New Yorks Underwater Tunnel - The History of the Holland Tunnel

[@johnnymula2305]

While working in Manhattan, ive taken the tunnel many times. But as a native New Yorker, things like this are taken for granted. Looking forward to this video.

[@samanthab1923]

Remember asking my Dad on the way in all the time. He grew up in the Bronx & became an Ironworker. Worked on Lincoln Center.

[@Guitarsnspraycans]

I just visited NYC last week, my mom started freaking out a little when I told her we were underwater

[@BlackDotLiving]

Very true!!

[@jeffrey.a.hanson]

It’s funny like that. All these NY ‘marvels’ are things I’ve bitched about ha.

[@No-sc9wm]

How is it taken for granted? It doesnt increase how long i will live.

[@Taima]

One time when I was a kid, coming home from visiting family in North Jersey (we lived in Brooklyn at the time) my dad suddenly posed what to me was then a massive question - "so which tunnel do you want to take?" good god the power of choice was overwhelming. It was fairly late at night and he wasn't worried about traffic, otherwise he would have picked what he thought was less congested. I think I picked Lincoln, and I believe he ended up frustrated when there was still somehow more traffic than we bargained for and I got a "should've went through the Holland tunnel..." for it lol.

[@EnjoySackLunch]

Amazing how easily we take marvels like this for granted nowadays.

[@seannewberry7941]

Todays generation and those going forward, will never know the history behind things.

[@JamalMcCoy-tx2vz]

Nor will they appreciate it...

[@EnjoySackLunch]

@@JamalMcCoy-tx2vz oh shut up already.

[@mkendallpk4321]

In the 1960s we used to use the Holland Tunnel a lot. As part of the route from our home in New Jersey to Family in Brooklyn. By the mid-60s the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge was completed and we no longer used the tunnel. It was a very weird experience to a little boy to go through the tunnel and I always wondered what the phone booth boxes were for. Until my Father explained that they used to have policemen manning them in case of trouble.

[@samanthab1923]

We were also from NJ. Headed into the city for all sorts. We would get all excited if we saw the Port Authority cops in the booth or better the little motorized cart!

[@freddielugo1486]

@@samanthab1923 I'd got excited too

[@jimlewis7200]

Were you a baseball fan, the mets, dodgers, yankees, giants.

[@jimlewis7200]

Bsseball was a great time in the city

[@jimlewis7200]

Immigrants built new york.hope people dont forget and lots of them died building new york.

[@thekhamisiproject]

I am a NYC resident and self-proclaimed History geek. I LOOOOOVE learning about the history of EVERYTHING, especially my surroundings. I JUST discovered this channel a couple of days ago and I swear I am OBSESSED, like, "how did they know I wanted to know that??? HOW??" I couldn't sub it fast enough! 😳

[@roseeze166]

I'm not alone

[@labeef1953]

Love your channel Ryan! There’s nothing like it anywhere. I’ve learned a lot. Please keep them coming! 😊😊😊

[@charlescrawford7039]

Yes, an episode on the Lincoln Tunnel would be a good follow up. Also, an episode on the tunnels and bridge that made Penn Station possible would be of interest. Thanks, for these!

[@ITSHISTORY]

It will happen!

[@justhearmeout]

Yes! Lincoln tunnel! Please give as much detail on the clearing of property, and how since replaced by "the apartments". Great job.

[@mauricepointer9555]

Outstanding video! Yes, please do a video on the Lincoln Tunnel. I've always had a fascination about civil engineering projects & thanks to channels like this one, we viewers can watch the history of great projects. All the best to you.

[@jetsons101]

At 15:00 the sign says "Keep 75 feet apart" Boy is that a dream today.... What a fun and informative watch...

[@rupe53]

back in the day that also had signs on fire trucks sayin keep back 300 ft... but who are they kidding?

[@tiffanyi5645]

The Holland Tunnel looks and feels like it was built in the 1920’s. I always feel almost claustrophobic in there praying that no one breaks down in front of me lol

[@boywonder8114]

That part 😧

[@ikmarchini]

The Holland Tunnel has four lanes for traffic in two directions and 9 feeder lanes in NJ only. The East River subway tunnel was for the BMT line (Brooklyn Manhattan Transit) not BTM. A video about the river traffic it replaced would be very interesting. My father told me about ferries for horse drawn wagons around WW1 before automobiles and fixed crossings were built on the Hudson, even a ferry at 125th St. for non rail carriage. All freight train traffic from the west ended in Jersey City or Hoboken and had to take the water ferries to NYC. There were trains running up and down 12th Avenue servicing the rail cars until the early 1970s. Train train traffic from the north could directly enter Manhattan via the Bronx so the Holland Tunnel connected vehicles in NY with the rest of the country, not only NJ.

[@jhardman4534]

Would love to see the history of the Lincoln Tunnel. TY

[@RCAvhstape]

9:29 "Chevy Citaaaaaaation!"

[@bongwelll]

When I first moved to the east coast I lived in NJ right above the Lincoln Tunnel. Now I live in Brooklyn and rarely use the vehicle tunnels. I use the subway.

[@jimlewis7200]

The holland or the lincoln, welcome to ny brother!!!!

[@JF-vw9lv]

Just need a video on the Lincoln Tunnel, George Washington Bridge, Verranzo, and Tappan Zee

[@Redwoodxxs]

Fun Fact: In 1996 a movie called daylight was made about this tunnel. It was based off the explosion in the 40s. It didn't do well in America but it's honestly a great movie.

[@danjones3402]

Been through this a few times but this is definitely a place where you don't want your car breaking down on you at. 🙏

[@Pj97641]

Omg yes my biggest fear

[@billsmith2212]

Great information . The Lincoln Tunnel , any other tunnels , bridges or other great feats of engineering would be a fine compliment to this .

[@juant3969]

Awesome video. Being born and raised here in NYC, I never knew the tunnel was named after and that original name as well. I love learning NYC’s history. NYC is so far deep in history that it will take a lifetime to uncover.

[@GD1082]

Grew up in the area, when I was older I heard some girls telling a story about getting lost in Manhattan driving their car and accidentally getting the lanes to access the Holland Tunnel. When they realized their error it was too late to turn out and they openly mused "Where does this tunnel go?" And the other replied, "Holland?" And they were surprised (like this was news) when they exited the tunnel they were greeted with a sign that said "Welcome to New Jersey". 🙄

[@lyte4240]

@@GD1082 😂

[@blxvkpxndx]

A Lincoln Tunnel video would complement this one really well.

[@mak00ileven]

Driven in this tunnel many of times. Its always great to know the history of these Engineering feats

[@billgreen1861]

Yes, the Lincoln Tunnel video would be appreciated. 👍

[@Fony_turgeson]

It's amazing the projects workers created back in the day with little to no technology or safety measures. This is what this country was built in

[@diezel5267]

Please do part II for the Lincoln Tunnel. It's very hard to find historical information on these tunnels! Thank you!!

[@PennWolfsSailingAdventures]

In 23yrs trucking I've been through both of those tunnels more times than I can count. I can remember a couple times running through those tunnels with the flaps of my exhaust stacks rubbing the ceiling like a cable car, and you didn't accelerate hard with a medium to light load, the torque could push the high trailers into the ceiling, they finally restricted the height after a couple years in the early 2000's.

[@georgemohr7532]

Yes, follow up with information on the Lincoln Tunnel. Your video are very informative.

[@MrWoodyBalto]

For those curious, the current Toll cost $16.00 for passenger cars today.

[@samanthab1923]

Omg! I had no idea. Commuted from NJ & PA for years back 25 years ago. Guess it's been a while. That's insane!

[@ikmarchini]

The Port Authority of NY and NJ makes the Mafia look tame. Locals are still trying to figure out where they stash the cash as their JFK, LGA, and EWR airports are all antiquated disasters. Just where does over a million dollars collected every day go?

[@themoviedealers]

It was $3 when I learned to drive in the 80s.

[@samanthab1923]

@@themoviedealers Feel like all the bridges & tunnels were 1.50 forever as a kid. Then $2 & finally $4 when I was working. Don’t go in much any more. Had no idea it got to $16! Insane!

[@Keemandkam]

😂

[@timrohla3166]

Of course we want a part 2, you ALWAYS knock it out of the park Ryan!

[@TracyA123]

Awesome! What a great video!! Yes!! Lincoln tunnel please!!!!👍☺

[@DZ-vk2qn]

Recently found your channel and it's an instant favorite. I live in Chicago and literally all your Chicago videos have been topics I had no clue about. Keep up the great work :)

[@nicoleeudelle6893]

He was a genius and his mathematical skills is like no other. To calculate all of that pressure to determine the accurate amount. I can't imagine.

[@ronniecarter9688]

🌹 💐 happy new year

[@nicoleeudelle6893]

@@ronniecarter9688 thank same to you.

[@ronniecarter9688]

@@nicoleeudelle6893 indeed, & a best 2022 to you 😉

[@Obiter3]

Living in Long Island for my 1st 30 years, I can't even begin to imagine how many times I passed through that tunnel

[@jimlewis7200]

You ever pray when you make it out the tunnel, when you go in,

[@RomeAlone_s63]

Looking forward to watching this later. Born and raised in nyc and always asked myself how they made the tunnel and etc. as child and even as an adult, thanks man 💪🏼

[@itching2play732]

Great Videos! Subbed! Gimme that Lincoln tunnel video :D

[@beandrive]

I remember the first time I went thru the Holland Tunnel, from NJ to NY in the early 1970's. Wow! I was impressed, as I entered Manhattan, the song on the radio was Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein, you don't forget something like that.

[@themoviedealers]

Spooky.

[@Oilerpa]

Why didn’t you mention that the Stallone’s movie Daylight (96) was about the Holland Tunnel. You mentioned in the Brooklyn Battery Bridge video that MIB was about that bridge

[@johnw2026]

Gotta love the police officer driving the little trolley at 14:33. He ain't catchin' nobody in a high speed chase! 😂🤣

[@Earcandy73]

I have driven through that tunnel hundreds of times. I know it like the back of my hand. Thank you for posting such an interesting video!

[@danjones3402]

You live in NY?

[@dariusgodwin9274]

Easier to get to but since I'm usually going to Midtown, I'm a Lincoln Tunnel head. If I'm going to be stuck in traffic, might as well already be further north. Very informative and interesting video. Brick City NJ

[@javianjohnson8746]

Being from North New Jersey, the Holland Tunnel is something I'm VERY familiar with since I love going to New York City. Seeing the history being this is very interesting to me, especially learning about those two massive brown buildings that apparently are ventilation buildings. Thank you for this breakdown

[@nikolaospeterson2495]

I had a good friend in San Francisco that used to live in NYC. He had before his demise in 2005 a black book with gold leafing given to him by the City of New York, called Mr. First and Last. One of the places is the Holland Tunnel, (The other tunnel was the Lincoln tunnel) where he wound up sleeping at the wheel of his car on a pillow as to be in both tunnels the official FIRST user of these two tunnels of course on two different dates. He passed away George Edward Horn in 2005.

[@MrAlexcastellino]

Great video!! Please make one on the Lincoln tunnel. Ive ridden on the Lincoln 10 times as much as the Holland when I lived in New York

[@alexlents4689]

Excellent video! The storytelling is very Ken Burns-esque. Very engaging!

[@sheldonhchambliss1385]

Interesting very interesting

[@jamesholt7612]

Awesome video my friend.

[@TheCloakedTiger]

A video on the Brooklyn Battery, Lincoln, and Queens Midtown Tunnels would be cool.

[@alanpecherer5705]

I remember the first time I went though the Holland tunnel. I grew up in New Jersey and the first 50 times we went into NYC we went through the Lincoln tunnel. So the Lincoln, from the NJ side, has this enormous, grandiose circle feeding the tunnel. Whereas the Holland emerges from under the river in NYC in a very demure, kind of "in the middle of the block" type of affair. You could drive by it and miss it.

[@OG_DSM]

Thank you for the morning lesson on the Holland tunnel. Looking forward to the Lincoln tunnel now. 🤗

[@LongIslandNow]

Goin thru tunnels at night are the Most Beautiful experience!!

[@greentriumph1643]

Q: Why is everyone in Manhattan depressed? A: The light at the end of the tunnel is New Jersey.

[@NorthGeorgiaAudit]

I’ve learned more about history from this KZbin channel than I did from 3 years of A.P. History.

[@BrianaMari]

watching this while driving the holland tunnel😭

[@Pablo-br3ve]

Can you do a video on a Path train

[@filanfyretracker]

There was a corny Stallone movie that I think was inspired by that first truck explosion, Though it was a no-name tunnel is was very obviously the Holland. Movie was called Daylight I think, Admittedly corny is a bit redundant with Stallone films but it was good brain off entertainment.

[@sabrinagrant8003]

I’m already a subscriber therefore I’d love to see your video on the Lincoln tunnel😀

[@darylreed7771]

Thumbs up for the Lincoln tunnel! You should’ve added the holland tunnel puts you right in the heart of canal st. china town, and all the fake coach bags my old lady can handle. Plus the food is bangin too!

[@rayfridley6649]

Holland Tunnel's toll collection was on the Canal Street side, having scattered toll booths that served both inbound and outbound traffic. This made for a dangerous flow situation as many accidents occurred quite often.

[@michaelcassidy5684]

The toll booths were never in NY. The booths were always in Jersey City. The area is called Boyle Plaza. The toll has always been one way into NY.

[@therealEXMO]

This story made me subscribe...told very well

[@JeffFrmJoisey]

I'd love to see a video on the Lincoln Tunnel! It's initial construction and its later expansion/addition of the third tube.

[@nathancook1404]

I think covering the Lincoln Tunnel and all the other Tunnels would make a good Idea for a video, there was a scene in Men In Black where they go through Queens tunnel in their jet power car.

[@janbell609]

I would love to see about the Lincoln Tunnel. My grandfather worked on the project.

[@danjones3402]

Amazing, he is he still alive?

[@janbell609]

@@danjones3402 Unfortunately he died in the 1950's. I never got the chance to meet him.

[@carlavision6143]

Came across your video and subscribed to your channel. Very interesting!

[@roseeze166]

I don't care what nobody says. America is a GREAT GREAT NATION. Great visionaries who build people who are a benefit to society.

[@rknine7998]

I've always been curious on how the Holland Tunnel looks underneath the water. Is it possible you could record the documentary of diving underneath the water and tracing the tunnel to the other side?

[@Timetraveler101]

No possible…its below level water ..bedrock! …..if a diver goes down there …what he is going to see its just flat ground mud,rock etc…. The tunnel is below that ….

[@davidparker8221]

The Tunnel is approximately 60' below the bottom of the river in bedrock.

[@apseudonym]

Uh, no. No tunnel is immersed in water like that, they are built below the water's surface in the bedrock where leaks and erosion are less likely.

[@rknine7998]

@@apseudonym How deep would that be, under the rocks under the water's depth?

[@SheldonAaron5464]

Very cool

[@Brian_rock_railfan]

great video 👍

[@willmatic84]

This one gonna be interesting because I drove through the Holland the other day 😋👌🏽

[@ITSHISTORY]

I am always amazed when I drive through there!

[@bwithrow011]

Ryan, I love your channel. I will be watching 👀 and liking 👍 more of your videos. Keep posting

[@MYGOLDCOIN101]

Hiya, its Coaster from the Stream, this is my other channel I mentioned in the premier @MINTED IN HISTORY Thank you for another smashing video!

[@iamwill89]

You should do a video on the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. The only Int’l tunnel on US- Canadian border.

[@SocialistDistancing]

I've been through the Lincoln tunnel a couple of times. They use interesting tow trucks to remove broke down vehicles and keep the tunnel opened.

[@gangsterbroccoli]

Would you be able to make a video on battery tunnel ?

[@tonytins]

I used to live in Queens as a child, and we took the Holland Tunnel to get to Penn Station.

[@ClementinesmWTF]

The history of Manhattan’s river crossings are always super interesting. They always seem to be marvels of engineering of their times. This isn’t very engineering-centric, but I find it super interesting/coincidentic that this tunnel on the south end of Manhattan (old New Amsterdam 😉) is named “Holland”. Tbh, this is the first I’ve learned it wasn’t actually directly named after NYC’s Dutch past. I always assumed it was named for lower Manhattan’s past, but I’m glad to learn the great civil engineer Clifford Holland existed and was appropriately honored

[@SacredFire777]

I thought the same until now.

[@dn744]

Fantastic

[@redm91]

0:02 HOLLAND TUNNEL: "EXPECT DELAYS" yup

[@CerveloR5]

Lincoln Tunnel pt.2 please!!

[@davidawelty]

Thanks for this!! Yes on a part 2!! As a New Yorker I love the cities infrastructure and its history - everything here has an amazing story.

[@robertcamara1529]

Clifford M. Holland was from Somerset, MA, and there is a street running by the town's high school and police station named for him.

[@dscott130]

Lincoln Tunnel, yes!

[@jakeballard7999]

and to think in 100 years, they have NOT built anything on this scale to match, yet raising the price every year

[@13NEGUS]

its crazy that you mention clark st right now its under construction

[@paulsuprono7225]

Something that's taken for granted, today . . . but just imagine the immediate changes in life when the tube was enhanced/advanced vehicular tunnel travel ! 😀

[@thibautbaronheid1928]

It was taken as example for the Daylight movie. Quite an anguish to be stuck in it.

[@CourtneyJasmine07062]

Very interesting I'm from North Jersey I've always been interested in how the built they Holland Tunnel.

[@harrickvharrick3957]

What is that big square mostly white construction that's visible in the few seconds of footage of the river starting 2:51? Inside of it the water level is lower than it is in the river itself!

[@ronniecarter9688]

crazy when the movie DAYLigHT was in theatres i had to ride thru the tunnels twice a day in the morning from jersey / new york, so that just added to the fears of praying the structure was holding up. wasn't there a attempted attack on the tunnels pre-911 .. lmao

[@coreyg9]

Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel would be a good one as well.

[@alexius23]

Have used it many times as a kid…always thought it was so kewl

[@srfurley]

Would certainly be interested to see a video on the Lincoln Tunnel; I saw the entrances to both when I was over there several times between 2002 and 2010. Did not pass through as I do not drive; are there any bus services which operate through the tunnels?

[@apseudonym]

Yes

[@oneradicalgayngsta2659]

Photo shows a 1952 Packard to illustrate the 1927 opening??? PAAALEASE?¿?

[@DaveSCameron]

You should cover the often overlooked treasure that is the Queensway Tunnel, connecting the Wirral peninsula with the city of Liverpool, opened by King George himself. ☘️🇬🇧📚

[@mickael486]

Does it occur to anyone else how we could do such amazing and expensive things for over 150 years and now we have to struggle through in congress for months to pass a bill to just FIX shit.

[@robert4123]

Wait for Milton Freeman you couldn’t find a picture of the man so you used…LOL that was funny.

[@RD-zj6vc]

I always thought it was named after the country, since NYC has a Dutch historical background. Was surprised it was named after the guy who designed it, who just happened to be named Holland.

[@jimlewis7200]

It maybe dutch but immigrants built new york , more died building it than 911.

[@hello_its_me.]

When are they installing a new bicycle lane within the tunnel ?

[@geodot595]

in ww2, the cunard queens loaded down with 15000 troops had a draught of 40 ft plus.the soldiers were assigned a location and to stay still so that they would not cut through the holland tunnels at low tide.

[@828enigma6]

Don't you mean low tide?

[@geodot595]

@@828enigma6 typo, absolutely low tide!

[@projectzip]

Explosives in a tunnel. Theres only one man to Rescue the survivors “Kit Latura”

[@AlexMartinez-me2yc]

Having been born & raised in NY & NJ, I learned it was better to take the Lincoln tunnel into NY & the Holland tunnel into NJ.