombs are full of bones that act as structural support pillars, so engineers enter to check them regularly. Imagine one gives way while you sleep, get lucky and survive but a a skull with its orbital eye socket rolls onto your pillow staring your direrectly and coincidentally its Friday the 13th! Regular stuff like train tunnels, utilities, water and sewage, both operational and defunct military bases and bomb shelters with some converted for goverment document storage still there. Next time you see a manhole cover, you might be standing above one of these where stairs were once there. The subterranean scape changed a lot you may see cemented arches, if smashed thru you likely end up in some car park for example, but some buildings have underground alleyways allowing access to adjacent shops! Some tunnels are so huge there are literally hundreds of kilometres, get lost and die.
The photo is of St Patricks Cathedral; the catacombs are under St Patricks Old Cathedral on Mulberry St.
The elevated view seen @20:23 (oops @20:31) of the cityscape transitioning into night is a glorious view of Manhattan's roads and shows just how long and straight they are! I know historians will pooh-pooh the very idea but this is unmistakenly what the Romans were made famous for, and its the 'norm' for here. It's standard. Watling Street Lol!
Where ever the Phoenician’s docked their ships, we can see whats left of their antique-tech, or at least the few remnants that Smithsonian, as well as legacy families ,were not capable of brushing under a rug. I wish our species was not so afraid of others perceptions.
Verry interesting to know this. Nice voice to listen to...
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1:13 I might be late to the party but I just noticed that when the narrator says to subscribe the actual subscribe button lights up.
Whenever anyone says subscribe in any video it will light up
I guess this is a good day , I learned something new. Can't believe I've never noticed that TY.
@@Makeitmakesense2 probably because I'm always watching it in full screen or mobile that I didn't notice it.
So I am a sailor. Whether a sailing vessel is a sloop, a cutter, or a scooter, has nothing to do with cheese. It has to do with the number of sails an the position of the rudder
My bad I meant scooner, not scooter. Typo
good one, thanks. i spent 20 years in NYC and always thought it was full of history we want and dont want to know.
Pneumatic mail is just frickin cool af
I always imagined this would be a real thing if email had not of caught on. I mean you see these at banks, Walgreen's drive-thru and warehouses. There could easily be a way to dial an address and use automatic tube-switching will send the capsule to the dialed address.
There is an old unused post office in Michigan that is now a museum that has tubes like that for moving stuff around inside the building. It was a pretty neat system.
Fantastic video. But why at 37:04 does a map image of BOSTON flash onto the screen? It says "current proposal would connect the two separate rail lines" and it does say "Track 61" also...showing it come out of the BCEC? I'd guess it's about the proposed Electrification on the Fairmount commuter rail line...
All of those urban legends about Franklin Roosevelt and Track 61 are absolute nonsense. When Grand Central Terminal was being built between 1903 and 1913, numerous railroad related companies built their own buildings around it. Track 61 was laid down to service the Adams Express Company building. Adams Express was a forerunner of FedEx and UPS. It was originally founded in the 1830s to move packages between Boston and New York. Box cars full of packages would be loaded and unloaded on that siding and sent up to the building on a freight elevator. After Adams Express got out of the delivery business, the property was sold. The Adams building was demolished and replaced by the Waldorf Astoria in 1931. Once the hotel opened, track 61 simply became a storage track. There was no other use for it. In recent years, it was occupied by an old baggage car that was used as a tool car for track repair crews. One fantasist made the utterly ludicrous claim that the baggage car was "armored" and that the clerestory windows [skylights] were "machine gun ports".
The siding under the hotel existed LONG before Roosevelt was President. It can clearly be seen on the blueprints dating to the early construction of the Terminal. The construction of the platform, corridors and freight elevator make it impossible for any vehicle larger than a baggage cart to have used them. Anyone who knows anything about the history of Grand Central Terminal is well aware of these facts. That platform had absolutely NOTHING to do with President Roosevelt. Unfortunately, there are always some people who continue to repeat misinformation.
What an informative lovely voice, thank you.✨🌺
I definitely remember nyc at age 17 years 11 months years old on September 11th, 2001 and that tragic day.
We were using pneumatic 'mailing' in our hospitals in 1970 in Phoenix.
Same in Illinois Hospital 1976
There’s a underground world living in New York
reptilians
Theres a whole world underneath everyone’s feet. It is responsible for @ least 50% of high strangeness, missing411’s & other government executed hijinx we pay them to not tell us about.
Amirite?
Stick all the migrates there
@@indianastanstick you there too
Yep the Mole ppl
Your fact numbers are correct thank you for a wonderful video ❤
Now its children and underground tunnles poor children save the children
Just wish this was time stamped for each layer it could be useful to help navigate if you want to come back for research reference into looking and finding more information.
Don’t forget Dinohattan!
Majestic.. 😂 opportunities.. 🤣 was this video recorded in the beginning of the 2000s?
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Wow to the extreme
0:18 new york is a majestic city?!?!
😂
Nice video but there is one point I need to clear up: It's not that the rails of AmTrak are private property but that there is a federal law that prohibits trespass on any railroad property. There's another twist; while technically AmTrak is a corporation, it is wholly owned by the federal government. This leads to an interesting issue regarding its property since it is part of the USG making it a public service and a private company, like the US Post Office.
God wins❤❤
That was a most intriguing topic.
“The dead govern the living.”
Auguste Comte
“When man’s evil is no longer a quantifiable number, then the dead shall walk the earth” - Mr. Beast
@ReYOUniverse the st patricks cathedral shown is not the one that the catcombs are in the one shown is the newer catherdral and the older one is much smaller in a lower part of manhhattan
But where did the river of slime flow? You know, the one the Ghostbusters found?
The first railway/plateway/tramway tunnel in the world was the Fritchley Tunnel, built in 1793.
43:59 Seneca Village: worst and best example of ‘eminent domain’.
I would think the subway station at the end of the 7 line - 34th Hudson Yards is the deepest of all of them. Coming up from the train, you have to climb a couple of stairs, with a very long escalator to the street level which takes a whole minute ride. Someone I know used to call it the Bat Cave. The 4/5 lines go pretty deep at 59th St too.
Mutant alligators in NYC sewers is 100% true! They’ve grown fur to adapt to the climate; skinny tails to aid in mobility while walking and no longer need their tails to swim as the water levels remain relatively low; and red eyes to help them see in the dark!🐀
They congregate in dc and cali i hear
It’s pronounced AHH-Sin-Ing (Ossining) just for future reference! Love the video super detailed and interesting!! Thank you!!
Yeah id imagine that ship was either intentionally OR ACCIDENTLY SUNK, HOW ELSE WOULD IT HAVE SUNK? IS THERE A 3RD OPTION 😂
I work around Atlantic and Court st really cool info here
‘Ossining’ is pronounced ‘Awe - sinning’ not ‘Oh - sinning’….computer generated narration strikes again…
Dude, I once watched a video about bread making and for over 15 minutes the AI narrator pronounced “baked” as “bake-ed” and I kept thought he was saying bacon but there was no bacon anywhere in the video and I was losing my fuckin mind trying to figure out where the bacon was before figuring out it was just a robot voice fucking up the pronunciation. What a waste of my sanity.
Stop your blathering
Also.....a Mike Doughty song
Its more like "Ah-sinning" actually
No it isnt haha! It's OSS like Ah. You must be embarrassed.
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Very interesting video
I wonder if one were to fart into the mail chutes,a person at other end could sniff it😮
I'm from NYC shout out to my borough Queens I'm in nyc almost everyday still work out in Rego Park always wondered about underground fascinated me and looks scary at the same time wanna go off grid live underground
The sacharine narration is painful.
It sounded to me like he had sugar where he shouldn't.🙄😂
you one of those sh*tty human beings that by not liking someone voice give you the right to hate😂
This one isn't as bad as others which You know it's A.I. and AI is probably satanic?
Fall asleep with it
Sounds like Disney
Love this video well done😊
Why we using metric system to discuss nyc ..did we not dump all that tea inva harbor once to skip all this
Great Video! 👍