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Synopsis
Examines the lives of some of New York City's homeless citizens, who have set up a unique community in an Amtrak tunnel under the West Side Highway
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One of the oldest surviving homeless communities in New York City has been hidden from public view in an underground train tunnel since the 1970s. Residents dwell in continual darkness along the two-and-a-half mile stretch, which is penetrated only by shafts of light angling through air vents. The residents who have been there longest live alongside the tracks in cinder block bunkers originally used by railroad personnel. Other residents are hidden high above the tracks in recessed niches that are accessible only by climbing. More recent tunnel dwellers have built freestanding structures in the dark alcoves of the tunnel or perched themselves on concrete ledges. This work, the first in a group of three books documenting the lives and living spaces of New York City's homeless population, is narrated entirely by tunnel residents. Margaret Morton's photographs combine with four years of audiotaped oral histories to create an archive of individuals living in an extraordinary social, political and economic condition.
About the Author
Margaret Morton is associate professor of art at The Cooper Union.
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0300065590
- ISBN 13 9780300065596
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages158
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