Video: Diving Into Surprisingly Pretty Sewer Tunnels Beneath Bushwick

Why does no one ever seem to know where Bushwick is?

Hey, Garth! This means you. Look at the map attached to the dude's video, and the locator at the beginning of it. He goes into the manhole at Kent Avenue in South Willyburg. You know that street with the dedicated bike lanes, where you can work up some speed before dodging Hassid baby carriages on your fixie? Yeah, that one.

But anyway, he's not in Bushwick. Or really even close to it. At least two miles away, by my count. He is simply talking about tunnels that run FROM Bushwick to the East River, which is a lot closer to where he is.

Wes Anderson look-a-like.

Wonder what the environmental footprint of those sewers was?  Obama012.

I watched enough to learn that he doesn't come from here. 

He really needs to go back to Ohio.  

I know, I know, it's getting a little repetitive.  It's just that a lot of people really need to go back to Ohio.

The mid-westerners can be annoying, but the fact is that New York City probably would not have become the country's biggest city if it had not been for the Midwest.  Are you familiar with the story of the Erie Canal?  Prior to the Erie Canal,  Boston, New York, Philly and Baltimore were all about the same size population wise.  Had the Erie Canal not been built, Philly would probably have beaten out NYC as the biggest American City. 

When the the Erie Canal was built, there were no such things as planes, trains and automobiles.  There was no practical way to get over the Appalachians to the natural resources of the Midwest.  The Canal connected the Midwest with NYC.  The small villages of  Toledo, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago became big cities.  NYC became the home port for the Midwest.  Goods from New York, New Jersey, the American eastern seaboard, Europe and South America flowed into the Port of New York and to the Midwest.  The products  of the Midwest made the reverse trip.  NYC took its cut both ways.  Why do you think it's called The Empire State?

No, the hard working immigrants that arrive from other countries by boat is what made NYC great.  The canal was built so you could sell your stuff to New Yorkers.  Now you just use Etsy.  Beleive me, if everyone from Ohio went home no one would miss them except the landlords in Brooklyn

Like you even know where the hell Ohio is.  I like NYC, but I swear to god, you people are the most provincial bunch of whiners I've ever seen.

Thats because NY is the center of the universe. Everyone else just does it wrong and we are there to point this out.

Then as now, Bushwick Sewers Built for Beer Water.

"freeze there buddy -whatcha doing with the crowbar?"
"um,...exploring?"

/ GUY CRAWLS // /// ALL DAY // ///

Crawling around in sewers is incredibly dangerous unless you are trained to do it. 

BTW, those sewers were all built with muscle power.  The men who worked construction back in those days had difficult short lives and they were paid very little.  Next time you go past a cemetery say, "Thank you."

Dead people can't hear. Silly.

Dead people can't hear. Silly.

The undead can hear..........they can type as well.

Well played.

Pretty brave (or insane) to go in there without a wetsuit, Tyvek suit, or something that covers most of your body.

FUCKING YUPPIE HIPSTER. IM SO MAD.

Because he's white, in Brooklyn and wearing flannel? Not once did he mention his 401K or the fact that the Pains were so much better before they had that sellout Flood overproduce their shit.

Well Yah!
You sir are a hipster.  First off you are defending them, you have the ironic bad facial hair, you have a non-job and want to be "artist" and are interested in "urban archaeologists / photographers"  When , exactly, did you arrive from the Midwest?  How much is your monthly parental gentrification allowance?  Why do you need a $3,700 MacBook pro to post on Gothamist?  When riding you bike why don't you stop at read lights? Name 3 bands I never heard of and why even you will not be listining to them in a week?

Actually he mentioned one band, not three.  Secondly a MacBook Pro goes for about 1/3 if the price you listed.  And lastly, NYC has always been a city of immigrants and people who didn't grow up here so you can stop pretending that people moving in and out is something new.

$3,648 for a loaded macbook pro
http://store.apple.com/us/conf... 
Start here, upgrade the processor, 8gb ram, add apple care. This is before taxes

I asked him him to NAME 3 bands I never heard of and lastly if all there are good immigrants and bad immigrants.  Midwest transplants are bad ones.

"NYC has always been a city of immigrants"

Yeah from other countries, not the midwest. or are you calling transplants from the midwest, immigrants? Do you know the definition of immigrant?

Here let me help you:  
a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence.

Unless the midwest is another country, you're an idiot. Now go back to your midwestern suburb.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ! Beef . * Grabs The Popcorn .*

New York born and raised.

Also you should look into your price estimate – you could be missing out on an excellent computing experience.

Start here, load it up, add AppleCare before taxes it's over $3,700.
http://store.apple.com/us/conf... 

I like Macs just fine.  I just don't like paying 2x as much for a similarly configured computer.  2x is about right.  Got to Dell, look at there XPS, load it up, under $2,000 with the same processor, disk, memory, warrenty and graphics.  Twice as much.  For what?  design?

Firstly you're definitely paying more for the aesthetic. It's a well designed piece of machinery in a hollowed out block of aluminum. You can get some nice JBL speakers for a fraction of the price of B&O, but the aesthetic and construction is different.

Second, while Windows 8 is shaping up to be a decent OS, MacOS has been far more stable than Windows since OS X was released. On top of sheer stability (i've never had a .dll go missing all of a sudden...) you get virtual virus-proofing, since the relatively minuscule market-share doesn't warrant such scripts to be written. Also, certain basic system-cleaning tasks have been automated (no defragging means it takes far longer for my beast to slow to a crawl).
And back to aesthetic, the UI and UX are extremely thoughtfully crafted to look and feel great.

The other thing to consider is that while Microsoft is a software company catering to thousands of hardware configurations, Apple is a computer company who tailors their software to a known, short list of possible setups. As such it inherently runs smoother.

All in all, it's a matter of preference and I'm sure your machine is brilliant and smooth-running and gets the job done well. I happen to prefer a certain aesthetic, both visually and experientially and my $1000 13"er with a 2.4ghz dual core processor, 4gb ram and LED display satisfy my computational needs flawlessly (design, animation and coding).

They don't have 401Ks so much, that would imply gainful employment. 

Trust funds more likely.

As does "yuppie" All in all it's an oxymoron.

As does "yuppie" All in all it's an oxymoron.

my machine that detects people's sarcasm detector is broken.

The Thames tunnel, which pioneered the tunnel shield, was completed 40 years prior..

Yeah, but it's in England... Who cares about England?