| The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Architecture of Despair) |  | Author: Margaret Morton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2181136
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10 x 9.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 0300065388
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.569
EAN: 9780300065381
ASIN: 0300065388
Publication Date: November 29, 1995
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This book, the first in a group of three books documenting the lives and living spaces of New York City`s homeless population, is narrated entirely by residents of an underground train tunnel, a community that has been hidden from public view for over twenty years. Margaret Morton combines her photographs with four years of audiotaped oral histories to create a unique archive of extraordinary individuals living in an extraordinary social, political, and economic condition.
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 Interesting book with great photo's November 16, 2002
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
In this book the author goes underground in a train tunnel in New York City where a bunch of homelesss people are living. She interviews and photographs them in an unobstrusive way that is very respectful of them and their situations. It's a pretty disgusting place with rats (dead & alive), garbage, excrement, and no fresh air. It is really amazing how people have built comfortable housing down there with electricity even! They get hot water dripping from the pipes to shower & wash clothes. I liked this book and thought about it for a few days afterwards. The book has a lot of photo's and you'll read it pretty quickly.
 Wow. December 30, 1999
39 out of 49 found this review helpful
I stumbled across this book in my local library and could not put it down. It is said that we are all connected, that we are each others' mirrors. While looking at the photos in this book I realized that I was looking at a side of myself I had never lived. And yet it was a side I was familiar with...Part of me was drawn to it, intoxicated by it, a deep, dark fantasy brought to light. Here are people living out the darkest fears of mankind, boldly and with conviction. It is truly a remarkable book as no judgments are made; the photos speak volumes and any and all judgments are left up to the reader.
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