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04 July 2005

Why do I love sandhogs? How could I not?

post by: puddinghead at: 18:55 | 5 comments

More sandhog pr0n - the transcript of 60 Minutes' "NYC: Way Down Underground".

posted by Smart Dalek 04 July | 19:11

Here's the transcript for PBS' American Experience segment, "New York Underground".

posted by Smart Dalek 04 July | 19:16

You made my day, Smart Dalek. Probably my week. Maybe my year.

posted by puddinghead 04 July | 19:39

City Of Water
Can an intricate and antiquated maze of tunnels continue to sustain New York?
The New Yorker
September 1, 2003

The author accompanys Sandhogs nearly six hundred feet underground. Great article - this is the only version online that I can find.

Payback by Thomas Kelly is a good novel about Sandhogs (The movie Payback is not based on this novel).

posted by mlis 04 July | 23:12

And here I thought you said sandbags.

posted by dreamsign 05 July | 00:02

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