Walter was the last of the Mole People from the 1990s a time when dozens of people lived in a tunnel beneath New York City.

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On the west side of Manhattan, under the Westside Highway is an Amtrak train tunnel, known as the Freedom Tunnel. For decades homeless people lived in this tunnel. Over the years, these people became commonly known as "mole people."

In the early 1990s the tunnel became active again, and the authorities threw everyone out. A few people remained hidden in the tunnel, and continued to live there, but most did not return. Walter was one of the people who remained, and was one of the last of the original mole people.

Additional people moved into the tunnel in the early 2000s, but they were much fewer in number than in the 1980s and 90s.

I met Walter and filmed this interview in 2008. I posted a short video from this footage one year ago, and decided to share more of the footage now.

In this interview Walter talks about his time living in the tunnel beneath New York. He lived there for 25 years, and saw the tunnel at it's peak. Sadly Walter passed away in 2012.

Around that same time Amtrak began cleaning up the tunnel. They painted over the old graffiti, and threw out the few remaining residents.

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