Cow Tunnels Under 12th Avenue%0AIf you think traffic is bad in New York today, just imagine what it was like getting stuck on 12th Avenue thanks to a herd of cows crossing the street. Long before Chelsea and the Meatpacking District were cleaned up, the area became so overrun with cows heading to the slaughterhouses that it was necessary to come up with a solution to keep them out of the way. Though cow tunnels are often believed to be an urban legend, it’s been proven that they existed at…

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From "New York", photography by Bernard Hermann, text by Gilbert Millstein, 1977