After being built in the 1930s, the tunnel was quickly phased out of service in preference for automobile transportation. It became a haven for Manhattan's homeless population until 1991 when Amtrak evicted the tunnel and bulldozed the shantytowns.
->"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see." ~Dorothea Lange
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