This morning I went up to 92nd and 2nd Avenue, where, eighty feet below the street, the Second Avenue Subway is being built. This was for a press event celebrating the beginning of drilling on the tunnels that will connect the present site with the other lines down by 63rd Street. I was really struck by the scale of everything: the boring machine, with all of its attached conveyor belts, must of ran at least three city blocks, and being down at the trackbed felt like being in an enormous cathedral buried underground.
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05/14/2010
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awesome!!
Posted by: nate k | 05/15/2010 at 03:28 AM
super industrial picture.GREAT
Posted by: matt | 05/19/2010 at 12:52 PM
Wow, Amazing! I love seeing "behind-the-scenes" work liket this.
Also, I really dig you site!
Posted by: Damian | 05/19/2010 at 03:38 PM
Plus, I love seeing how many errors I can make in one post. Oof.
Posted by: Damian | 05/19/2010 at 03:40 PM
Wow - this is sick!
Posted by: mrpatrick | 05/21/2010 at 03:56 PM
i've seen several times this immage in my dreams.
Now I know that place does really exists.
Thank you.
Riccardo
Venice, Italy.
Posted by: riccardo | 05/22/2010 at 06:33 PM
Epic, love it.
Posted by: Jamblichus | 05/23/2010 at 05:48 AM
This looks like a scene from a Transformers movie or some other science fiction film. It's actually very cool to realize that this is a real construction project and that you were there to document the scene.
Posted by: Alexa | 05/23/2010 at 11:39 PM
Your works give me a lot of inspiration.Im fun of industrial pictures too.
Posted by: mark | 05/28/2010 at 04:38 AM
Great image! I love the light and the sense of being there. I agree that it does feel like its a movie set. There is so much going on in the image that I don't know what I'm looking at but it does capture me!
Posted by: Theof | 05/30/2010 at 04:45 AM
Do you use any enhancement on this pic or this is the actual raw shot?
i love it! there's a deep feeling when you look at it.. very awesome.
Posted by: Erwin Tandoc | 06/09/2010 at 01:48 AM
Nice shot!
Posted by: Max | 06/10/2010 at 09:25 PM
We need more updates!
Posted by: Chris | 06/11/2010 at 10:50 AM