The Mole People Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City

by Toth, Jennifer

• ISBN13: 9781556522413
• ISBN10: 155652241X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Summary

Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, in subway tunnels and below subway platforms and this fascinating study presents how and why people move underground, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives and the "topside" world they've left behind.

Author Biography

Jennifer Toth is a journalist and the author of Orphans of the Living: Stories of America's Children in Foster Care and What Happened to Johnnie Jordan?: The Story of a Child Turning Violent.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	ix
Introduction	1	(6)
Finding a Home	7	(4)
Seville's Story	11	(18)
Mac's War	29	(6)
The Underground Population	35	(8)
Underground Spaces	43	(6)
The Bowery	49	(10)
Living with the Law	59	(14)
Hell's Kitchen	73	(4)
Children	77	(10)
Roots	87	(10)
Bernard's Tunnel	97	(22)
Tunnel Art	119	(10)
Graffiti	129	(6)
Runaways	135	(16)
Tunnel Outreach	151	(14)
Dark Angel	165	(4)
The Underground in History, Literature, and Culture	169	(12)
Wanderers	181	(2)
Harlem Gang	183	(8)
J.C.'s Community	191	(12)
``City of Friends''	203	(10)
Women	213	(16)
Jamall's Story	229	(8)
Blade's Piece	237	(12)
Epilogue	249	(6)
Acknowledgments	255	(2)
Bibliography	257	(4)
Index	261