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Tunneling Below Second Avenue - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • This past spring, between 69th Street and 72nd Street on Second Avenue, cages descended every eight hours, five days a week, lowering roughly 50 men in neon vests and hard hats into a deep hole. Overhead, fluorescent bulbs provided a noonish light and yellow ventilation tubes undulated. A cool, roaring wind filled the void and carried the intense aroma of Emulex explosives, an ammonialike, Fourth of July smell. Men with tripods surveyed; men with blowtorches welded; men guiding hoses poured concrete (men outnumber women 100 to 1). They took brief lunch breaks and relieved themselves hastily where and when they could.
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    The NY Times discusses the tunneling of a new subway system under Second Avenue.
Alexander Read

Coney Island Recreation - 1 views

http://www.coneyislandfunguide.com/Rides-And-Attractions.htm

DNW NewYork ConeyIsland attractions recreation social theme parks

Paul Borkan

Forest Hills - Neighborhood Profile of Forest Hills, Queens, New York - 0 views

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    "Forest Hills, a neighborhood in central Queens, comes in three parts. Beautiful Forest Hills Gardens, built as a planned garden city community starting in 1909, still the most exclusive address in Queens; Higher density housing, apartments, co-ops and condos, along and on the north side of Queens Boulevard; and Central Queens-style single- and multi-family homes, developed in the 1920s through 1940s, primarily in the area west and south of Forest Hills Gardens."
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