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Awesome MTA Blast Video From East Side Access Project

"Since March 7, 2007, nearly 1,000 employees working 24 hours a day, five days a week, have completed more than 2,400 controlled blasts."

Jen Chung

News

Planned Explosion For 2nd Ave Subway Goes Overboard, Showers UES With Debris

One bystander says, "I almost got cracked by like a 50 lb boulder."

John Del Signore

News

Watch A Massive Explosion Rock The Second Avenue Subway Project

Watch something explode on a massive scale, all at the push of a button.

John Del Signore

News

Sandhog Embezzler's Ex Says She Wasn't Always So Greedy

The first husbad of a tunnel worker's union administrator who embezzled millions of dollars from the union and used it to finance her extravagant lifestyle says she used to be down-to-earth.

Rebecca Fishbein

News

Video: Boom Goes The Croton Water Filtration Plant

Now that you've seen these beautiful photos of the city's sandhogs, here's

Jaya Saxena

Arts & Entertainment

Photos: Sandhogs Working On City Water Tunnel 3

The DEP has been working hard on City Water Tunnel 3, a

Jaya Saxena

News

Woman Charged With Embezzling MIllions From Sandhogs

Melissa King, who handled management of the Sandhogs union's benefits plan,

Jen Chung

Arts & Entertainment

Ryan McGinty, Sandhog

Ryan McGinty is a sandhog, a construction worker (or urban miner) who

Jen Chung

Arts & Entertainment

Sandhogs, NYPD Detectives on TV Tonight

Photograph of sandhobs 80 feet beneath the ground--near Van Cortlandt Park

Jen Chung

Arts & Entertainment

Sandhogs Under New York

Starting this September the History Channel will be airing their new series,

Jen Carlson

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