I wonder how many other hotels, etc., had private access tunnels like this:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170417-a-secret-tunnel-to-new-yorks-best-view
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170417-a-secret-tunnel-to-new-yorks-best-view
I would imagine there are more than a few (Waldorf Astoria and Macy’s come to mind)…My old hometown of Cincinnati had connections to the subway that never was and Chicago’s merchants railway come to mind as well.
Chicago Tunnel Company. 2 ft gauge freight hauler.
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I’m not sure if it’s quite the same but the Royal York has a direct connection under the street to Toronto Union Station.
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I’m not sure if it’s quite the same but the Royal York has a direct connection under the street to Toronto Union Station.
Not sure if they would count, but in the days when Large cities had multiple rail terminals; some cities had terminals that allowed the transfer of freight and baggage between those terminals via tunnel networks…I recall a trip that a number of us ( Marines, on leave, going home) were offered a move from one Atlanta station to another ( Boarding Frisco for points west). We went via those ubiquitous Railway Express carts, and bagage tug. The Conductor of the inbound train was wanting to make sure we boarded our connection and got out of town… He had given us a secure ride (locked the door!) in our own coach from Wilmington,N.C. I think,I remember we were in a tunnel in Atlanta(?)[:-^]
The White house has underground access tunnels as well. One I know about goes to the Treasury Building next door. There is another that crosses the street and I think goes into the old Executive Office building. GM’s former World HQ on Grand Blvd in Detroit also had tunnels radiating out in several directions. Some publically used others not. Usually the tunnels were built for steam line access then expanded. Sometimes as in the case of GM and the White House to have an extra secure entrance and exit point.
There are two hotels, THE NEW YORKER, A WYNDHAM at 481 8th Ave, New York, NY 10001 and the NEW YORKER HOTEL. The article is about the first. I wanted to see where it was. I went to Google Maps and entered NEW YORKER HOTEL. It showed me one at 240 E 38th St, New York, NY by 2nd Ave. This confused me because the distance was 1.3 miles between them. I reviewed the diagram @ 0.16 sec in the video and then went back to Google maps and found the correct one. I had stayed at the HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA in the 60’s and it was and is across 7th Ave from Penn Station and it had a direct under street (7th Ave) passage to the station.
You must be from Illinois. [;)]
We’re talking about the New Yorker at 34th and 8th that the Moonies bought in the mid-Seventies. I believe for the past couple of years it has operated as a Wyndham hotel.
Any idea about the place Google maps shows at 240 E 38th St? It didn’t have any tel # nor web listed.
I can’t tell what it is from the Bing map. It is, to me, some strange structure which is certainly not any kind of hotel that I have ever seen. Is it, perhaps, the Bottlenose Wine Company building, which seems to open off 2nd Avenue?
There is a connection between the Montreal station and the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. I don’t remember if it is exactly a tunnel, but there are many interconnected pedestrian tunnels under Montreal that are lined with shops.
1967 New York Telephone Co. building, later Verizon, once full of wires and stuff, now a branch of NYU Langone Medical Center.
For the 1944 Democratic convension in Chicago a tunnel was built from Midway airport to a Henry Ford auto plant. Don’t know any specifics.
In the Montreal Central Station, you take an elevator up to the lobby of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel–it is built over part, at least, of the station. If you don’t want the hotel restaurant fare, you have the choice of several places in the station.
In Halifax, you walk, slightly uphill as I recall, from the station into the Nova Scotian Hotel lobby (in the same bulding).
There are two hotels, THE NEW YORKER, A WYNDHAM at 481 8th Ave, New York, NY 10001 and the NEW YORKER HOTEL. The article is about the first. I wanted to see where it was. I went to Google Maps and entered NEW YORKER HOTEL. It showed me one at 240 E 38th St, New York, NY by 2nd Ave. This confused me because the distance was 1.3 miles between them. I reviewed the diagram @ 0.16 sec in the video and then went back to Google maps and found the correct one. I had stayed at the HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA in the 60’s and it was and is across 7th Ave from Penn Station and it had a direct under street (7th Ave) passage to the station.
There’s a Yuge difference between these two famous old New York Hotels.
The Hotel Pennsylvania is a pre World War I hotel (I think), once famous as the home for Glenn Miller a
With all due respects, I’m a bit skeptical of this tunnel for a few reasons. The Ford defense plant in question is now the Ford City shopping center at about 76th and Cicero. The old south terminal at Midway (demolished around 1980) was at 63rd and Cicero. Such a tunnel would have been at least a mile in length and would have had to pass under Clearing Yard, making it a major project. Wartime restrictions would have made it difficult to impossible to obtain manpower and materiel for such a project.
Understand you being skeptical but check this link. One correction tunnel was completed for 1944 convention but was started in 1928.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Tunnel+from+MDW+to+ford+plant&src=IE-SearchBox&FORM=IESR02&pc=EUPP_UE04