Just Put That Right On Top
So when the plague decimated a good chunk of Edinburgh's population a few hundred years ago, the city opted to evict some of the under-dwellers and build enormous structures right on top of their homes. As a result, you can take tours of the "Old City," which is underneath the current one. The most famous of these tours explores Mary King's Close.
Now, I don't know if New York City had the plague, too, but apparently, building on top of old structures was very big here for a while, too, as this project by the MTA has proven for the second time now.
The most unbelievable part of the whole story is that the MTA says the building project will remain on budget. The MTA doesn't do anything on budget, unless they've cooked the books. What a bunch of assholes.
Labels: New York
posted by Dan G @ 8:58 AM
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3 Comments:
Mary King's Close - Have you been there? It looks fascinating.
Yeah, I went. The place is really cool. But one thing they do in Scotland that's sort of annoying is dramatize tours. So you're being led by a woman who claims to be from the 1500's and blah, blah, blah, which makes it cheesy. Bullshit ghost stories, etc. That said, it's still pretty interesting.
I think it would have been a much richer experience if, in a burst of versimillitude, you'd walled her inside her house as a precaution against the plague.
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