How Men Built New York’s First Clean Water Tunnel Before the City Died of Disease
Forgotten LaborNew York City was burning. It was December 1835, and 674 buildings were gone in 48 hours — not because the fire was too fast, but because there was no water to stop it. A city of 270,000 people had no running water. What happened next took five years, four thousand men, and a self-taught engineer wh