Uma viagem por baixo de Nova York
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/07/17/nyregion/20080718_SUBWAY_FEATURE.html?scp=3&sq=Raymond%20McCrea%20Jones&st=cse Interactive A Tunnel to the City’s Center Graphic Deep Underground Enlarge This Image Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times Jimmy Diamond, a sandhog, or tunnel worker, helped the conductor of the Mantrip, a train that carries workers through the tunnel, navigate safely toward Grand Central Terminal. Some 19 stories under the streets of Manhattan on Thursday, the driver of a 640-ton telescopic tunnel-boring machine stood in a tiny windowless metal cubicle before a pair of small computer screens and an array of buttons and gauges. “No windshield? Don’t need one,” said the driver (or operator, as he prefers), Anthony Spinoso. Over several months he has driven the machine 7,700 feet, from a spot deep under Second Avenue and 63rd Street, through the bedrock, to the depths beneath Grand Central Terminal, where the tun...