Lincoln Tunnel Ventilation Tower, 491 11th Ave, NYC, 2025.
All the pixels, none of the carbon monoxide, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54365775629
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@mattblaze@federate.social one of my favourite personal photo genres is the pictures I’ve taken of no photo signs
Rodenstock HR Digaron-W 32mm/4.0 lens (@ f/7.1), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 64), Cambo WRS 1250 camera, shifted vertically -5mm, horizontally -15mm. Cropped a bit.
This humble and functional, yet handsome, art deco structure is the easternmost of three ventilation towers for the Lincoln Tunnel and was completed with its first tube in 1937. The facade was refurbished about ten years ago. It also hosts a large array of cellular telephone base station antennas.
The Lincoln Tunnel, opened in 1937, is a multi-tube automobile tunnel that connects midtown Manhattan with Weehawken, NJ under the Hudson (North) river. To provide fresh air and remove dangerous car exhaust, three ventilation towers (two in Manhattan and one in NJ) exchange the air in the tunnels approximately every 90 seconds.
Infrastructure is heroic.
I didn’t notice the “Camera Use Prohibited” sign until it was too late. I guess their secret is out now.
I didn’t notice the “Camera Use Prohibited” sign until it was too late. I guess their secret is out now.
Woulda been ironic if you’d snapped the picture with a Canon REBEL. 🤣
Manhattan boasts six large ventilation towers serving the four automobile tunnels that cross the Hudson and East Rivers: two each for the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, and one each for the Queens-Midtown and Brooklyn Battery Tunnels.
All sport an industrial art deco design reflecting their early/mid 20th century construction. Their large scale and lack of windows lends them an air of mystery; the exterior of the Battery Tunnel building was used as the secret HQ in the Men in Black films.
@mattblaze@federate.social lies.
It’s the MIB HQ and safe houses.
@mattblaze@federate.social I’m sure the presence of cellular infrastructure doesn’t help the mystery. :D
