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Article: Tunnel of love
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- The Village Voice
- Article date:
- May 7, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Village Voice May 7, 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Nestled against a rusting pier of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, the construction site at Nelson and Hicks streets in Red Hook is remarkable only for its gritty obscurity. But just beyond the makeshift, 12-foot plywood wall and chain-link fence is an entrance to what's been called the "eighth wonder of the modern world."
It is City Water Tunnel #3, a 60-mile subterranean aqueduct running from Yonkers to Staten Island via all five boroughs. Here in Red Rook, the tunnel sits 584 feet beneath the street--about half as deep as the Chrysler Building is tall. By the time it opens in 2002, the tunnel will be among the biggest public works project in the western hemisphere, with a $6 billion price ...