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Lincoln Tunnel Ventilation Tower, 491 11th Avenue, NYC, 2025 (cdn.masto.host)
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Lincoln Tunnel Ventilation Tower, 491 11th Avenue, NYC, 2025.All the pixels, none of the tolls, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54#photography

A simple industrial art deco-style building, lacking windows, but with a narrow louvered vent at center running vertically along its length, on a city street.
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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

The Lincoln Tunnel, opened in 1937, is a multi-tube automobile tunnel that connects midtown Manhattan with Weehawken, NJ under the Hudson (North) river. To provide fresh air and remove dangerous car exhaust, three ventilation towers (two in Manhattan and one in NJ) exchange the air in the tunnels approximately every 90 seconds.Infrastructure is heroic.I didn't notice the "Camera Use Prohibited" sign until it was too late. I guess their secret is out now.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Manhattan boasts six large ventilation towers serving the four automobile tunnels that cross the Hudson and East Rivers: two each for the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, and one each for the Queens-Midtown and Brooklyn Battery Tunnels. All sport an industrial art deco design reflecting their early/mid 20th century construction. Their large scale and lack of windows lends them an air of mystery; the exterior of the Battery Tunnel building was used as the secret HQ in the Men in Black films.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    There are also ventilation structures for the various railroad and subway tunnels that cross the NYC rivers, but their smaller size makes them less prominent. (The electric trains that use these tunnels don't produce exhaust that has to be as aggressively vented as in an automotive tunnel).Let me just mention that photographing buildings from across the major avenues during the day in midtown Manhattan is like playing a video game in "extreme hardcore" mode.

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