This 200-Ton Earth Worm Is Now Dying Under New York
Right now, there’s a 22-foot-wide metal monster dying 14 stories below park avenue. Together with its twin brother, it excavated 346,607 cubic yards (265,000 cubic meters) of bedrock in a 30,000-foot-long (5.6 miles) tunnel. Now the engineers behind the East Side Access Project—a tunnel that connects New York’s Grand Central Terminal to another terminal in…
