For many decades, rumors have circulated about thousands of homeless people descending below the streets of New York, and finding their way into the many abandoned train tunnels that lay buried and forgotten beneath the swarming city. Here the destitute, the addicted, and the otherwise forgotten have gathered, simultaneously shunning the street level society that rejected them while forming societies of their own, based on their own rules and values. They build homes, steal electricity, tap into water pipes, and create dwellings for themselves far more elaborate than anything they could create on the streets. In the 1990s, a British model living in New York City turned his back on the high life and threw his lot in with the homeless living in these underground tunnels, eventually translating their lives into an intriguing documentary. His name is Marc Singer, and the film he created is “Dark Days”…
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:05:53 +0000
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