Carving a Concert 'Cave' Under Carnegie Hall

摘要

It's been dubbed Carnegie Hole and Carnegie Hell. Wedged between bedrock and a delicate place—New York City's landmark concert hall—the dank, dark jobsite deserves its nicknames. Drilling, gouging, pounding and blasting 6,900 cu yd of mica schist from a filthy, noisy cave and launching its transformation into a state-of-the-art concert hall is like piecing together a Swiss watch in a mine while the band plays on.