Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel entrance and Battery Park, Manhattan

Aerial view of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel entrance and Battery Park, Manhattan. Photograph by Angelo Rizzuto (1906-1967) taken in November 1953. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel, officially Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, opened on May 25, 1950. It connects Red Hook in Brooklyn with the Battery in the southern tip of Manhattan. The tunnel consists of twin tubes that each carry two traffic lanes under the mouth of the East River. It is the longest continuous underwater vehicular tunnel in North America, with a length of 9,117 feet (2,779 m). More: New York in the 1950s ►