Homeless Man Built A Remarkable Secret Tunnel Under NYC Subway

The resourcefulness of some people never ceases to amaze me. It’s a lack of material that inspires creativity. Remember that scene in Apollo 13 where the engineers have to figure out how to make a working carbon dioxide scrubber from the materials on board the capsule? Talk about inspiring. And that really happened, saving the lives of three astronauts! Don’t you wish you had the imagination and the knowledge to pull off something like that? They’re the real MacGyvers!

Of course, we can’t all be NASA engineers. But we’re all engineers in our own homes. We love to tinker with them, whether we make small tweaks here and there or rip up the floors and move a wall. Home is what you make it, no matter where you make it.

How desperate would you have to be to live below the subway in New York City? It seems almost sub-human to be relegated to a life underground, out of the light and constantly interrupted by the roaring and shaking of trains. And yet, that’s how one man has chosen to live, and although on the surface it looks like he’s in a rough way, on closer inspection, it’s not all bad.

He’s certainly made the most of his spot under the subway. He has electricity, a gas cooker, and a mini-fridge. The mailman might not visit, but he also doesn’t pay rent living down there, and when you consider what this space would cost in even a lowly tenement in New York, you almost envy the guy. And it sure beats sleeping on the streets!

What do you think? Would you live here?