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Tunnel Construction Frame Color:Gold ' was not only aThe Brooklyn Battery Tunnel is eerily quiet as construction remains halted because supplies and manpower have been diverted to America's war effort overseas. On this day, September 20, 1944, the city's Tunnel Authority offered reporters and photographers a first hand look inside one of the idle twin tubes. The tunnel, which connects the Red Hook in Brooklyn to Battery Park in Manhattan, was started in 1940. It had to wait out World War II, unfinished,