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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book would not have been possible without the cooperation and incredible kindness of many people. Of course, I am mostly indebted and extremely grateful to the tunnel people who allowed me inside their lives: Bernard, Bob, Tony, Frankie, Ment, Fatima, Maria, Joe, Kathy, Hugo, Poncho, Estoban, Getulio, and Ozzy. Marcus, Lee, Julio, and José: rest in peace and may you find up in Heaven the tranquility and peace you tried so hard to find down in the tunnels…
Captain Bryan Henry from Metro North Police; Guy Polhemus from WeCan; Perry Chester Taylor from MTA; Mike Harris from the Coalition for the Homeless; Eric Roth from Bowery Residents Committee; Victoria Mason-Ailey and Sharry Siegel from MTA/Connections; Doris Combs and Richard Rubel from Amtrak; Dov Waisman, Stephanie Cowles and Ivy Raff from Project Renewal; Keith Cylar from Housing Works; Helen Greer and Shari Blackmon from Project HELP; Rev. William Robinson from Pete’s Place; Thomas Main from Baruch University, thanks for all your help and sharing your expertise with me.
My fellow tunnel scholars Terry Williams, Marc Singer, Margaret Morton, Jennifer Toth, Sabine Guez and Chris Pape, thanks for all the inspiration and encouragement. Andrew Lichtenstein, Matthew Septimus, Robert Pledge, Louis Zaal, Marc de Haan, Jane Welna, Marcia Dover, thanks so much for your photographic advice. Richard, Christine, Arnold and Maryze, Nasser, Sebastian and Daniela, Pierre and Abi, Maria, Nancy, Jackie and Meredith, Keith and Katrin, all the folks at the Carlton Arms Hotel, thanks for making my New York life a bit easier…
Gert Van Langendock, Linda Polman and Charlotte Zwemmer were instrumental in cleaning the first, very sloppy draft of the manuscript. The Dutch Foundation for Special Journalistic Projects supported the first edition of the book—so did the unflappable Mrs. Zwemmer! And it was Emile Brugman from Atlas Publishers who pushed me actually to write a book. The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature helped me with this American edition.
I want to thanks all the folks from PM Press who had the courage—and hopefully the wisdom—to take on my book in the American edition. Andrea Gibbons put an amazing amount of time in the book and brilliantly transformed my Dutch-English into American-English…