They are anonymous. When working person sees them. Yet without them the urban organization and mobility of many cities are totally different. A
New York, they are called Sandhogs , and to them that Gina Levay devoted a great job (see here )
is how Life presented his paper " The project LeVay photographed, Called Simply Water Tunnel # 3 (Tunnel 1 WAS complete in 1917; Tunnel 2 in 1936), WAS first envisioned in 1954, but not Begun Until 1970. At $ 6 trillion, and counting, it's the Largest Construction Project In The Capital city's history, and Among The Most Ambitious engineering projects ever, anywhere. The 60-mile tunnel is slated for completion in IS 2020. "
Obviously at these pictures, I could not help but think of the little masterpiece Colum McCann " This Side of Brightness ", which I had already spoken in " When New York's subways drowns "
Here is what the critic said Gerard Meudal upon its release: "When you think in New York, the first image comes to mind are the skyscrapers Manhattan, all these wonders of architecture started to conquer the sky. Colum McCann chose to explore the inverse of the basements of the city, as impressive as its surface . It's an underworld, underground passageways, dark tunnels where lurks a population left behind, forgotten in the prosperous city. A world that has its laws, its heroes and cowards.
Colum McCann, in a subtly knotted plot, reconciles these poor laborers who at the beginning of the century worked at digging underground galleries, the Italian immigrants, Polish, Irish or blacks like Nathan Walker came from his Georgia native. By linking the fate of these slaves of the night to the homeless today as a shameful secret that Treefog forced to live on the margins of society, the New York novelist, born in Dublin in 1965, Brush hallucinatory portrait of the contemporary world upside . "
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