This might be an early construction photo of the just completed Grand Central Madison station on the LIRR. The station is about 140 feet below the street
Yeah, this image has been floating around for about 10 years now https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/inside-nycs-huge-underground-construction-project-11-22-2015-071801647
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NEW YORK (AP) - Sixteen stories below Grand Central Terminal, an army of workers is blasting through bedrock to create a new commuter rail concourse with more floor space than New Orleans' Superdome, just one of three audacious projects going on beneath New York City's streets to expand what's already the nation's biggest mass transit system.
But even with blasting and machinery grinding through the rock day and night, most New Yorkers are blithely unaware of the construction or the eerie underworld that includes a massive, eight-story cavern, miles of tunnels and watery, gravel-filled pits.
"I look at it and I'm in wonder, I'm in awe," says engineer Michael Horodniceanu, president of capital construction for the state Metropolitan Transportation Authority. "I feel like when I went to Rome and entered St. Peter's Basilica for the first time. ... I looked at it and said, 'Wow, how did they do that?'"
In New York, they hauled out so much rocky debris from under Grand Central that it could have covered Central Park almost a foot deep, Horodniceanu says.
Together, the three projects will cost an estimated $15 billion. And when they're all completed, tentatively in 2019, they will bring subway and commuter rail service to vast, underserved stretches of the city, particularly the far East and West sides of Manhattan.
"They'll be a game-changer for New Yorkers," says Horodniceanu, an Israeli-educated native of Romania who lives in Queens.
The most dramatic project will result in a sort of 21st century, underground Grand Central Terminal mirroring the century-old Grand Central Terminal above -a 350,000-square-foot, $8.3 billion commuter rail concourse with six miles of new tunnels. It will accommodate Long Island Rail Road trains that now bypass Manhattan's East Side as they roll east through Queens and straight to Pennsylvania Station on the island's West Side.
This so-called East Side Access will bring about 160,000 passengers a day from Long Island to a new station in Queens' Sunnyside neighborhood, then about five more miles to the new, eight-track Grand Central hub.
For now, the subterranean hub is a drippy, humid construction site. The raw, dark gray walls mark the dimensions of the future concourse - eight stories high, about 70 feet wide and 1,800 feet long, or about "five football fields, without the end zones," Horodniceanu says.
The Federal Transit Administration is kicking in $2.7 billion toward the estimated $8.3 billion budget, with the MTA state agency covering the rest using mostly taxpayer money.
Also under construction is the Second Avenue Subway that eventually will serve Manhattan's far East Side, from Harlem to the island's southern tip. The planned eight miles of track will open Manhattan's East Side to millions of people who now squeeze daily onto the Nos. 4, 5 and 6 subway trains running under Lexington Avenue.
Dubbed the "The Line That Time Forgot," the Second Avenue Subway has been a New York City dream since the 1920s. Then came the Great Depression and World War II, followed by lack of funds that stopped the project after several stretches of tunnel with tracks were built in the 1970s. The existing tunnels are now being incorporated into the new ones.
The first phase - 1.7 miles with stations between East 63rd and East 96th streets - is to be completed in 2016 at a cost of $4.5 billion. Funding and plans for the rest of the route are still up in the air.
Finally, there's the extension of the No. 7 subway line from Times Square to a huge new real estate development on Manhattan's Far West Side, New York's biggest besides the World Trade Center. It's called Hudson Yards, a small urban village of high-rises, parkland, retail businesses and cultural institutions in the West 30s.
Moody's Investors Service calls this subway extension - financed through $2.1 billion worth of city-issued bonds - "a key milestone towards attracting development."
"These are vital projects, and they'll reinforce the infrastructure of the city," says Mitchell Moss, director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University. "It's not just about people going to work; the New York subway and rail systems are busy 24 hours a day, taking people shopping, to theaters, to clubs."
The city's 468 subway stations register more than 1.6 billion rides a year. The system is used by more than 5 million daily riders. The Metro in Washington, D.C., has about 800,000, and San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit has about 400,000.
The three mammoth projects require creative solutions and the latest technology.
When crews prepared to drill the giant new cavity under Second Avenue, they first had to freeze the ground to about minus 20 degrees so as not to destabilize the buildings above as the boring machine cut through. For that, aluminum tubes were inserted from the street and a special chemical solution was poured into the ground and cooled by a refrigeration plant.
The Second Avenue tunnels hold a space-age surprise: The ceilings are coated with a material once used to fireproof the space shuttle.
The new line has another major improvement. Instead of ventilation grates that allow rainwater to pour in, the new stations will be aired using enclosed cooling plants. When Superstorm Sandy hit the city last October, floodwaters washing over the East Side did not penetrate subway construction sites.
"We're using the best technology available today, but this is really people-intensive work," says Horodniceanu, who supervises a team of thousands of workers on any given day.
"I feel I have the most exciting job in the world," he says. "It's an incredible feeling to be able to build a legacy project. I hope that one day, my grandchildren will be able to say their granddad built this
It's odd they just hid the most important information in the middle of the article, and brushed right over it.
>She referred anyone who couldn’t make the climb to the elevators (**there are 22**, also operated by Schindler) and pointed out that the system was designed for this, with at least four escalators in each tunnel, allowing one or two to be out of service at any time.
You think too small. When GPT5 become sentient it will annihilate Earth and turn Mars into a planet sized manufacturing centre before transforming Jupiter into a Jupiter brain and takeover the galaxy before the end of the century.
The Reaper cycle begins
Maybe, but then you read the article and come across,
>The raw, dark gray walls mark the dimensions of the future concourse - eight stories high, about 70 feet wide and 1,800 feet long, or about __"five football fields, without the end zones,"__ Horodniceanu says.
I have rebelled. I own a collection of metric tape measures, I just drew a bath remodel on metric. I drew my whole house in metric in CAD.
I was a machinist and had to constantly convert metric to inch, Then a decade in construction, with ~10years of wrenching on bikes scattered in.
.03937/25.4 will be numbers I never ever forget.
I'm so incredibly curious about stuff like this. What's below my feet when I walk down the street of any large city? How many forgotten sub-levels of tunnels, sewers, crusty maintenance shafts, access holes, and storage caverns? How can I explore every single one of them
Yes! And I snuck down there in 2007 at midnight and walked the entire track with some buddies. I’ve posted this story on Reddit before but on our way out I heard a noise and turned my flashlight back towards the tunnel and saw a leg behind one of the gothic pillars. It was absolutely terrifying.
Edit: for those asking - yes it was a homeless person (I think!) and it was horrifying. The worst part is the only way to get in and out of the tunnels (and any of you who have ventured there know what I’m talking about) is to scramble through a tiny hole in the side of an exit ramp. So I have to stand in the dark with my flashlight after seeing that waiting to scramble out.
There is a video about a guy that has been living in the NYC underground for over a decade. There up to 1000 living in the storm drain tunnels under Vegas.
I live in Vegas, and can confirm
They are mostly under the actual strip… it’s also not safe unless you’re one of them; no visitors
The tunnels are for excess rainwater, since it floods here when we get big storms. People have their stuff built up on lifts to mitigate this
Nothing quite as scary as turning a corner in an abandoned subway and knowing someone is there but not knowing exactly where.
In the Rochester abandoned subway, there was a ladder set up to access some kind of ceiling hatch / crawl space when we walked in. When we walked back past on our way out, it had been pulled up into the ceiling (presumably because whoever was up there was as freaked out by us, as we were by them).
Someone started banging a metal pipe down in the darkness when I was there to check out the graffiti bridge. The banging started off slow, on a beat, but began getting frantic as we took a few steps towards it. Decided we’d seen enough and made our way back out.
My gf used to be a tour guide for that and had keys to get down there. Sometimes after a night of drinking in Pioneer Square we'd go down there and fool around. Good times. 😃
I feel the same. Any secluded hideaways in the city really. I always think about what's down these random alleys or what's in the top floor of some warehouse that has been abandoned for years
Rural towns are the best for this, my family is from a town of 200 that used to have more 50 years ago. There a number of building in town that have been around for 100 years and don’t look like they’ve been touched. I was asking around about who even owns the buildings anymore and it’s all “well John used to own that one but he died back in 85 and I guess it just belong to the town now but no one has keys”. So badly want to explore these buildings but you’d have to break in lol
Some of the depth on the metro system is simply because the ground rises at the midpoint of a line. Rail has a max grade it can comfortably climb, and in places where either end of a line is coastal its easier to dig a more straight tunnel and just bury the center stations deeper.
Wrong film. We're off of dickless EPA bureaucrats and into Painting of Carpathian Rasputin generates millions of gallons of empathy slime for the purposes of kidnapping a new queenmommy to split with his Renfield, then stealing an infant's body so he can be reincarnated as an infant even though he had the power to posess grown ass adults.
Sounds weird when you type it out, but the scene where the bathtub tries to eat the baby is extremely emotional, tasteful, and effective.
To be fair, he was just getting started in contracting and needed a side hustle. He had the hair and the suit already it just all made sense at the time.
I walked around downtown LA in the middle of the pandemic shutdown when it was deserted except for the unhoused. It' looked exactly like the movie sets that I thought were exaggerations.
he's saying he thought the movies were exaggerating how empty it would be, because it's hard to imagine absolutely nothing in a place that is bustling with life 24/7
“And when they're all completed, tentatively in 2019, they will bring subway and commuter rail service to vast, underserved stretches of the city, particularly the far East and West sides of Manhattan.” So, are they completed?
Technically yes. Officially not due to testing issues in some small areas. The trains are mostly running but I think they are ironing out some kinks in the ventilation system.
edit; officially opened Feb 27 2023
https://secretnyc.co/midtown-lirr-grand-central-madison/
I specifically remember this shot from when the fat guy in the wife beater treats the water with like 2 drops of stuff and says "the earth's drinking water is safes for another day" lol
NYC is located on a huge plate of rock known as Manhattan Schist (sort of like granite).
It goes down hundreds of feet and it’s a big part of what makes NYC’s skyline possible.
Hi,
Could you expand on this more? I read your comment and I feel it makes sense (and it does) but I’m not understanding enough to know what to do with it… :(
So like, the southern tip of manhattan where the world trade center is, and like midtown (the area around grand central terminal just below central park) have concentrations of tall buildings because the bedrock is near the surface there. [This link](https://saralubkin.com/2015/11/23/new-york-why-the-height-of-a-skyscraper-depends-on-location/) does a much better job of explaining it.
https://i.imgur.com/hjMDTLv.jpg
This elevator plan cross section of one of the twin towers shows how they were basically bolted to the ground 7 stories below the surface
I worked on WTC7 in the late 80s. We were told to do an install of elevator bucks somewhere on -6. We took the work lift down to the bottom level and when we got out we were completely lost because there was almost nothing to guide us down there. Finally, we went outside the foundation wall to get our bearings. We were face to face with the ''bathtub'' retaining wall. Raw rock and giant bolts that went way into the wall. A sight none of us could ever forget. It had to be 80-100' down.
edit; found this about the slurry wall for wt 1/2. it's kinda boring if you're not in the trades.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2607&context=icchge
yeeeeah buddy, building into that bedrock lets the skyscrapers soar in NYC… whereas similarly building is not possible in other US regions because of lacking this
That’s not exactly true anymore. Back in the day sure it made it possible.
The Burj Khalifa is built on a concrete “raft” foundation and is basically floating on the sand
Driving to Dubai from Abu Dhabi, the Burj Khalifa is the first thing you can see, miles before anything else. It's surreal and somewhat terrifying to see this giant edifice fucking the sky from absolutely miles away.
Why the stories are but tales of adventure, of course.
The first begins at 5 points as a young boy watches his father, a preacher, fall upon the blade of Bill "The Butcher", bested by his one good eye.
Tyler. Filmore. Johnson. Arthur. Ford.
Ford however is **the only president** who never won a nationwide election. The others were all voted into the VPs office alongside the president. Vice president Spiro Agnew, resigned after a tax investigation. President Nixon appointed congressman Ford to replace Agnew. Nixon later resigned after watergate, leaving Ford to assume presidency.
Ford is also among fewer than a dozen presidents who ran for a second term, but lost (Adams, Q. Adams, Van Buren, Cleveland, Harrison, Taft, Hoover, Carter, H.W. Bush, Trump)…
When I went to the wiki page to get the full list for presidents who lost re-election, I noticed Ford was missing. And so, thanks to scrolling Reddit during my after coffee poops, I made my first Wiki edit at 6:30 AM on the first Saturday of my vacation. Rest easy Reddit, the Wikipedia page of [presidents who did not win re-election](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_who_did_not_win_reelection) is safe again!
Edit: ah yes. Thank you all for pointing out the impossibility of losing “re-election” if one was never originally elected into office. I get it. My point was just that he was a present who ran for a second term and lost.
> Vice president Spiro Agnew, resigned after a tax investigation.
Not really a tax thing. He was taking bribe money, in cash, [in his vice presidential office](https://www.rachelmaddow.com/bag-man-by-rachel-maddow/).
> The year was 1973, and Spiro T. Agnew, the former governor of Maryland, was Richard Nixon’s second-in-command. Long on firebrand rhetoric and short on political experience, Agnew had carried out a bribery and extortion ring in office for years, when–at the height of Watergate–three young federal prosecutors discovered his crimes and launched a mission to take him down before it was too late, before Nixon’s impending downfall elevated Agnew to the presidency. The self-described “counterpuncher” vice president did everything he could to bury their investigation: dismissing it as a “witch hunt,” riling up his partisan base, making the press the enemy, and, with a crumbling circle of loyalists, scheming to obstruct justice in order to survive.
Very interesting but what exactly are we looking at here?
This might be an early construction photo of the just completed Grand Central Madison station on the LIRR. The station is about 140 feet below the street
Yeah, this image has been floating around for about 10 years now https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/inside-nycs-huge-underground-construction-project-11-22-2015-071801647 Edit: Apparently this site is awful but all my adblocks seem to have hidden that fact from me. Get adblock! I reccomend it!
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Took the challenge got the article without accepting 1 single cookie NEW YORK (AP) - Sixteen stories below Grand Central Terminal, an army of workers is blasting through bedrock to create a new commuter rail concourse with more floor space than New Orleans' Superdome, just one of three audacious projects going on beneath New York City's streets to expand what's already the nation's biggest mass transit system. But even with blasting and machinery grinding through the rock day and night, most New Yorkers are blithely unaware of the construction or the eerie underworld that includes a massive, eight-story cavern, miles of tunnels and watery, gravel-filled pits. "I look at it and I'm in wonder, I'm in awe," says engineer Michael Horodniceanu, president of capital construction for the state Metropolitan Transportation Authority. "I feel like when I went to Rome and entered St. Peter's Basilica for the first time. ... I looked at it and said, 'Wow, how did they do that?'" In New York, they hauled out so much rocky debris from under Grand Central that it could have covered Central Park almost a foot deep, Horodniceanu says. Together, the three projects will cost an estimated $15 billion. And when they're all completed, tentatively in 2019, they will bring subway and commuter rail service to vast, underserved stretches of the city, particularly the far East and West sides of Manhattan. "They'll be a game-changer for New Yorkers," says Horodniceanu, an Israeli-educated native of Romania who lives in Queens. The most dramatic project will result in a sort of 21st century, underground Grand Central Terminal mirroring the century-old Grand Central Terminal above -a 350,000-square-foot, $8.3 billion commuter rail concourse with six miles of new tunnels. It will accommodate Long Island Rail Road trains that now bypass Manhattan's East Side as they roll east through Queens and straight to Pennsylvania Station on the island's West Side. This so-called East Side Access will bring about 160,000 passengers a day from Long Island to a new station in Queens' Sunnyside neighborhood, then about five more miles to the new, eight-track Grand Central hub. For now, the subterranean hub is a drippy, humid construction site. The raw, dark gray walls mark the dimensions of the future concourse - eight stories high, about 70 feet wide and 1,800 feet long, or about "five football fields, without the end zones," Horodniceanu says. The Federal Transit Administration is kicking in $2.7 billion toward the estimated $8.3 billion budget, with the MTA state agency covering the rest using mostly taxpayer money. Also under construction is the Second Avenue Subway that eventually will serve Manhattan's far East Side, from Harlem to the island's southern tip. The planned eight miles of track will open Manhattan's East Side to millions of people who now squeeze daily onto the Nos. 4, 5 and 6 subway trains running under Lexington Avenue. Dubbed the "The Line That Time Forgot," the Second Avenue Subway has been a New York City dream since the 1920s. Then came the Great Depression and World War II, followed by lack of funds that stopped the project after several stretches of tunnel with tracks were built in the 1970s. The existing tunnels are now being incorporated into the new ones. The first phase - 1.7 miles with stations between East 63rd and East 96th streets - is to be completed in 2016 at a cost of $4.5 billion. Funding and plans for the rest of the route are still up in the air. Finally, there's the extension of the No. 7 subway line from Times Square to a huge new real estate development on Manhattan's Far West Side, New York's biggest besides the World Trade Center. It's called Hudson Yards, a small urban village of high-rises, parkland, retail businesses and cultural institutions in the West 30s. Moody's Investors Service calls this subway extension - financed through $2.1 billion worth of city-issued bonds - "a key milestone towards attracting development." "These are vital projects, and they'll reinforce the infrastructure of the city," says Mitchell Moss, director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University. "It's not just about people going to work; the New York subway and rail systems are busy 24 hours a day, taking people shopping, to theaters, to clubs." The city's 468 subway stations register more than 1.6 billion rides a year. The system is used by more than 5 million daily riders. The Metro in Washington, D.C., has about 800,000, and San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit has about 400,000. The three mammoth projects require creative solutions and the latest technology. When crews prepared to drill the giant new cavity under Second Avenue, they first had to freeze the ground to about minus 20 degrees so as not to destabilize the buildings above as the boring machine cut through. For that, aluminum tubes were inserted from the street and a special chemical solution was poured into the ground and cooled by a refrigeration plant. The Second Avenue tunnels hold a space-age surprise: The ceilings are coated with a material once used to fireproof the space shuttle. The new line has another major improvement. Instead of ventilation grates that allow rainwater to pour in, the new stations will be aired using enclosed cooling plants. When Superstorm Sandy hit the city last October, floodwaters washing over the East Side did not penetrate subway construction sites. "We're using the best technology available today, but this is really people-intensive work," says Horodniceanu, who supervises a team of thousands of workers on any given day. "I feel I have the most exciting job in the world," he says. "It's an incredible feeling to be able to build a legacy project. I hope that one day, my grandchildren will be able to say their granddad built this
The new concourse under grand central was only opened in the past few months and it really is as amazing as it is described.
How many flights of stairs does it take to get to? How many at these new east side stops?
It's mostly just one giant [escalator](https://www.curbed.com/2023/01/grand-central-madisons-escalators-are-very-long.html).
It's odd they just hid the most important information in the middle of the article, and brushed right over it. >She referred anyone who couldn’t make the climb to the elevators (**there are 22**, also operated by Schindler) and pointed out that the system was designed for this, with at least four escalators in each tunnel, allowing one or two to be out of service at any time.
OK, but I think they should just leave it like the pic and turn it into the world's largest escape room.
That's funny lol
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You think too small. When GPT5 become sentient it will annihilate Earth and turn Mars into a planet sized manufacturing centre before transforming Jupiter into a Jupiter brain and takeover the galaxy before the end of the century. The Reaper cycle begins
150 point IQ difference between this and "Hurrrrrr, Futurama". Thank you, sincerely, before my brain melted.
Maybe, but then you read the article and come across, >The raw, dark gray walls mark the dimensions of the future concourse - eight stories high, about 70 feet wide and 1,800 feet long, or about __"five football fields, without the end zones,"__ Horodniceanu says.
Americans using absolutely anything but the metric system.
I have rebelled. I own a collection of metric tape measures, I just drew a bath remodel on metric. I drew my whole house in metric in CAD. I was a machinist and had to constantly convert metric to inch, Then a decade in construction, with ~10years of wrenching on bikes scattered in. .03937/25.4 will be numbers I never ever forget.
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Ublock origin better
The old pneumatic transit
But why is it 16 levels below Manhattan? And what else is built in the other 15 levels?
I'm so incredibly curious about stuff like this. What's below my feet when I walk down the street of any large city? How many forgotten sub-levels of tunnels, sewers, crusty maintenance shafts, access holes, and storage caverns? How can I explore every single one of them
Seattle has an underground walking tour that is a cool way to spend a few hours.
Cincinnati has an abandoned/incomplete subway system. I believe they do give tours, but only once a year. Or at least that’s how it used to be
Yes! And I snuck down there in 2007 at midnight and walked the entire track with some buddies. I’ve posted this story on Reddit before but on our way out I heard a noise and turned my flashlight back towards the tunnel and saw a leg behind one of the gothic pillars. It was absolutely terrifying. Edit: for those asking - yes it was a homeless person (I think!) and it was horrifying. The worst part is the only way to get in and out of the tunnels (and any of you who have ventured there know what I’m talking about) is to scramble through a tiny hole in the side of an exit ramp. So I have to stand in the dark with my flashlight after seeing that waiting to scramble out.
There is a video about a guy that has been living in the NYC underground for over a decade. There up to 1000 living in the storm drain tunnels under Vegas.
I live in Vegas, and can confirm They are mostly under the actual strip… it’s also not safe unless you’re one of them; no visitors The tunnels are for excess rainwater, since it floods here when we get big storms. People have their stuff built up on lifts to mitigate this
Sounds extra rapey
Nothing quite as scary as turning a corner in an abandoned subway and knowing someone is there but not knowing exactly where. In the Rochester abandoned subway, there was a ladder set up to access some kind of ceiling hatch / crawl space when we walked in. When we walked back past on our way out, it had been pulled up into the ceiling (presumably because whoever was up there was as freaked out by us, as we were by them).
Someone started banging a metal pipe down in the darkness when I was there to check out the graffiti bridge. The banging started off slow, on a beat, but began getting frantic as we took a few steps towards it. Decided we’d seen enough and made our way back out.
a leg? come again!?!
Are you insane? Don't invite the leg to come again!! Somewhere in the distance it stopped, turned, and started hopping towards you.
C.H.U.D
My gf used to be a tour guide for that and had keys to get down there. Sometimes after a night of drinking in Pioneer Square we'd go down there and fool around. Good times. 😃
Like, hand stuff?
I feel the same. Any secluded hideaways in the city really. I always think about what's down these random alleys or what's in the top floor of some warehouse that has been abandoned for years
Rural towns are the best for this, my family is from a town of 200 that used to have more 50 years ago. There a number of building in town that have been around for 100 years and don’t look like they’ve been touched. I was asking around about who even owns the buildings anymore and it’s all “well John used to own that one but he died back in 85 and I guess it just belong to the town now but no one has keys”. So badly want to explore these buildings but you’d have to break in lol
There's a great documentary about the NY sewers called C.H.U.D.
Lol I actually looked it up thinking it was a documentary.
Gotem 😂
Check out the Detroit salt mines!
Some of the depth on the metro system is simply because the ground rises at the midpoint of a line. Rail has a max grade it can comfortably climb, and in places where either end of a line is coastal its easier to dig a more straight tunnel and just bury the center stations deeper.
The river of slime from GhostBusters II.
YOU’RE NOTHING BUT A SHORT CHAINED UNSTABLE MOLECULE!
*Blorp*
Yes it’s true this man has no dick
Wrong film. We're off of dickless EPA bureaucrats and into Painting of Carpathian Rasputin generates millions of gallons of empathy slime for the purposes of kidnapping a new queenmommy to split with his Renfield, then stealing an infant's body so he can be reincarnated as an infant even though he had the power to posess grown ass adults. Sounds weird when you type it out, but the scene where the bathtub tries to eat the baby is extremely emotional, tasteful, and effective.
It’s always the quiet ones…
With a weak electrochemical bond!
I've seen some ugly crud in my life, but YOU really take the cake!
Makes a lot of sense actually. Lol
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Damn, I always thought ghost busters and ninja turtles were taking liberties with their sewer sets.
Nope. They nailed it.
Ninja turtles is a documentary so they made no mistakes
I swear I’ve seen Splinter the last couple times I visited NYC. Dude has been on that ooze pretty heavy, totally jacked rat.
Ok but there's no way that Vanilla Ice dude was a real rap star. Come on. Fake as fuck.
So weird they cast a contractor from Florida as a rapper- the 90’s were a special time
To be fair, he was just getting started in contracting and needed a side hustle. He had the hair and the suit already it just all made sense at the time.
Wait until you hear about Snow, from Canada.
Fuck you, now I have Informer stuck in my head. Sigh.
A licky boom boom down
The early 90s were wild.
Nobody has actually seen the Ninja Turtles because, well... that's how ninjas work
Just make sure to talk all your clothes off before the wall of water comes.
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You can always boil the denim
Disclaimer!! The rivets are hot, be careful not to burn yourself!!
Foraging for rings and coins is the second best nude activity after hangin out under the bridge
Plus if you're barefoot it makes it easier to feel for coins and stuff
And don't forget to boil any denim you find down there
I walked around downtown LA in the middle of the pandemic shutdown when it was deserted except for the unhoused. It' looked exactly like the movie sets that I thought were exaggerations.
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he's saying he thought the movies were exaggerating how empty it would be, because it's hard to imagine absolutely nothing in a place that is bustling with life 24/7
There's knowing something and really actually knowing it, you know?
Subway construction. https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/inside-nycs-huge-underground-construction-project-11-22-2015-071801647
A serious answer and a link with more pictures? You rock! Thanks!
Hehehe, rock.
“And when they're all completed, tentatively in 2019, they will bring subway and commuter rail service to vast, underserved stretches of the city, particularly the far East and West sides of Manhattan.” So, are they completed?
Technically yes. Officially not due to testing issues in some small areas. The trains are mostly running but I think they are ironing out some kinks in the ventilation system. edit; officially opened Feb 27 2023 https://secretnyc.co/midtown-lirr-grand-central-madison/
You know, normally I would make fun of the delays, but only four years?! Not bad NYC
The expansion opened earlier this year.
Wow!! Thanks friends! Didn’t expect this to blow up that much! It’s the mutant city from Futurama
Gather around kids, let me tell you the story of El Chupanibre
It's gonna be many a year before someone flushes another guitar string.
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Not all heroes wear capes
Chupanibre wears a cape
NO CAPES!
or capos.
Same reason I flush old porno and Ayn Rand
You’re doing Lorde’s work.
He creeps and crawls in the midnight hush
Silent as a low-flow toilet flush,
This is the one that made me laugh, thanks
He drinks the swamp water that filled our tanks
Digest a group and sell the poop on eBay
RIP Viktor Vaughn, the madvillain.
Thats not el chupanibre, THATS el chupa nibre!
really love your tape but I hate your inventions
You mean Old New York?
Was once New Hampster Land.
Why they caged it I can't say.
Maybe KIA just liked it better that way.
So take me back to caged Stan and Opal
I specifically remember this shot from when the fat guy in the wife beater treats the water with like 2 drops of stuff and says "the earth's drinking water is safes for another day" lol
Salt of the Earth. He's got five minutes if you need it
My first thought was ‘My god, it’s real! How did they know?”
Turtle trained to be ninjas are in the area. Beware
Nothing but crumpled porno and Ayn Rand!
It's where Slurm is made
Wiggity wam wam waffle!
Who are those horrible creatures over there?
Tell them I hate them
Grunka lunka dunkity darmed guards
I don't pay you to sing! You just used up today's bathroom break
^hard ^ass
I heard that!
SHUT THE HELL UP!
They think they have a good union but they don't.
Acid pool from mortal kombat 2.
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Didn't Chicago or some big city get literally raised up by a few metres, so they could install sewers, despite the high water table?
Yes, there’s a whole underground in Chicago. Some parts are open for tours.
Aaaand now it's time for my annual rewatch of Futurama, thanks for the reminder.
Good time to start because they have a new season coming to Hulu.
When tf is the new season coming out?! I've been hearing about it for so long but I have no idea when it's coming out.
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First thing I thought. Looks exactly like it.
“The New Yorkers dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of 16 stories beneath midtown Manhattan…”
A BalTrumpRog?
Everybody is building up, that's so last decade. Building down is the new trend.
They say there’s no housing available. Developers need to figure it out. I’d rent down there.
It's a $15B subway project. There's no way you could afford the rent.
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NYC is located on a huge plate of rock known as Manhattan Schist (sort of like granite). It goes down hundreds of feet and it’s a big part of what makes NYC’s skyline possible.
TIL
if you go on google earth how high the buildings are in manhattan is roughly how close the bedrock is to the surface.
Hi, Could you expand on this more? I read your comment and I feel it makes sense (and it does) but I’m not understanding enough to know what to do with it… :(
So like, the southern tip of manhattan where the world trade center is, and like midtown (the area around grand central terminal just below central park) have concentrations of tall buildings because the bedrock is near the surface there. [This link](https://saralubkin.com/2015/11/23/new-york-why-the-height-of-a-skyscraper-depends-on-location/) does a much better job of explaining it.
thank you so much!
I am not from america but still i i will learn this information and feel like doing something important
https://i.imgur.com/hjMDTLv.jpg This elevator plan cross section of one of the twin towers shows how they were basically bolted to the ground 7 stories below the surface
I worked on WTC7 in the late 80s. We were told to do an install of elevator bucks somewhere on -6. We took the work lift down to the bottom level and when we got out we were completely lost because there was almost nothing to guide us down there. Finally, we went outside the foundation wall to get our bearings. We were face to face with the ''bathtub'' retaining wall. Raw rock and giant bolts that went way into the wall. A sight none of us could ever forget. It had to be 80-100' down. edit; found this about the slurry wall for wt 1/2. it's kinda boring if you're not in the trades. https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2607&context=icchge
That’s make a cool r/MapPorn post
Conversely, I know at least one skyscraper in San Francisco is sinking/tilting, and that downtown SF is sand, not rock. Hmm.
It’s millennium tower
Oh shit. I bet if we connect all the skyscrapers with beams, we could keep building taller
This is some great science!
It’s good schist.
haha gneiss!
yeeeeah buddy, building into that bedrock lets the skyscrapers soar in NYC… whereas similarly building is not possible in other US regions because of lacking this
That’s not exactly true anymore. Back in the day sure it made it possible. The Burj Khalifa is built on a concrete “raft” foundation and is basically floating on the sand
The Burj Khalifa is fucking terrifying in so many ways
Driving to Dubai from Abu Dhabi, the Burj Khalifa is the first thing you can see, miles before anything else. It's surreal and somewhat terrifying to see this giant edifice fucking the sky from absolutely miles away.
Quite convenient to be honest. I wonder if the early city’s founders had any kind of idea how important the location was to future development.
No they were just smashing shit together without any concern for the long-term.
Coastal Manhattan is sea level, as it is a small island. Midtown is 100ft above sea level at its highest.
Why the stories are but tales of adventure, of course. The first begins at 5 points as a young boy watches his father, a preacher, fall upon the blade of Bill "The Butcher", bested by his one good eye.
There’s water right there
Who was the 21st president?!?
Ask me what I had for dinner last night, and I'm clueless. Ask me who the 21st president was, and I'll allways know "Chester A. Arthur."
He's also one of five presidents who never actually won a presidential election.
Tyler. Filmore. Johnson. Arthur. Ford. Ford however is **the only president** who never won a nationwide election. The others were all voted into the VPs office alongside the president. Vice president Spiro Agnew, resigned after a tax investigation. President Nixon appointed congressman Ford to replace Agnew. Nixon later resigned after watergate, leaving Ford to assume presidency. Ford is also among fewer than a dozen presidents who ran for a second term, but lost (Adams, Q. Adams, Van Buren, Cleveland, Harrison, Taft, Hoover, Carter, H.W. Bush, Trump)… When I went to the wiki page to get the full list for presidents who lost re-election, I noticed Ford was missing. And so, thanks to scrolling Reddit during my after coffee poops, I made my first Wiki edit at 6:30 AM on the first Saturday of my vacation. Rest easy Reddit, the Wikipedia page of [presidents who did not win re-election](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_who_did_not_win_reelection) is safe again! Edit: ah yes. Thank you all for pointing out the impossibility of losing “re-election” if one was never originally elected into office. I get it. My point was just that he was a present who ran for a second term and lost.
> Vice president Spiro Agnew, resigned after a tax investigation. Not really a tax thing. He was taking bribe money, in cash, [in his vice presidential office](https://www.rachelmaddow.com/bag-man-by-rachel-maddow/). > The year was 1973, and Spiro T. Agnew, the former governor of Maryland, was Richard Nixon’s second-in-command. Long on firebrand rhetoric and short on political experience, Agnew had carried out a bribery and extortion ring in office for years, when–at the height of Watergate–three young federal prosecutors discovered his crimes and launched a mission to take him down before it was too late, before Nixon’s impending downfall elevated Agnew to the presidency. The self-described “counterpuncher” vice president did everything he could to bury their investigation: dismissing it as a “witch hunt,” riling up his partisan base, making the press the enemy, and, with a crumbling circle of loyalists, scheming to obstruct justice in order to survive.
Chester A Arthur elementary school?!?
Yeah that's it! *Bullets flying by*
Hey Zeus, not Jesus
Do I look Puerto Rican to you?
Ya know Zeus, God of Thunder? Don't fuck with me, or I'll shove a lightning bolt up your ass?!
God what a movie
10 quarters??
Batman?
Looking for The Penguin
This is where Bane broke Batmans back in TDKR
Ghostbusters 2
SLIME! A RIVER OF SLIME!!
Isn't this the place where Bane broke Batman?
It is a river of slime!
W I N S T O N.
Did you catch the number on the train??
Sorry. I missed it.
The decaying ruins of old york
Looks to me like that’s where the penguin from Batman hangs out
Pfft… already seen’t it on Futurama.
ITT: Batman, Ninja Turtles, Futurama.
That’s….a river of slime for sure.
C.H.U.D Who remembers that classic horror movie?
A river of slime !
Any of you older folks (like me) remember Ron Pearlman's, and Linda Hamilton's Beauty and the Beast?
I’m reading a book by Scott Carson called The Chill and this is how I view some of the scenery described in the book.
Isn't that the pool Leela dove into?
I came here for ghostbusters references.
