Tue 19 Aug 2008
LilSubwayCrybaby Walks Among the Mole People
Posted by TJ under LilSubwayCryBaby
As is often the case when we read the LilSubwayCrybaby blog, we have no idea if Lil is jerking our chain, or actually living among the so-called Mole People several feet under Manhattan.
She writes:
Yes, there is an entire population that lives underground, literally underground in Manhattan. At first, I thought it would be easy to find these people. I would simply slip into a subway tunnel and walk around until someone tried to stab me. Not so easy. I backpacked for a good three days before finding my first entrance. I later learned there are only four entrances into the real underground in the entire city and this is the reason it has remained to secluded.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
After working for NYCTA back in 94′-98′ I can pretty emphatically state that after many subteranean adventures I never found “one of four entrances” nor have I ever heard of such a thing other than in the book the “mole people” which has questionable provenance. Further, the NYCT subway is well documented especially both in their official archives at at the fansite http://www.nycsubway.org that its hard to believe those statements. I certainly ran into homeless in the tubes, abandoned stations, seldom used or closed areas that were accessible to homeless but never outright “cities”. The only “four” entrances to this “world” may be the access points for the portions of the 2nd ave subway that were build years ago. I’ve been down those but no one lives there since the hatches are wired for security. I’ll have to check out the “lilsubwaycrybaby” site
August 19th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
I had always thought that the mole people didn’t live in the subway tunnels, they lived in Amtrack-owned rail tunnels near Union station.
August 20th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
There are different people than the mole people that live underground in NYC.
August 23rd, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Why all the suspense? I have read the first entry like 5 times already, every morning eagerly logging on to lilsubwaycrybaby.com and trainjotting.com for updates but there are none… I want to see pictures!!
Cheers!