Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

It was 1870 and New York City was experiencing growing pains.

The roads and streets had been built for the occasional coach, carriage, rider and foot

traffic, not the 700,000 residents.

With the influx of people moving in droves from other countries and various corners of

America, the streets were pretty much as they are today.

Pact.

To alleviate congestion, the city employed streetcars and omnibus is drawn by draft

horses in teams of six, even then traffic moved at a crawl.

Horses bulked or spooked with the noise and crowds and carriages broke down.

A smell of leather and horses and manure was overwhelming.

Tired and frustrated, people's tempers grew thin, fights began to break out.

And then one cold February morning, New York had a subway system, as in overnight.

You see, Alfred Ealy Beach and a team of men worked while the city slept.

Over a two-month period, they tunneled underground, carving out a 312-foot section between Broadway

and Warren Street, men above ground loaded up carts of dirt while others unloaded equipment.

It wasn't that no one heard the carriages, but everyone thought that construction was for

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