Photo by Vetustense Photorogue.
November 21, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 51 Degrees.
Notices:
A free poetry slam at Lincoln Center, and a Thanksgiving balloon inflation fair are on our calendar.
The Natural History Museum’s Margaret Mead Film Festival starts on November 29.
The San Diego Jewish Academy (SJDA) raised more than $11,000 in a massive garage sale for Hurricane Sandy victims, and local assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal helped get the money to the Met Council, to help with recovery. There was also one of those novelty checks involved. WE have a new list of volunteer opportunities here.
News:
Madonna put her 6,000 square foot co-op apartment at Central Park West and 64th Street on the market for $23.5 million this week. “It contains more than 6,000 square feet of space and features huge windows with views of the Park. The pad has Juliet balconies, five wood-burning fireplaces, four bedroom wings, eight baths and a chef’s eat-in kitchen.” (NY Post)
An imposter pretending to work for Extell gained access to info on buyers at the Rushmore on Riverside Boulevard. Authorities are investigating. (The Real Deal)
A subway tunnel called the Freedom Tunnel running under the Upper West Side from around 70th Street to 122nd Street was abandoned for more than 60 years and closed to people decades ago. But a few people still travel down to learn its secrets. “A reopening of the tracks in the 1990s, however, mandated a mass eviction, and today the dungeon-like asylum is illegal to enter since the train tracks are active, frequented only by graffiti artists and the occasional urban explorer.” (BBC)
Candle Cafe West offers vegetarian Thanksgiving dinners. (Columbia Spectator)
Freedon Tunnel: Would love to see that!
I remember in the mid 60’s a subway entrance on 95th & Central Park West. It was walled off, though I think you can still see some of the outlines of it on the wall at the end of the station. With such crowding in the morning maybe the MTA would consider opening it up again.
I’m not getting this tunnel thing. This is merely the old Penn Central tracks that went downtown and which is now the High Line. That would mean it’s not a subway tunnel and never was. You can still see the entrances around 86th Street and in other places up north. And the vents of course are located in Riverside Park as you walk from 79th Street north, When I was a kid it was easy to get access to the tracks, and we had a lot of fun on them. The occasional train coming thru made it even more interesting.
Margaret Morton even did a book about this…
The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Architecture of Despair) Ms. Margaret Morton
And it was never called the Freedom Tunnel until Chris Page decided to turn it into art. We used to call it Greenies, don’t know why.
I guess this is what happens when the source is another country…