{"id":4971,"date":"2013-10-16T11:23:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T18:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4971"},"modified":"2013-10-22T11:28:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T18:28:58","slug":"water-tunnel-no-3-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/16\/water-tunnel-no-3-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Tunnel No. 3 Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/17\/nyregion\/new-water-tunnel-can-provide-water-for-all-of-manhattan.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>After Decades, a Water Tunnel Can Now Serve All of Manhattan<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" itemid=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2013\/10\/17\/nyregion\/water-4\/water-4-articleLarge.jpg\" itemprop=\"url\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2013\/10\/17\/nyregion\/water-4\/water-4-articleLarge.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" \/><em>Pool photo by Mary Altaffer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<a title=\"More Articles by MATT FLEGENHEIMER\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/f\/matt_flegenheimer\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">MATT FLEGENHEIMER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of all New York City\u2019s sprawling mega-projects, the water tunnel snaking beneath the grid \u2014 connecting the Bronx to Upper Manhattan, Upper Manhattan to Central Park, Central Park to Queens, and, eventually, Queens to the western edge of Brooklyn \u2014 is perhaps the hardest to love.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no new subway to board when the work is done, no elevator to ride to the top of a skyscraper. Even the name is shrouded in anonymity: Water Tunnel No. 3, the last in a trilogy that few New Yorkers would pay to see.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the most significant milestones for the city\u2019s water supply in nearly a century, the tunnel \u2014 authorized in 1954, begun in 1970 and considered the largest capital construction project ever undertaken in the five boroughs \u2014 will for the first time be equipped to provide water for all of Manhattan. Since 1917, the borough has relied on Tunnel No. 1, which was never inspected or significantly repaired after its opening.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/17\/nyregion\/new-water-tunnel-can-provide-water-for-all-of-manhattan.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times After Decades, a Water Tunnel Can Now Serve All of Manhattan Pool photo by Mary Altaffer By\u00a0MATT FLEGENHEIMER Of all New York City\u2019s sprawling mega-projects, the water tunnel snaking beneath the grid \u2014 connecting the Bronx to Upper Manhattan, Upper Manhattan to Central Park, Central Park to Queens, and, eventually, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}