Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does the company like to talk about the possibility of rupturing the Catskill Aqueduct--which supplies about 40 per cent of New York City's water--as it blasts its tunnel through the mountain. When it does, its statements are couched in such language as "we have every expectation" that reports denying that such damage could occur are correct. The City of New York is not as confident, and has gone to court to support its view...
...utility denied last month that any of these pending lawsuits would delay its projected construction start, and its denial proved correct: Construction crews arrived at the mountain a few weeks ago, and began clearing the brush before beginning blasting the tunnel. Asked whether the utility has any reservations about starting before the litigation is complete, Con Ed denies that it does; "We have every expectation that we will win," the spokesmen say. And in the event that an adverse decision halts the project? "We have every expectation," the spokesmen repeat, "that we will win." And if not, they seem...
...issue became one of the major demands of the 1969 Strike, and students came into the neighborhood to knock on doors and join forces with the tenants. RTH began, committees were established, promises were made, plans drawn up. Three weeks ago, light appeared at the end of the tunnel--the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency (MHFA), at the tenants' request, voted to commit almost $38 million for the construction of a mixed-income housing development on Harvard-owned land in the neighborhood...
...train enters a tunnel as it crosses under the Hudson River. In a minute it has halted in Penn Station, where crowds of people swirl on the platform, rushing to get a seat. The loudspeaker announces, "The Southern Crescent leaving in ten minutes for points north...New Haven... Providence...Boston." A uniformed porter carries the heavy suitcase of a tall, slender woman who wears sunglasses despite the dimness of the platform...
Through another tunnel and into the light of Brooklyn, where the Ronzoni factory advertises its macaroni, spaghetti, and egg noodles. Tenement after tenement after tenement appear, endless duplicates of shambling brick, cracked windows, and beaten roofs. Behind, the buildings of Manhattan's East Side stand fiercely on the edge of the island, presenting a glittering metallic wall. A few blocks away, a teenage girl with red-painted finger nails picks up a laundry basket in the greasy kitchen of her small home. She turns down the light of the hamburgers crackling on the stove and goes out onto the back...