Last night I was watching a program on the history channel, in which they explored the underground and underworld of Istanbul, Turkey, and then NYC. The program is Cities of the Underworld and it’s fascinating, although the host is overly animated about 25% of the time. The episode discussed, among other things, the secret power-plant – the nerve center of NYC’s subway system – and a Nazi plot to take it out, crippling the U.S. war mobilization effort, and a now abandoned platform under the Waldorf-Astoria rumored to have been used by then President F.D. Roosevelt into and out of the city without revealing his infirmity. A train would depart Washington D.C., with an armored car carrying his Pierce-Arrow limousine, a few hours later it would arrive under the … Read entire article »