PDF-(BOOK)-The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City

Thousands of people live in the subway railroad and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City This book is about them the socalled mole people living alone and in communities in the frescoed waiting rooms of longforgotten subway tunnels and in pickaxed compartments below busway platforms It is about how and why people move underground who they are and what they have to say about their lives and the treacherous topside world theyve left behind There are even the voices of young children taken down to the tunnels by parents who are determined to keep their families together although as one tunnel dweller explains once you go down there you cant be a child anymore Though they maintain an existence hidden from the world aboveground tunnel dwellers form a large and growing sector of the homeless population They are a diverse group and they choose to live underground for many reasonssome rejecting society and its values others reaffirming those values in what they view as purer terms and still others seeking shelter from the harsh conditions on the streets Their enemies include government agencies and homeless organizations as well as wandering crack addicts and marauding gangs In communities underground however many homeless people find not only a place but also an identity On these pages Jennifer Toth visits underground New York with various straighttalking guides from outreach workers and transit police to vetern tunnel dwellers graffiti artists and even the mayor of a large highly structured community several levels down In addition to chilling and poignant firsthand accounts of tunnel life she describes the fascinating and labryrinthine physical world beneath the city and discusses the literary allusions and historical points of view that prejudice our culture against those who go underground Toth has gained unprecedented access to a strange and frightening world but The Mole People is not a daredevil jo. cunyedu Education and training Postdoctoral Fellow Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Universi ty of California Berkeley Palaeoclimate modeling and amphibian phylogeography in the Brazi lian Atlantic rainforest and the Australian Wet Tropics Advisor Craig ?. 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