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Tunnel People
''Tunnel People'' is an anthropological-journalistic account describing an underground homeless community in New York. It is written by war photographer and anthropologist Teun Voeten and was published by the Oakland based independent publishing house PM Press in 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8460457-tunnel-people )〕
== Background ==
In late 1980s and early 1990s New York, thousands of the homeless roamed the streets. Most slept on the streets or in shelters, but a small group of them went underground and took refuge in the huge system of subway and train tunnels. One of the biggest and most accessible groups of these homeless people lived in part of the Amtrak tunnel, which runs for 50 blocks under Manhattan’s Riverside Park. Over time the tunnel became home to some 75 people who lived scattered in small groups in self made shacks, in empty maintenance bunkers, or in recesses and caves along the tunnel wall. Graffiti artists used the blank cement spaces as canvases for their work and named it the Freedom Tunnel.
Several journalists wrote articles and made documentaries about tunnel life and the individuals living there. However, few of the journalists spent much time underground and some even produced stories, which lacked the necessary intimate knowledge of their subjects to be completely accurate.
The tunnel people were evicted in 1996, but Amtrak and homeless organizations were able, with support from the federal government, to develop a plan that would offer them alternative housing. Journalists who had established relations of trust with the tunnel people, such as Marc Singer, Margaret Morton and the author helped the tunnel people through the administrative process. Some succeeded in starting new lives above ground. Currently, the original tunnel is sealed off and all inhabitable structures are pulled down and destroyed. Nevertheless, a few individuals still live underground, but the city appears to tolerate them as long as they do not erect permanent structures.
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