By Katarina Hybenova
Have you ever wondered what the sewers underneath Knickerbocker Avenue look like? These guys, Steve and Andrew wondered too. So they went down to check them out and they made this video. In the 1880s, Bushwick was the nation’s capital for breweries and that made for a lot of wastewater. A couple of miles of extension sewer were built underneath Knickerbocker Avenue to bring the wastewater directly to the East River.
Urban historian Steve Duncan and a filmmaker Andrew Wonder teamed up to create this amazing guerilla city and urban exploration project called Undercity. Steve describes this fascinating project on their website:
“Beneath New York City lies a vast network of abandoned tunnels, caverns, nooks and crannies that the average joe will never see,” Gothamist reports today.
If you want to follow more footage form under the city by Steve and Andrew, you should check out My BlockNYC, which is an interactive mapping website that captures and presents personal video accounts of the life and culture of New York City. These guys are creating “an intimate, evolving, and complete portrait of this great city”. Users upload videos geographically, building the first fully interactive video map of New York City.
Thanks to Gaia Flicori from My Block NYC for an excellent tip.
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About Katarina Hybenova
Founder of Bushwick Daily. She writes, takes photos, and sometimes video. Born and raised in Slovakia, she has studied in Prague, Leuven and New York, traveled the world only to find home in Bushwick or should we say Ridgewood :) She is interested in yoga, running, human & cat friends.
Aeeeeck that looks groce
oh well, let’s be happy the internet doesn’t transport smells too
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