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- Fascinating. Anything that grows up above ground has a proportionate growth below ground as well.by zkmon
- This is fantastic, but I so hoped it would come with an infographic of NY's underworld, slice of cake style. I recall seeing one somewhere, but my attempts at finding it again all failed.by theletterf
- The video does have something like that, it's not labeled though, rather he goes through each part and highlights the part he's talking aboutby ozyschmozy
- Still waiting for someone to resurrect that old pneumatic tube system...by xg15
- The Boring Company is on it lolby markdown
- There was viral video in January 2024 showing what is under your feet in NY
- So many Ghostbusters II flashbacks watching this.by hinkley
- This is quite informative and useful as I live in NYC. I think in the video he mentioned that the city is collecting all that data on what’s underground to collect all in a database and make repairs easier - anyone know if such data is or will be public, like on data.ny.gov ? And what I’m getting at, is it would be really cool to have this kind of 3d visualization like in the video, but based on actual real data so I could view what’s actually underneath the streets I walk every day.by radicality
- You might run into "security thru obscurity".by euroderf
- Don’t know about this specifically but if you ever watch Rainbolt you know that NYC is pretty legendary for providing crazy data to the public (for example a database of all trees, or insane detail street information)by jayrot
- One of the most informative videos from Practical Engineering channel. I thought I knew NYC infra fairly well, but I learned so much from that video still (like how NYC's electric grid is actually a grid and more fault tolerant).
- Any mention of NYC underground is an opportunity for the antisemites to come crawling out of the woodwork.by throw47733
- An illegal tunnel in a densely populated city like that is a bold move.
This was unexpected though:
> stills taken from videos of the synagogue's interior as well as the room leading to the tunnel, which showed a stained mattress and high chair, respectively, fueled antisemitic conspiracy theories
> A USA Today fact-check stated that the stained mattress seen in viral videos had been removed from behind wood paneling of the synagogue rather than from the tunnel itself, undermining online speculation that the mattresses were in the tunnel
by rdtsc - > Huebner downplayed the seriousness of the charges and said the defendants are all Israelis studying to be rabbis ... Two of the men have dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship and none are married.
> The 13 people, all young men, pleaded not guilty in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn ... Another four defendants were absent because they were in Israel, according to their lawyer, Levi Huebner.
> Justice Adam Perlmutter ordered the defendants ... to turn over their passports.
- It's quite frustrating. The story ends with:
> four defendants refused to accept a plea deal and were set to be tried in April 2025
I can find loads of stories reporting those facts, but I can't find an account of what happened next. Did they change their pleas? Were they tried?
by masfuerte - This is a very weird story.
Religious infighting with 2 fundamentalist sects that somehow boiled down to some people digging a tunnel connecting 2 buildings because of... reasons? Like it seems like they thought that if they built the tunnel that'd magically lead to everyone deciding "You know what, this expansion project is a good thing!"
Very bizarre.
Regardless, I'm glad it got shut down before a collapse killed someone.
by cogman10 - Meanwhile in place of power, cable, and phone lines there is a related 18 mile translucent line hung in order to turn the entire city into one big happy home called a *eruv* -- following the law of the highest of high courts to the letter. [0]by dataviz1000
- I can’t read something like this without thinking of the late great Richard Scarry
Luckily ChatGPt does a pretty good impression https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6a6662e9af6c81918523fb06d1384e74
by dbuxton - This is actually rather impressive. Care to share the prompt you used?by jayrot
- That's where the mutants live. Also, there's a thousand year old, old New York City buried underneath that had bathroom booths with phones in them.by mike_hock
- Argelioby argelio4321
- And those weird booths that look like suicide booths, are no suicide booths. I love you, meatbags! Hello, it’s me, Bender Rodriguez!
- Don't touch the weird pink goo you find down there either.
And if your name is Winston, it's just best if you stay above ground, or stick to the subway system.
by hinkley - Around 2012 I was working near 5th Ave and 14th st, and there was a giant water main break. They had to dig about three stories down in a large intersection, and you could walk near the edge and look in.
It was extraordinary, like something out of a sci-fi where an alien ship has been torn open and the mess of pipes and wires looks organic. It was also a funny case of lost tech / organizational memory -- I heard they had to ask the union to help find retired folks who had worked on the lower levels and could explain why pipes were laid out the way they were.
- Might've been 2014? https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image?phrase=large+wate...by xnx