As Molloy notes in the introduction, “Chick” Donohue seems an archetypal two-fisted, old-school New Yorker, a military veteran who’d become a Teamster and tunnel “sandhog.” In 1967, then a Marine veteran and merchant mariner, he accepted an outsized challenge at Doc Fiddler’s Bar ...
According to Brian Mynes, the sandhogs are building a subway for the city. The shaft opening is forty feet wide and sixty feet long with 150-ton-capacity crane. It also has four tubes, two for the subway system and two for the ...