The Secret Infrastructure Beneath NYC - Cheddar Explains
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2019
- Above ground, it's a concrete jungle - centuries of buildings of all different shapes and kinds. But what about underground? We take you on a journey deep under the island of Manhattan to explore what lies below the biggest city in America.
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You can't just talk about a mysterious mirror room and just go on with the video
funny, because i cant even find anything about it online
agevivoku Same
Yeah me either. I’ll check the cumrag of the internet, reddit
Yeah, they need to give the source as to where they got the info from.
@@agevivoku yep. tried every term I know. maybe someone can contact conEd themselves?
The mail system is the first version of the internet. A series of tubes for sending messages... And cats.
Lol
Did the cat make it? What was the purpose of that experiment?
When you make it to the edge of technology you can be sure a cat will be there waiting to push you over the edge.
@@francesbates7607, I think it was to see if the pneumatic tube system can handle bulkier packages. Much like Amazon using drone service for package delivery, except this was done in a manner similar to what Seth Brundle did with the baboons in the Telepods before he sent himself through (with disasterous results manifesting later on).
@@ryanwbourquin
Lighten up there, princess.
Her: “Don’t randomly dig, let’s leave it to the professionals”
Also Her: “Professionals cost the city 300 million a year in errors.”
Amateurs could triple the cost,lol
I'll fix her mistakes any day of the week
Who digs trough sidewalks in NYC. Out of all the random stuff that happens thats not one you see everyday to be the tip the video closes with lol. Also looks like underneath the city is more interesting then the city itself.
Amateurs could easily triple, quadruple or more of that price because they don't have the training professionals do. Even professionals make mistakes....That's why professional drivers, pilots, among others have accidents at times
@@badandy102 As in amateurs don't comprehend the scale of their actions? And could bring huge consequences compared to a master or journeyman mistake being a drop in the bucket?
Sandhogs, cat launchers, chinese gangwars, ancient ships, and lost highways. There is some wild shit going on under NYC.
Not to mention all the asbestos
What happened underground was just as wild or wilder than above ground!
Batter not try launching my cat. He'll rip your throat out!
@@steelionx9255 What happens underground, stays underground.
Well this raises a lot more questions than it answers, that's for sure.
New York City built on a Marsh...
Buildings on solid bed rock....
Cassions in place to support massive Structures !
Contractors best .know what there doing..
Thomas Kelly well said
Also, unique pronunciation, unique measurements, and incomplete research.
Uaawaaaaassßdeee
Did talk about the whole city for human trafficking that gos on .....they ant building water 3 or that highway isn't closed
Ninja Turtles are living under Chinatown then.
OK boomer
@@Perririri ?
You mean if in Chinatown then Kung Pao Turtles
@@Perririri FOH
and in 979 years from now the mutants from futurama
It’s “pneuMATic” not pneuMONic”.
Yes!!! and Insulator NOT "Insulent" If you desire another good laugh, then, replay at @02:12 to see what I'm talking about.
Howard Black : malapropism
@@coldlogiccrusader365 Insulant is actually a word... And no I'm not talking about insolent. It is uncommonly used these days, the more common term is insulation. An insulator is a material that doesn't readily conduct heat or sound but can also be used to describe a device or material that doesn't readily conduct electricity. They can all three be used interchangeably in this instance. Though, I've mostly heard insulator used when talking about electricity.
It is also "ET cetera", not "ECK cetera".
@@LanternOfLiberty YES, thank you!
Imagine what's down further. Imagine how many people are underneath you while you're in new York City
@Nick Fanchette lmao
Celebrities who faked their death
Hidden cities that only the 1% of the 1% can access. Tunnels where kidnapped people go to to get to these secret cities.
8:00 "So maybe dont just start digging on a random sidewalk, we should leave it to the professionals"
Yeah because New Yorkers love taking their shovel for a spin on 5th Avenue every Saturday
I loved that that was the final point she made all this about
@@mrfattypancakes Prosecutor:
Dr. Venkman, would you please tell the court why you and your co-defendants took it upon yourselves to dig a very big hole in the middle of 1st Avenue?
Peter Venkman:
Well, there are so many holes in 1st Avenue, we really didn't think anyone would notice.
Actually I do enjoy taking my shovel out on the weekends to dig all over Manhattan. Why? Because i get paid more money on weekends.
I've seen some pretty weird things on the streets of New York City I wouldn't put it past someone ..lol
Ghostbusters 2
Just ignore that ninja turtles have been living down there for decades
We're not gonna blow up their spot like that.
😂😂 best comment i seen all day
I wasn’t ready, I had forgotten about those turtles. LOL 🤣🤣🤣
As a new york city resident i can confirm this is true
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This video was cool when I first watched it but after doing research almost all the stated tunnels and discoveries where misleading and you guys gave little to no details.
You forgot about the Draco sex trafficking tunnels.
Why they dont want maps, and people educating themselves
🤣
Imagine the secrets hiding under there
1:31 The mnemonic tube??? So it's a tube that helps you remember something?
Lmao glad someone else noticed 😂 PNEUMATIC
"Pneumonic tubes" are just a synonym for bronchi; they let you shoot cats around in your lungs.
So glad I'm not the only one. I really wish this channel would clean up the sloppy mistakes. It's not that hard to hire a competent person or crowd source shit like that.
Fuck that drove me CRAZY. 😤😤😤 THEY NEED TO BE RIPPED A NEW HOLE FOR THAT. Everyone knows it's supposed to be pneumatic.
PNEUMATIC, not mnemonic!
Watch the UA-cam documentary "OUT THE SHADOWS". It will definitely answer some of your questions about these underground tunnels...
Please watch & share www.davidicke.com/article/569853/new-normal-dystopian-reality
@@giosalazar7342 hey, it was taken down. I went to yoyre webpage and it was taken down.
Out of Shadows.
can you please share the link? i cant find it...
YES! WWG1WGA! Q! GLAD TO SEE YOU HERE!
3:19 Lexington Ave - 63rd street is actually one of the deepest stations in the city.
New York is mind boggling, been there once, and very thankful for that opportunity. London is also equally impressive as far as how complex the underworld, if you will, is. I hope I could explore more of such older cities around the world.
I been to nyc loads of times. Never been to London. What’s it like
@@OriginalKingRichTv it's big and everyone talks with those funny accents you only hear in movies or on TV
@@joestrike8537 how big is it ? Like Philly or Chicago?
London ain't about nuthin. it is only the seat of an imperial machine.
New York is so fascinating, with the planning and engineering involved in its history. I can only imagine what secrets the older European cities have hidden beneath them.
You should work on making your sources more detailed. Stating facts like the ones on this video wich have almost no trace anywhare make people doubt about the content of your videos.
Agreed, this video is full of blatant inaccuracies bordering on negligence.
*anywhere
I was just about to comment this. I can't corroborate the interesting facts I tried to learn more about then went to the video summary and realized there are absolutely no sources cited. How are we supposed to believe any of this.
This video raised more questions with me about some of the inconsistencies than it did give me new information.
Construction of water tunnel 3 began in 1970 but has been in work 15 years? As an example. This point just needed a little more explaining.
@@underwaterdick They said 50 years...its almost 2020...
If you stay on the 6 at Brooklyn bridge when they say last stop every one off. You can loop around to the up town station at Brooklyn bridge. You will pass an old station that’s no longer used. Old Wall Street station.
Pretty sure thats the old city hall subway station that you pass on the 6, and is close to the brooklyn bridge. the old wall street station was on the 4, and is further south and west.
Pneumatic tube. Pronounced: New mat ic. Thanks for the video.
I literally have live in nyc for all of my life and never knew this
Oh my I though I was the only one who didn't know about this I was born and live in NY for 34 years. I knew about this subways and the water lines and the electric lines but all the other stuff I had no idea
Manhattan or outside?
@@ericn7975 Bronx and Manhattan
Wow
My uncle knew how to take shortcuts through these tunnels. It was amazing to me how he figured it out. I no longer live in New York City but remember my uncle's tunnel trekking. I never asked him how he learned these shortcuts. He took us on some tunnel treks a few times. He avoided all the crowding above and got from place to place very fast, without a car.
“Very detailed maps”
*shows the least detailed map I’ve ever seen*
hahahah
😭😭
My thoughts exactly lol
You would love to see what Lidar can do
Detailed map in 144p
Your NY series is absolutely wonderful! Professionally researched and delivered.I cannot believe I get to see this quality material on UA-cam while our dear main stream media channels deliver bs 24/7 and it's not even good bs! Thank you for the work you put in, it's really great to get to see such well prepared material. Btw, I subscribed :)
San Francisco also has a lot of buried ships (and it's a much newer city), a lot of them from the 19th century gold rush. SF also has tunnels where drunk men were taken onto ships to be impressed into service as sailors (as does Portland, Oregon). I was most intrigued by the tunnels under Chinatown and the abandoned highway. I wonder if that abandoned highway could be refurbished to be used as a storm shelter?
That's where the term "Shanghai'd" came from I read.
If it's anything like the salt mines deep under Detroit, they may use LOMEX as storage for salt trucks and parade floats. Have you read about the stuff underneath Chicago? It's like a darker, more warped version of Venice.
Or refurbish the underground highway to a bomb shelter the way things are going.
refurbishment is for iphones, not stanky old freeways… get a clue, catch my drift, n00b
@@Razzy-sr4oq link?? 😅 i’m too lanky to look for a linky myself 😩🥺😭
I can't find anything on that mirror room! Was hoping to find a picture or something. Anyone know what it's referred to as? It has to have a Wikipedia page.
Mirror room aka “blue waffle images” in google
@@tjmower321 why did you feel the need to say that. Like, did you think it would work?
@Sam Lutfi dang 😔
@@Luke-ur4sz it redirects to a google books page about the mirror room. No pictures tho
That's probably why they didn't include any more information about it on here. Which makes me wonder why they even mentioned it. It's common sense in journalism that if you can't get corroborating information about what you're reporting on, you don't report on it. Since there's no way to confirm whether it's true or not.
It's interesting? But the intonation? makes everything? she says? sound like a question?
I can't stand when people talk like that.
@@Avery_Hikari I had to stop listening. I start to focus on the intonation and nothing else.
It was really bad. I was interested in the topic but couldn't stop hearing the intonation. Had to move on.
I love the way she talk and comunicate
Why is my first scoop 3? and my second scoop 10 in? Where did I get the bigger shovel? I'm confused?
Very interesting. I am staying in the woods.
Messy utilities are horrible to deal with. I consulted for a landfill in Ohio that has been in operation for 80+ years. Over those 80 years field offices have been built, gas line built/abandoned, air lines, water lines, electric lines and communication crossed every year. Since the work area slowly shifts from year to year there is always new construction. There are lines everywhere and no one really knows what is still live and what isn't. Utility maps save everyone.
Would love to see some pictures of all those hidden tunnels
Yeah me too.
Won't find any. Cheddar is passing off fleeting ideas from the city planning committee, and urban legends as fact.
We won't because is all BS
seasong - Well, here you go... ua-cam.com/video/kXF9EgrcMtQ/v-deo.html
Cockroaches the size of rats? Do you really want to see that?
NYC is no match for my beautiful capital of Pyongyang
Kim Jong-un I agree
What's under Pyongyang.............lots of dead people..
Kim Jong-un we rove you daddy Kim
fuck you kim jong un
LMAO
We need an episode on the mysterious mirror room!
Wow, the Post tubes are damn cool. You can still see some of them in the 80s films, and you've seen them in the Simpsons as well. I've always wondered whether they actually existed or not. And I think the idea is really cool. And why not? So between large buildings, you could do that with parcels by sending parcels underground, so to speak, I say from one packing station to the next or from one post office to the next post office and so on and so forth. Or it could also be in Amsterdam, where there is no special garbage day, but where you simply dump the garbage on the sidewalk in such large containers. And you could do the same with packages. Do, then the post office would no longer have to pick up the parcels from the mailbox, but rather the parcels. Automatically transported to a parcel center or no idea what or maybe directly to the destination.
1:19 Wait how does the cat story end? Did the cat survive?
It did, but since this happened before the turn of the 20th century there is a decent chance it is no longer alive today.
Cheddar, decent chance? I think I would be more concerned to learn the cat was still alive than that it was dead. 😂
The immortal pneumaticat!
So back then the internet was made of tubes and the first upload was a cat.
The cat is still flying around there to this day. Hunting rats at 35mph.
I agree that a consolidated underground map *could* be a security concern if it gets into the wrong hands, but the same could apply to just about any architectural floorpan/siteplan. It frustrates me that a lot of really groundbreaking subway projects have to be delayed for decades or cancelled entirely because there's "just too much stuff down there". That's why they haven't bothered expanding the PATH train from 33rd St to Grand Central Station.
Extremely well done. The format is a great blend of a very pleasant voice and excellent graphics and is just long enough.
Thanks!
Bob
Holy Crap... I knew there was a lot of stuff down there... but had no idea that it went that deep.....
Amazing
NYP Hospital has 4 floors of basement. The last sub-basement is like stepping into time, it's crazy. Brick walls, low ceiling, old knob & tube wiring...
I am very pleased that you are doing metric at least as overlays.
I was saying the same thing
I have never been in Manhattan area, just been on the outer edge around the city. I own tractor an trailers and sometimes drive them but I really enjoyed your video. The mirror room has me wondering now! Need more on that.
thank you for sharing.
this is what i have longed to know about it for ages
A lot of infrastructure goes into keeping NYC a functioning city. I've been the 191st St station, the tunnel that leads up to it is creepy at night
Avery the Cuban-American which one, both the one and the A have their respective tunnels at the same station number on two different sides of the hieghts
Nah. The elevators that take 90 years to come and go are worse when you're trapped with 700 people waiting and trains just keep coming. Those tunnels are a godsend unless you're trying to get to Audubon and have to walk that godforsaken hill.
Yea Let me just dig down a side walk and see what happens 💀
Cray-Z PR you wouldn’t be able to and it’s illegal
r/wooooosh
7:15 Freon is a registered trademark of The Chemours Company, which uses it for a number of halocarbon products. They are stable, nonflammable, low toxicity gases or liquids which have generally been used as refrigerants and as aerosol propellants. These include the chlorofluorocarbons that cause ozone depletion and HCFCs.
I was wondering about this too.
I believe the gas in itself is not explosive at atmospheric pressure and oxygen levels.
but because it is often pressurized, it can 'explode' when the container is ruptured.
Would be good to have an actual expert weigh in.
All I can say is WOW! I will look for more information on this. The part about the room with mirrors is very interesting. Great video!
This is an amazing and beautiful video! I've lived in NYC for 20 years and love learning about it's amazing structures and secrets.
"Like, you know, stuff and, like, stuff."
😄😃🤣
Some One whatever you say boomer
You get to go to GITMO and you get to go to GITMO
Eww, like, whatever ^^
this was your best & most informative video yet.
question: has anyone thought of using Ground Penetrating Radar to map underground? if yes, you should have mentioned it. iam sure it'll be expensive, but with the tech we have now, we should al least have given it a go.
That would be a good idea, I’d say!
»There is an entire city of persons who are "homeless" living down there, the ones who will go to heaven. - J.
I'm an engineer from Canada, this is not out of the ordinary. We have GIS technology (Think google maps but more information) that can record and organize all this data, even bring it into CAD drawings, and some areas of our country they made it a priority, while others are desperately trying to catch up. Currently we have Ontario One in Ontario, Canada, that is supposed to coordinate all the utilities and mark them up on site during design and construction and the contractor and their insurance is responsible for it, not the tax payer (usually). Accidents still happen are going to happen, utilities take on no responsibilities for their information provided, if you ask me more needs to be done, often you get a rare rough offset and a guess at the depth of the utility, sometimes completely wrong information is provided and there is really no reason for this other than do we make the utility pay for it or the tax payer pay for it. British Columbia has a great system in place for some of their areas, you can even look up old drawings of when construction was last done on that road. This information is public and in most cases free. It makes it easier than ever for small companies to get information and compete and startup to get the job done right at a competitive price, through public bidding. It's completely possible, but you gotta stand up to private interests in America, make them cover their overhead otherwise you make the tax payer pay for it or some small business.
I am calling BS on Al Capone smuggling bootleg booze in NYC. He was in Chicago.
Joe Williston he moved to Chicago in his 20’s from NYC. Although I question the legitimacy of the smuggling too because he wasn’t a kingpin or anything like that at the time.
yOU'RE CORRECT--My dad worked on Mcallester tugboats that brought the booze down from upstate NY into Long Island Sound and delivered it to special docks along the private estates of the North Shore.
Booze was shipped from chicago via the Great Lakes waterways and down the Hudson river to Albany where the Tugs with coal barges picked it up , about 1000 gallons at a trip
He jad a few house in battle creek mi . located just about had way between det. and chi. On I-94. One up around Barry county ( lots of lakes and secluded) another in town.
Some military fighting in the dumbs say there's a Sub from NYC TO Chicago and NYC there's a magnetic monorail that goes to Australia then up to England. True I don't know but til it's proven false the ILLUMINATI have had alot of time to build so.
Imagine digging underground, finding a bunch of tunnels that look like they're out of a Sonic game and then a random highway 50ft underground
Very cool and informative. Thanks!!
Cheddar on the surface looks just like any of those other bad channels that just list stuff and have lots of clickbait, but what I love so much about this channel is the quality of the content is always very high and I never fail to learn something new from the videos ❤️
I like cheddar too, but I don’t like the lack of sourcery about the video. On this one there was nothing about the room of the mirrors
7:16 - How can Freon explode, by pushing pressure in the tank up due to high temperature? A main advantage of the stuff was that it doesn't really burn.
Explosions at their core are just pressure waves through air
If a high pressure environment suddenly bursts, you get pressure waves as the substance inside bursts out to try to equalize into the surrounding environment
Yeah, a pressure explosion could happen under the right circumstances
yeah the use of fire imagery in the animation for that was irresponsible, there'd be no fireball. but, BLEVEs are still very powerful explosions, fireball or not.
@@spambot7110 a BLEVE requires a combustible pressurized liquid. A freon tank burning though would release the pressurized contents, which would flash to vapour, but the gas would simply snuff out the existing fire.
@@AlexR2648 why would a Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion need the gas to be combustible? A BLEVE is simply the rapid expansion of the gas. In the case of a combustible gas there's the additional devastation of it igniting, but that's not part of the definition of a BLEVE. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor_explosion
Awesome, spectacular. Your research is impeccable. And inspiring.
Not only did the narrator do a fantastic job, she is very easy to understand for those of us that are a bit hearing impaired. Thanks for that.
Well done. The group of individuals whom came together to create this video, have done a good f'ing job and kept the flow of info moving right along nicely. I've never been to New York and the direction and perspective provided allowed me to somewhat visualize the area/landscape in relation to what's underneath. Good presentation, informative and succinct. Thank you, John DaSilva
A very amazing insight into what lies below. The map, most certainly. Thanks.👍
thanks for this video!
Fascinating! Thank you!
1:28 "The Schrodinger's Cat paradox outlines a situation where a cat in a box must be considered, for all intents and purposes, simultaneously alive and dead. Schrodinger used this as a justification for killing cats."
artistwithouttalent . . .Portal?
@@jtsancen4435 2.
Serial killer
Please stop using upspeak, it makes cheddar videos almost unwatchable...
Yeah, I was wondering if anyone else noticed it. I don't mind upspeak, but this one was really bad with lots of unnatural pauses. IDK why this video in particular was so bad, but yeah. Sounded really uncomfortable and almost like the narrator didn't know what she was about to say the next sentence.
I thought the same too, it got annoying within a minute
I think it's so they don't get ahead of the animations.
Upspeak and a serving of vocal fry on the side. 😂
@@vividcitypro then they should adjust the script and/or the animations.
Very clear and informative. Great work 😋
Awesome vid very interesting and informative keep up the good work
I just like how 3 inches is bigger than a 2nd floor 0:19
More like 8
I think you meant pneumatic mail tubes...powered by pressurized air
That's one of the most fascinating things I've seen. I often wondered where all that stuff is since I saw a photo of Times Square with utility poles covered with hundreds of wires and the streets clogged with foot traffic, horses and wagons.
That was during a brief period in history, between when Edison brought electric lighting into everyone's homes and when Tesla made it not suck (introduced Alternating Current)
I used to work at Angelika Film Center on the corner of Houston & Mercer (Fall of '93). One night the manager took all us ushers downstairs into the catacombs. Apparently, if you go in the building & over to where they rip your ticket, then you go down the escalator to the screening rooms, at the bottom to the left is a closed door. You go in & immediately to your right, there's a set of stairs. we probably went down 15-25 feet or so & there were the catacombs. We didn't venture too far. We all had our mag lites. At one point we turned them all off & you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. The maze looked like it was endless. There were no signs of life, nor bad smells. After everyone trying to scare the crap out of the other, we all went back upstairs.
The details of what is under NY is vastly interesting and holds the rapt interests of several urban explorers groups... some of which never return. I love cheddar; your channel is pretty cool too!!! ;)
AHHHH, THIS IS WHERE deblazio CAME FROM. THANKS NOW WE KNOW.
RIP that cat
This is great fun. Good work. Keep it up.
2:47 so where just gonna gloss over that? Like "yeah whatever secret underground mirror room don't worry about it" I want someone to explain this shit
The only source people have seemed to find (with the power of Reddit) was a single page in a 40 year old book regarding New York underground secrets, made it seem like just an urban legend
6:53 looks like she is/was crying
Jonathan she pretty tho
They’re holding her at gunpoint off camera
She's just very nervous and trying to hold herself together.
She has to do a scene for blacked later
Thought the same
What would be cool is to have a hint 3d map of everything underground, it would make things easier to understand the complexity, and would just be satisfying to look at
Incredibly interesting, and well presented!
"mnemonic" mail tubes???
3:14 that's equivalent to a 15 storey building
I understood that reference
Aaah, I see you're a man of culture as well.
Geoff?
Kiev has even deeper metro.
I cannot wait to see videos of water tunnel 1 and 2!
This was really interesting!
I don’t think that’s how you pronounce “pneumatic”
I was like "am I tripping" 😂😂😭
Bubonic
The cat part had me dying 😆😅
am Canadian, just WOW, didn't know everything went so deep, probably here as well.. ty
Wow! that was pretty amazing info that didnt cross my mind. In uk just look at the subway like a norm without thinking all the stuff inbetween 🙈. Good to get a brief there 👍
I love how she made sure everything was perfectly to scale
Edit...just saw the disclaimer..
Wow, I would never imagine that this would be under New York City.
Outstanding information, incredible
Go Cheddar! An invaluable source for the obvious and critical.
What happend to the cat?!
Legend has it he haunts the tubes and shreds any mail that comes its way
My Boy Master Splinter is living somewhere!
Interesting video.
Great work! 👍
the mail thing shocked me! I've never heard of that
This would be the best scary movie. Deep under ground a sand hog discovers the old highway and has to survive a ghost family that was stuck in the highway as he make his way up all on his own
Wow, that was really interesting! Fascinating stuff 🐨
The mail thing actually blew my mind i had no clue especially how long ago it was made and worked? Wow im looking that up
Thank You! Very interesting 😊 stay safe 🌸
Tunnel linking Capital houses
4:25 Can I get a source for this built portion of LOMEX if this is even accessible to look at
Someone?
Anyone?
Randumb I’ve looked and haven’t found anything 😕, if you somehow find something. Let me know please
PLEASE I NEED TO KNOW!!!!
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Fascinating video, thanks... 🤔👍
Very interesting. The steam pipes brought me here, but wow, the depth of the water pipes....