Likely so, but Seattleite (?) Bill Speidel has turned this one into a profitable tourist venture.There are quite a few cities like that, aren't there?
Seattle is different than the type of underground that exists in Toronto or Montreal. Those were developed from the lower levels of buildings to make an interconnecting maze of retail establishments. The Seattle Underground is, in fact, the original street level of the city. The city was raised due to the risk of flooding and some quite acute issues with sewage flow. After it hit the fan one too many times, the old city level was abandoned in-place and a new city street level was established at the second story of the existing buildings. The old level still exists with access from shafts at the new street level. It is kind of like a basement museum of old Seattle.There are quite a few cities like that, aren't there?
Dark Days (2000) is a documentary about people living in a tunnel in New York who were kicked out by Amtrak near the time they finished shooting the documentary.NY doesn't have that much of that kind of underground city. There's a lot of underground passages and shopping areas, more in the vane of Montreal's, but nowhere near as extensive. There is also abandoned underground infrastructure, such as dead subway lines, which are rumoured to contain some nonsense called the Mole People. I think thats a load of hogwash, but I am also pretty sure that there are homeless living there.
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