Spelunking In Brooklyn!

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Originally uploaded by Wootinie

There's a tunnel below Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, and every so often, you can take a tour of it. This summer, we found out about it in time and made a point of doing some spelunking in the middle of downtown Brooklyn. You enter the tunnel through a manhole located in the middle of Atlantic Avenue (they block off the traffic for you). There's a narrow tunnel that takes you to an opening where they've piled up dirt and made rickety wooden stairs (which is why you sign a waiver beforehand!) so you don't have to climb down a rusty chain ladder like they did when they discovered the tunnel back in 1980. It was built back in the late 1800s and went through a lot of drama before being sealed up by a politician who claimed it had been destroyed. There was a lot of information to absorb, so obviously it didn't all sink in. But they've got a website with more information and better pictures than the ones I put up on my flickr page... (Flash made everything too bright, and I didn't have a tripod, so all my natural-lit pictures came out dark and blurry...)