Tunnel Construction Frame Color:Gold Six years later

Six years later

and how many

One had a Badge Torn Off

Officials and notables ride a flatcar with white sheeting covering the wood front railing as the city's first subway riders boarded the IRT for Interborough Rapid Transit at the City Hall Station

Tunnel Construction Frame Color:Gold Six years laterThe Brooklyn Battery Tunnel is eerily quiet as construction remains halted because supplies and manpower have been diverted to America's war effort overseas. On this day, September 20, 1944, the city's Tunnel Authority offered reporters and photographers a first hand look inside one of the idle twin tubes. The tunnel, which connects the Red Hook in Brooklyn to Battery Park in Manhattan, was started in 1940. It had to wait out World War II, unfinished,