Last month, giant drill bits emerged from the ground near Tower Bridge in London and Brooklyn Bridge in New York.
Then, Victorian-style cast-iron telescopes were installed.
At long last, the dream of Victorian engineer Alexander Stanhope St George, of a visual link between the two cities via a tunnel beneath the Atlantic, was complete. Londoners and New Yorkers could see each other face to face in real time!
Or perhaps it’s a broadband video link.
Either way, it’s pretty cool. I’ve been meaning to have a closer look for ages, and it’s only there till the weekend, so I stopped off this morning to have a peek at New York. Even at 10.30 in the morning (5.30 in NY) there were quite a few people waving back at me.
If you’re near Brooklyn Bridge, go and have a look - it’s pretty neat. (Same goes for Londoners - the UK end is just near City Hall.)
That’s pretty cool, but a tunnel under the Atlantic would’ve been cooler. I’ll be in NYC in about two weeks so we should have some sort of bizarro London-NYC Dopefest. We can meet at a particular time and wear tinfoil hats to identify ourselves. I’d prefer it to be nighttime in NYC so us 'merkins can do some drinking beforehand.
I saw it a few weeks ago. London was very rainy, and it was the middle of the night there, but there were still a handful of people waving (and one guy gesturing rudely). Very fun concept.
