Mole People: Life in the Tunnels beneath New York City by Jennifer Toth, Chris Pape (Illustrator), Margaret Morton (Photographer)

A fascinating journey thru a world most will never have the opportunity to visitby Anonymous

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August 29, 2009: You knew there was something under the streets of NYC, however, none could have imagined the depth "The Mole People" discloses. A city under the city, under the city, and perhaps another level below this is a facinating look at some of the greatest survivors of modern day. The people with whom you come in contact are just as intresting and alive as those who walk the streets, live in the apartments, work in the office buidlings,ride the rails and travel the busy streets above ground in NYC each day.

This book takes us on a fascinating journey thru a world most of us would be fearful of visiting. I am so happy I made the trip.

Marginalization and Levels Within the Deepest Levels of Destitutionby Anonymous

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February 22, 2009: Author/journalist takes one on a tour under one of the richest cities in the world, New York City (Manhattan), to see the lifestyle of thousands of the most impoverished types (mainly US citizens) from all walks of life whose lifespan in that domain is often less than six years. Within the tunnels are deeper and deeper levels, and those that live in the deepest sections have lost the vocal ability to even communicate except in grunts or so as the author states. Some of these underground dwellers are artists, some with advanced, fancy accredited USA university degrees that once held nice jobs, others are divorcees, families without jobs, and so on. Many of these dwellers state they were marginalized by society and did not choose that way of life but were pushed into it, and that lack of jobs and affordable housing, as well as every day NYC stress, made it more possible and easier for them to live in the tunnels. The more they live in those conditions, the less they are inclined to find better opportunities the book suggests, as they more easily rapidly adapt to their substandard living conditions in order to survive those immediate horrible conditions (but die early anyway) than try to make better for themselves and get out in the sun and live as humans.