Tuesday Blogwrap
Center for the Study of Brooklyn Releases Directory [PMFA] Crazy Saga of Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Tours Continues [mcbrooklyn] Brooklyn Courthouse Bathrooms Overwhelmed with Dirty Jokes [Gawker] Park Committee OKs Consideration of Nine Housing Alternatives [BHB] Santa And His Reindeer Burn Down Brooklyn Building [Gothamist] Photo by zlandr.
Center for the Study of Brooklyn Releases Directory [PMFA]
Crazy Saga of Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Tours Continues [mcbrooklyn]
Brooklyn Courthouse Bathrooms Overwhelmed with Dirty Jokes [Gawker]
Park Committee OKs Consideration of Nine Housing Alternatives [BHB]
Santa And His Reindeer Burn Down Brooklyn Building [Gothamist]
Photo by zlandr.
Unless that is after midnight….
Thanks douche for delaying the thousands in the train for your selfish needs.
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This picture is a nice counter-balance to all those unpeopled urban landscape photographs that predominate. Not only is a person front and center, he is actively doing something. Even deChirico, for all of his existential ennui, had a human element in most of his paintings.
I hear you. And the reason you mentioned were exactly the same reasons why we went. But talking to the students who “work” it, and seeing the lines of people made me wonder. Bob seems like a decent guy but he ain’t doing it for altruistic reasons for sure. I’m just suspect of all that money and where it goes. And the fact that no one ever brings it up makes me wonder. The city owns the street and everything underneath it. C’mon, Bob and city of NY! What’s the truth?
That’s fair. I went a couple of years ago and don’t remember exactly how many people there were or how often it was offered. It is likely a significant chunk of change.
I suppose I just find it appealing that such a relatively-little known, ad hoc tour, of such a magnificent, hidden artifact can go on in this day and age, right in the midst of Atlantic Avenue, and part of that seems to stem from the informality of it all.
Bob Diamond paying taxes and complying with FDNY safety regulations (come on, that thing MUST be a death trap) seems to be the inevitable first step to this thing being sponsored by Barclays, costing $50 to visit, and having a gift shop on the way out. But them’s the rules.
very cool picture.
Check your math, dixie! I took that tour. There were 200-300 people on the Saturday I went—the same on the next day. If he does that once a month, that’s a whole lot more than $18K. And I have never heard the city boast how much they get from it. Call my a cynic but there’s something rotten in Denmark.
At around a tour a month, $15 a head, and say a hundred people on a tour, Bob Diamond is bringing in a whopping $18,000 a year, minus expenses. He can keep it.
He may have discovered that tunnel but he does not own it! As a resident of Brooklyn I wanna see a full accounting. That tour ONLY accepts cash. After all these years—where did all that money go?
I don’t hate on Bib, after all he discovered it. Also, I think he was using the $ to fund the trolley from RH to downtown.