Photographer and filmmaker Charles le Brigand took a walk inside the Freedom Tunnel, an Amtrack train passage running under Riverside Park on Upper West Side, and shot the beautiful video above.
Under Manhattan’s Upper West side, runs the “Freedom” Tunnel. Built in the 30’s by Robert Moses, the passage boasts legendary graffiti murals and piles of debris remaining of the past homeless city era.» Follow NYC The Blog on Facebook and Twitter. Video credit: Charles le Brigand/Vimeo
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Chris Pape, aka Freedom, was one of the pioneers and his work inspired the name of the tunnel. “Freedom” painted immense murals utilizing the unique lighting provided by the ventilation ducts, turning the tunnel into an extraordinary underground art gallery. Some of his most notable paintings survived for decades and are still conspicuous today (“Venus de Milo”, the “Coca-Cola Mural”, Dali’s “Melting Clock”,a self-portrait featuring a male torso with a spray-can head, etc.).
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