Found 2 collections related to Tunnels -- New York (State) -- New York

George Sears Greene (1801-1899) was a Union officer in the Civil War, a founder of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Architects, and was responsible for numerous railroads and aqueduct construction projects. These papers relate to a proposed tunnel "for carriage and footways" that would have extended from Manhattan's 7th Avenue under the Harlem River to Morrisania, the Bronx less

Lithograph and accompanying letter (18 August 1874) of Jerome Wenmaekers explaining plans for a proposed system of quays, docks, railway, and vehicular tunnels running underneath the Hudson River and East River in New York. Titled by Wenmaekers "Preliminary project: The future of New York through the system of submarine building invented by Jerome Wenmaekers." less