• The BrooklynBattery Tunnel, officially the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel and commonly referred to as the Battery Tunnel or Battery Park Tunnel, is a tolled tunnel...
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    The Joralemon Street Tunnel (/dʒəˈrælɛmən/, ju-RAL-e-mun), originally the BrooklynBattery Tunnel, is a pair of tubes carrying the IRT Lexington Avenue...
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    Lincoln Tunnel: 25,944 Brooklyn Bridge: 22,241 Williamsburg Bridge: 18,339 Queens-Midtown Tunnel: 17,968 Holland Tunnel: 16,257 Brooklyn Battery Tunnel: 14...
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    1940, the entirety of Battery Park was closed for twelve years due to the construction of the BrooklynBattery Tunnel and the Battery Park Underpass. The...
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    and tunnels in New York City as well as the tolls collected from them; he built, among others, the Triborough Bridge, the BrooklynBattery Tunnel, and...
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  • Brooklyn-Battery Bridge, on the site of what is now the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. The United States Department of War ultimately rejected the Brooklyn-Battery...
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    operate nonstop between Brooklyn and Manhattan via the Gowanus Expressway or Prospect Expressway to the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, with some routes continuing...
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    bridges, the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg Bridge; a vehicular tunnel, the BrooklynBattery Tunnel (also known as the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel); and several...
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    (IRT)'s lines under Battery Park, near the current BrooklynBattery Tunnel. "Direct Route A" would have utilized a five-section tunnel under the New York...
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    The underpass crosses beneath the Battery (formerly Battery Park) and the approach to the BrooklynBattery Tunnel. The underpass started construction...
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    Street was demolished to make way for the entrance ramps to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. The quarter was located at the southern edge of the site that...
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    Verrazzano Narrows Bridge to the BrooklynBattery Tunnel. The first segment of the Gowanus Expressway, from the BrooklynBattery Tunnel to the Prospect Expressway...
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    Tunnel, BrooklynBattery Tunnel, and Queens–Midtown Tunnel. By 1950, Singstad had designed and overseen the construction of more underwater tunnels than...
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    United States. Its southern terminus is at Battery Place near the northern end of the BrooklynBattery Tunnel in New York City, where it intersects with...
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    currently under construction Water Tunnel No. 3, the Lincoln, Holland, Queens-Midtown, and Brooklyn-Battery tunnels. In addition, they worked on the foundations...
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    Avenue to 59th Street. The highway begins from Battery Park close to the mouth of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel where it also accepts traffic from the southern...
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    Central Terminal, Central Park and Battery Park were closed on October 29. The Holland Tunnel and the BrooklynBattery Tunnel closed at 2 p.m. EDT on October...
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    Manhattan by the BrooklynBattery Tunnel, whose approaches separate it from Carroll Gardens and Columbia Street to the north. The tunnel's toll plaza was...
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    service. The Tappan Zee Bridge was closed, and later the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and Holland Tunnel were also closed. On Long Island, an evacuation was ordered...
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    interested in motorcycles, and was working as a toll collector at the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel when he responded to an advertisement by composer Jacques Morali...
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    rapid transit tunnel under the Narrows in December 1933. This tunnel was approved in conjunction with the proposed BrooklynBattery Tunnel connecting Red...
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    Subway tunnel projects were planned and completed, most notably the BrooklynBattery Tunnel between the southern tip of Manhattan and Brooklyn. In 1911...
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  • the New York City Tunnel Authority to construct the Queens–Midtown and BrooklynBattery Tunnels. Work on the Queens–Midtown Tunnel could start as soon...
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    Huguenot Tunnel, South Africa Dartford Crossing, Kent to Essex Kingsway Tunnel, Wallasey to Liverpool Queensway Tunnel, Birkenhead to Liverpool Tyne Tunnel, North...
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  • perfect for the movie was a giant ventilation structure for the BrooklynBattery Tunnel, which became the outside of the MIB headquarters. Principal photography...
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    numerous rail tunnels pass under the East River – most of them part of the New York City Subway system – as does the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and the Queens-Midtown...
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    1950). "Brooklyn Tunnel Costing $80,000,000 Opened By Mayor". The New York Times. Retrieved March 6, 2010. "Boro-Battery Tube Opens". Brooklyn Daily Eagle...
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    the at-grade parkway north of Grand Street to the Battery Park Underpass and BrooklynBattery Tunnel at the southern tip of Manhattan, was completed in...
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  • 1942. A special set was constructed for the tunnel scenes, based on blueprints for the BrooklynBattery Tunnel. A special mix of adobe and water was used...
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    Street and Edgar Street. It faces the Manhattan exit ramp from the BrooklynBattery Tunnel. Formerly known as the Edgar Street Greenstreet, this park honors...
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