Brooklyn Battery-Tunnel

People tend to forget that this tunnel take an amorous amount of cars every day!
When the completed the construction early this year, everything is going so much smoother.
Tip: if you are using it during the weekend, or late at night, check the traffic. They are often closing a lame or few for maintenance, and the taking the tunnel can become a nightmare!

Here is a fact for you
The Brooklyn Battery is the longest tunnel in the North American region. Don’t believe me… Look it up! I use this tunnel to get to the city faster because their is always traffic trying to cross the Brooklyn, Manhattan or Williamsburg Bridge!

Awesome to see especially since it was in the MiB movie. Would have loved to go inside. From the island you can see the statue of Liberty as well.

As the day slowly progresses… all I can think about is going home to my bed…
The Brooklyn-​Battery Tunnel… at the southern tip of Manhattan… goes to Brooklyn where it connects with the Brooklyn-​Queens Expressway (I-​278 East of the tunnel)…the Gowanus Expressway (I-​278 West of the tunnel)…and the Prospect Expressway… which runs south towards Ocean Parkway to Coney Island…

People get ticked off, genuinely angry when someone tries to defy the public’s expectations for them. You’re an actor? Don’t you dare pick up a guitar. Put it down. PUT IT DOWN. Stick to what you do, who you are. But therein lies the underlying great fallacy. What you do is not always who you are. Personally I respect those who do 2 things. Or 2 thangs. The list is long and prestigious. Dick Feynman — champ scientist and master safecracker (he also played a mean bongo drum, so that’s three things). Stan Fischler, foremost expert on subways and hockey. Thomas Pakenham, the best historian for African history as well as the world’s finest tree enthusiast. Cass Gilbert didn’t only design skyscrapers, he was a bridgeman to boot. Albert Lamorisse directed the famous film, The Red Balloon. He also invented the game Risk. Claude Shannon came up with information theory and was a terrific juggler. It’s not only men either. Hedy Lamaar was a brilliant mathematician as well as an actress.
When the floods came a few years ago, this tunnel transformed into a subterranean canal. Two talents. Two skills. It’s no accident. The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel is part of a grand legacy of doing two things and doing them pretty damn well.

I lost count on number of times I’ve taken Brooklyn-​Battery Tunnel. For many years, via Express bus from Staten Island to Manhattan, and later on my faithful Prius to work locations.
It been a timesaver, always. Yes, Brooklyn Bridge is free, but that is also the reason it always a parking lot.
There is something futuristically freaky about longest underwater tunnel in North America — the turns, the lights, the narrow lanes. Nah, they not that narrow — if Express buses can fit in here, so am I. I still get goose bumps when I drive thru, tho. Even I know it is solid. It survived World War II and being completely flooded by Sandy, after all…
*Plus, Men in Black HQ are located in ventilation shafts, so it is as safe as it gets. (Yes, I had to bring that up again, right? But it’s not my fault they occupy all NY major tunnels!)*

this tunnel is literally freaky.
I swear the lanes are so thin, and they have these dividers that i’m always scared of hitting. I feel very claustrophobic in here.
Definitely prefer the Brooklyn Bridge, which is out in the open, and free.

When you choose to take this tunnel, You’ve usually made up your mind from the start of your trip and you can either have a pleasant trip in or out the city, or you can be in for a snarled, stinky, polluted disaster that will just eat up your time and patience. Do yourself a favor and save yourself the toll and possible aggravation of some silly lane closure or complete failure of operation.
Take the Brooklyn Bridge.

This is a tunnel of luxury. You can avoid this tunnel and stay on the BQE to get off Brooklyn Bridge. If you’re running late often, the fine is $ 5.50, and it will bring you right onto the West Side Highway.
Great for when traffic is backed up for hours on the BQE and you’re in a life or death time crunch.
I find myself paying the toll more and more as the years go by. Maybe I’m making more, maybe I just don’t have the patience to deal with traffic. Either way, it gets the job done.
Crazy part is that the toll is two ways.

One tunnel is as good as another.