Barry Baldwin started as a machine operator with Chase Manhattan Bank in the early 1970s. After working for the financial giant, Barry Baldwin went on to work for the New York City Transit Authority some years later for 27 years before retiring. Recently, the NYC Transit Authority celebrated a milestone with other New Yorkers when one of its busiest tunnels, the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, turned 70 in May this year.
Now a part of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the NYC Transit Authority constructed the tunnel in 1940 finishing it almost a decade later due to shortages in steel and iron during World War II. The Tunnel is considered to be the longest underwater tunnel in North America spanning 1.7 miles underneath East River connecting Brooklyn (Red Hook section) to Lower Manhattan. Since its opening in the 1950s, the bridge has been seen as a vital link between the two locations. Originally called the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, the name was changed in 2012 to Hugh L. Carey Tunnel to venerate the state’s fifty-first governor who served from 1975 to 1982. After 70 years, the bridge is still frequented by many New Yorkers because, in 2019 alone, over 19.4 million people traveled through the tunnel.
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