The remote New York City subway tunnel that still bears the dust of the 9/11 attacks

Recently, it was the 24th anniversary of the horrific terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, perpetrated by Al Qaeda against the United States.

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The man who lived for more than 20 years in a railway tunnel beneath New York

During those attacks, New York's famous Twin Towers were hit by two commercial airliners that had been hijacked by terrorists. Something similar happened at the Pentagon, the building that serves as headquarters for the US Department of Defense. The fire and the fall of the Twin Towers generated a huge cloud of smoke and toxic dust that emitted 400 tons of asbestos and other toxic substances, affecting between 410,000 and 525,000 people, causing respiratory illnesses and other health problems.

That dust cloud reached 1 mile (1.6 km) high and carried people 44 miles (70.8 km) from Ground Zero, as the site of the Twin Towers was called at the time of the attack. Of course, that dust also made its way into the tunnels of the New York City Subway. Despite 24 years having passed, that dust is still hidden in a deep, uncrowded part of that subway system, specifically in places that are no longer used and rarely visited.

A few days ago, LTV Squad Urban Exploring: Train Decay, a YouTube channel specializing in urban exploration related to railways, published an interesting video in which a man who was in New York on the day of the attacks and was affected by the toxic cloud talks about a tunnel where the dust is still deposited. The video, quite appropriately, does not show how to access the tunnel.

The video description states: "MTA employees and Urban Explorers have known about this site for two decades, critically analyzing what is known and what remains to be resolved."

You can see a screenshot from the video here, showing that the base of the tunnel is covered in grayish water. This color is believed to be due to the dust that had settled there after the 9/11 attacks. The video's creator shows photos taken over the years in the tunnel, and in all of them, the dust deposited inside is visible.

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Main image: LTV Squad Urban Exploring: Train Decay.