The Freedom Tunnel is an underground railroad passage in New York that runs beneath Riverside Park, from Penn Station up to Harlem. Built in the thirties by Robert Moses and quickly forsaken, it soon became a refuge for mole people and graffiti outlaws. Free from the fear of patrolling law enforcement, spraypaint artists could afford to spend more time on their craft, and as a result some of the artwork is pretty stunning. Occasional shafts of light give the tunnel a cathedral reverence. 
Needless to say, I was properly floored by this photograph by one Irena Kittenclaw.
An impressive gallery of the tunnel and its graffiti can be found at Citynoise.
07 January 2010
The Freedom Tunnel
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