Queens–Midtown Queens-Midtown Tunnel was first planned in 1921, though the plans for the tunnel were modified over the following years.
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18 Facts About Queens-Midtown Tunnel
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Queens-Midtown Tunnel was once designated as part of New York State Route 24.
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Queens-Midtown Tunnel contains two ventilation buildings, one on each side of the East River.
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Queens–Midtown Queens-Midtown Tunnel was originally proposed in 1921 by Manhattan's borough president, Julius Miller.
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The groups proposed that the Queens–Midtown Queens-Midtown Tunnel connect with the Midtown Hudson Queens-Midtown Tunnel, which would cross the Hudson River and continue westward to New Jersey.
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Advocates of the Triborough Queens-Midtown Tunnel opposed the construction of surface-level exit plazas, saying that the mixing plaza would force motorists to briefly drive along the narrow side streets.
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The Queens–Midtown Queens-Midtown Tunnel Authority applied for a federal loan and grant, worth a combined $58.
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Work on the Queens–Midtown Queens-Midtown Tunnel could start as soon as the city received the federal funds.
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The Queens-Midtown Tunnel Authority accepted the grant in March 1936, and the Queens–Midtown Queens-Midtown Tunnel became the United States' largest public works project that was not supervised by a federal agency.
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Queens-Midtown Tunnel Authority approved plans for the Queens–Midtown Queens-Midtown Tunnel in August 1936, and the Authority's chief engineer, Ole Singstad, was tasked with the project's design.
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Shortly afterward, the New York City Queens-Midtown Tunnel Authority awarded the first contracts for the tunnel's construction.
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Additionally, sandhogs digging the Queens–Midtown Queens-Midtown Tunnel would have to avoid accidental damage to the East River railroad tunnels to the south and the Steinway Queens-Midtown Tunnel to the north.
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The next month, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel Authority had accepted a bid for the Midtown ventilation shaft, and it had been authorized to begin the shaft's construction immediately.
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Queens-Midtown Tunnel was opened to the general public on November 15,1940, at a ceremony on the Queens side.
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Nine years later, Robert Moses proposed adding a third tube to the Queens–Midtown Queens-Midtown Tunnel to relieve congestion, with a possible extension to Brooklyn.
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Queens-Midtown Tunnel affirmed that the TBTA would construct a third tube for the Queens–Midtown Tunnel because it did not require the city's approval, and he stated that the new tube could be completed four-and-a-half years after construction started.
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The first "Animal Walk" through the Queens–Midtown Queens-Midtown Tunnel memorialized a similar event ten years earlier, when the animals had walked to Manhattan through the Lincoln Queens-Midtown Tunnel due to a railroad strike.
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Queens-Midtown Tunnel carries 21 express bus routes; sixteen of these routes use the tunnel for westbound travel only.
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