If you've been on the Queens Midtown Tunnel or the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel recently, you may have noticed the installation of handsome bronze flood gates.
In the many years since its groundbreaking, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel remains just as vital to New York City as it did when it first opened to traffic.
Alongside a wall of tenement brick, shrubbery, and barbed wire at the Midtown Tunnel hangs a beautiful original tunnels street sign from the 1940s,
We're rounding up some of New York's most functionally (and thus not creatively) named streets: Aviation Road, Tunnel Approach & Exit Streets, Extra Place