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551:-like solemnity and darkness, now all closed and filled up, and soon to be utterly forgotten, with all its reminiscences; however, there will, for a few years yet be many dear ones, to not a few Brooklynites, New Yorkers, and promiscuous crowds besides. For it was here you started to go down the island, in summer. For years, it was confidently counted on that this spot, and the railroad of which it was the terminus, were going to prove the permanent seat of business and wealth that belong to such enterprises. But its glory, after enduring in great splendor for a season, has now vanished—at least its Long Island Railroad glory has. The tunnel: dark as the grave, cold, damp, and silent. How beautiful look earth and heaven again, as we emerge from the gloom! It might not be unprofitable, now and then, to send us mortals—the dissatisfied ones, at least, and that's a large proportion—into some tunnel of several days' journey. We'd perhaps grumble less, afterward, at God's handiwork. 1871: 190: 215: 1386: 240: 637: 623: 2377: 1392: 173: 2397: 45: 2387: 1878: 581:(born Robert Stephen Turin; October 6, 1959 – August 21, 2021), who entered from a manhole he located at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, crawled a distance of 70 feet (21 m) underground through a filled-in section of tunnel less than two feet (0.61 m) high, and located the bulkhead wall that sealed off the main portion of the tunnel. With the assistance of a 247: 222: 197: 559:
suspected German terrorists were making bombs in the tunnel, and broke through the roof of the tunnel with jackhammers. They found nothing, installed an electric light, and resealed it. In the 1920s, it was rumored to be used for both mushroom growing and bootleg whiskey stills, even though there was
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granted the B&J permission to operate its steam locomotives on Atlantic Street west of Fifth Avenue (then Parmentier's Garden/Gowanus Lane), all the way to Brooklyn's South Ferry (the present location of Brooklyn's Pier 7). Prior to the cut being built, the LIRR's western terminus was Atlantic
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to determine its structural strength, but there is no evidence of this. A few years later, it was once again rumored to have been opened, this time by the FBI, in an unsuccessful search for spies; however, there is no evidence of this. During the late 1950s, it was sought by two rail historians,
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in Manhattan that are older, but were used by horse-drawn carriages rather than true railways. A tunnel stretching 596 feet (182 m) was completed through Prospect Hill, one of the highest points on the East Side of Manhattan, between 92nd and 95th Streets, in 1837. In addition, the
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Street at Clinton Street. Train cars were hauled by teams of horses along Atlantic Street from Clinton Street to Parmentier's Garden, where steam locomotives were attached. While the cut was being built, the railroad operated to a temporary terminal at Pacific Street and Henry Street.
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Line was completed through Connecticut, providing a direct, faster rail connection from New York City to Boston. The Cobble Hill Tunnel and the Long Island Railroad remained the primary means of access to most of central Long Island from Manhattan and New York City.
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engineering crew, he then broke through the massive concrete bulkhead wall, which is several feet thick. Diamond thereby opened access to the main portion of the tunnel, and began to popularize the tunnel as an antiquity. He led tours of its interior for his
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unsuccessfully attempted to enter the tunnel, in order to look for the body of a hoodlum supposedly buried there. In 1941, it was rumored to have been inspected by the federal
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beneath a city street in North America that was fully devoted to rail. It is also deemed the oldest subway tunnel in the world by the
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no access into the main portion of the tunnel. It became an object of local folklore and legend. In 1936, the
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was built as an open cut around 1836, roofed over around the 1850s, and is now in use for automobile traffic.
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at the foot of Atlantic Street (later Atlantic Avenue), where passengers could catch ferries to
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Having fallen from public notice, the tunnel was rediscovered in 1980 by then 20-year-old
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George Horn and Martin Schachne, but they did not gain access to the tunnel itself.
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terminated his contract, citing safety concerns. The tunnel has been listed on the
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The Cobble Hill Tunnel was part of the first rail link between New York City and
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Tunnel vision: how an obsessed explorer found and lost the world's oldest subway
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Kings County, New York
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ran a segment ("New York's Secret Societies") on the tunnel in 2008.
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The ends of the tunnel were sealed in the fall of 1861. The similar
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The old tunnel, that used to lie there under ground, a passage of
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voted to ban railroad locomotives from within the limits of the
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between 33rd and 40th Streets in Manhattan, was opened in 1834.
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Cobble Hill Tunnel is located in New York City
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40°41′25.6″N 73°59′42.5″W / 40.690444°N 73.995139°W / 40.690444; -73.995139
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