Not long after you pass through turnstiles and enter the New York Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn, you’re greeted by photos of workers who created and maintained the city’s transit system. The sandhogs, tracklayers, construction workers and more who dug and excavated and built the city's underground infrastructure in the late 19th and early 20th century take center stage.
It was largely immigrant workers who undertook the dangerous, often deadly work and, in the case of the sandhogs who mined all of the city’s underground tunnels, formed strong unions to fight for safety protections.
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