Living in the tunnels of New York City

the rumor of our presence has spread like wildfire through the tunnels hideouts you never imagined existed open up to us the invisible brush up against us the hidden reveal themselves to us forgetting missing for you we believe that Jesus coming oh yeah Wayne going to come mm I make 21 going to take a true believer they took police here a note or 21 going to be dealing on the world so they're all you may write from the Bible you got to be five months or to me from May 21 21 okay in a big this water like a sewer you know and also Isis because they have a to cut anything and will draw you down here I need to sleep outside and how did you the street how did you plan this to my friend my friend funny another many people live here yeah eight years or more than that put on the back now what did you think the first time your friend brought you here and showed you this place no I don't like before when I came over here I don't like it because it was there to dirty you know no I had to paint it I painted and have it I had to do a little yard work you know you have a electricity your set up so like no rent to pay right that's a pleasure and how do you get electricity you take it for all the way in the back I got everything dry you know because I got heat this hideous you know that guy know that heat there sheet hot hot to a month in like you know do I the noise of the Train swings up father you know I'm bother me now Mike what's the door what are you cooking rice bean relish being slab beans and rice nice and you have waters wash yourself sheesh - this is - tell me where you have a new fresh pray

Channel: Docu Stories

Views: 6,324,243

Rating: 4.7597599 out of 5

Keywords: Homeless, tunnels, of, NYC, new, york, city, free, apartment, may, 21st

Id: 2BYoPUOXhVA

Length: 3min 41sec (221 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 13 2010

Reddit Comments

[u/teenagepissparty]

How did he get that fridge down there?

[u/feedmeyourknowledge]

If you find this interesting check out a documentary called 'Dark Days.' It follows multiple people living in shacks / holes like this in the NYC subway. It's my favourite documentary of all time.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjjQJipwSxQ

[u/PurelyCreative]

I'd be too afraid of someone blocking the door with a large object and making it so i couldn't get out

[u/itstimmehc]

The sad thing is he probably got robbed by thieves and/ or shut down by authorities after this video came out

[u/OggiBenDoggy]

Sweet, I bet he only has to pay like $850 a month for a place like that in NYC.

[u/dirtymoney]

it was always a dream of mine to have and live in a secret place, but that is a little too cramped.

Edit: this being particularly interesting to me I have seen a few hidden spaces people have made for themselves or discovered. There was that one couple of guys who basically took over a no longer used room in a mall used to hold construction stuff when the mall was first being built until they were discovered by mall security.

A guy who basically put some painted plywood in between the girders under a bridge and lived in that space.

And another that an urban explorer discovered that was inside an elevated highway that a homeless man was living in. Showcased on reddit.

I really love that kind of stuff.

[u/goodtimebuddy123]

I always wonder what happened to that guy during the floods. I hope all is well for him.

[u/gnark]

He needs to rig himself up a bunch of incandescent bulbs to use that power right. Get all Invisible Man on that situation.

[u/collossalusername]

This guys life is dependant on someone not sitting on that lid