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Mole People: Life in the Tunnels beneath New York City » (Reissue)

Authors: Jennifer Toth, Chris Pape (Illustrator), Margaret Morton
ISBN-13: 9781556522413, ISBN-10: 155652241X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Date Published: October 1995
Edition: Reissue

This book is about the thousands of people who live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels of New York City.

Toth's firsthand account of the sad, bizarre subculture of people who live in New York's abandoned subway tunnels and sewage lines. (Sept.)

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