The Mole People
Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City

oh, jennifer toth, you annoy the shit out of me. how can you take a fascinating topic: the homeless of new york city; a study in ingenuity and survival skills and people living in highly-organized communities off the grid underground and somehow make the story all about you?? you!! some sheltered whi......more

"Tribes" of people living in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels of New York City. Their stories are both heart breaking and uplifting...revealing truths about society as a whole that many of us may wish remained hidden. This would be a very good book for anyone involved in trying to address th......more

An engrossing, enlightening, often heartbreaking, and sometimes questionable account of the homeless individuals in New York City who live below ground in the simultaneously safe and dangerous abandoned train and subway tunnels throughout the 1980s and into the early '90s, all from the viewpoint of......more

That the subject matter of this book was interesting outside of anything the author said was the only thing that saved it I think. She did a pretty poor job of enlightening the aboveground world to the plight of the underground homeless in new york city. Mostly she strung together superficial sketch......more

I'm having a hard time rating this book, even weeks after finishing it. I don't even know what it is that has me so conflicted: it's well-researched and required great personal risks by the author (Jennifer Toth was only 24 when she wrote it, and climbing around the tunnels under New York, talking t......more