Jennifer Toth - The Mole People

Ali M. (mayor), 195–96, 198, 199–200, 202

on light, 195

reasons for seeing author, 191–92

on writing, 201

All Saints’ Soup Kitchen, 90, 95, 96

April, 206, 207, 209, 211

Armenians, 36

Armory shelter, 57

Association for Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment (ADAPT), 70, 151, 155–63, 167

Deamues’s work with, 67, 84, 158–59, 160, 161, 162, 163

final report of, 157, 162

on Project HELP, 152–53

Auden, W. H., 61

Bacon, Francis, 172

Bass, Gary, 56

Baum, Alice, 40

Beach, Alfred Ely, 45

Beard, Richard, 50

Beckford, William, 171

Beeper, 206, 209, 210, 211

Bellevue Hospital, 56, 57, 155

Bernard’s tunnel, 75, 97–118. See also Isaacs, Bernard

Bethea, Michael, 67, 152, 153, 156–58

optimistic views of, 162–63

Big D, 12

Bill, 91–92, 93

Bingo, 186, 188, 189

Blade, 5, 237–47

on anger, 238–39

background, 239

depth of character, 237–38

and the Harlem gang, 183, 184, 185, 187, 188, 190

on killing, 242

BMT. See Brooklyn Manhattan Transit (BMT)

Bob, 88, 105–9, 237, 249

Boggs, Joyce (Billy), 154

Borges, Jorge Luis, 171

Bowery, 49–58

history of, 49–50

Romero on, 51–54

Brenda, 116, 117, 213–19, 249

Bridges, Jeff, 216

Broadway-Lafayette Station, 54

Bronze Age, 36

Brooklyn Bridge Station, 131

Brooklyn Manhattan Transit (BMT), 45

Brown, Claude, 201, 202

Buckley, Rob, 90–91, 95–96

on underground communities, 91, 94

“Burma’s Road,” 47

Burnes, Donald, 40

“Burrow, The”(Kafka), 169

Butch (Brenda’s boyfriend), 116, 117

Butch (tunnel birth observer), 78, 79, 80

Buxton, Derbyshire, 37

Candy, 18

Cannibalistic Human Underground Dwellers (CHUDS), 74, 205

Carlos, 137, 138, 140–41

on hope, 148–49

Castleman, Craig, 134

Cathy and Joe, 225–26

Central Park, 192, 213, 215, 216, 234, 245

Cher, 229–30, 233

children underground, 77–86

adaptability of, 84

in J.C.’s community, 82

Julie, 82–84

Teresa’s family, 84–86

Chitthum, Samme, 99

Chud, 205, 206

CHUDS. See Cannibalistic Human Underground Dwellers (CHUDS)

Cimmerians, 35–36

Cindy, 24–25

”city of friends,” 203–11

and Rex, 209–210

and Sam, 207–9, 210–11

Coalition for the Homeless, 88, 104. See also homeless advocates; tunnel outreach

Columbia University, 1, 2

“Condos, the,” 20–21, 47

Henry’s discovery of, 66–67

Covenant House, 136, 140, 145

Creation (Michelangelo), 125

Crimeans, 36

Crump, Daniel, 161

Dale, 56

Dameon, 137

Dante, 170

Dara, 84, 85, 86

Dark Angel, 165–68

Jamall on, 234

Dart, 187, 188

David, 136–37, 138

Deamues, Harold: on children underground, 84

on the Dark Angel, 167–68

on the mole people, 159, 161

work with ADAPT, 67, 84, 158–59, 160, 161, 162, 163

Demetrius (”Taki 183”), 132

Denise, 57

Dericka, 223, 224

de Sant-Fond, Faugas, 37

Dickens, Charles, 173

Dirty Slug, 129, 133

Doc (Fabulous Five member), 129, 133

Doc (Harlem gang member), 186, 188, 189

Dolly, 145–46, 148, 250

Don, 109–10

Dopey, 209

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 176, 177

Douglas Housing Project, 224

Dunsley Rock (Gibraltar), England, 36–37

Dwane, 84, 85

Dwayne, 89

Dwyer, Jim, 44

Edwards, Dee, 88

Eleanor Kennedy shelter, Fairfax, Virginia, 40

Eliot, George, 173

Ellison, Ralph, 177

Fabulous Five, 129–31

Farrell, Neil, 49, 57

Fay, 206, 210

Felicia, 138–39, 143–44, 146, 147

Fisher King, The , 215

Flacko, 11, 26

Flip, 111, 112

Fort Washington shelter, 56, 57, 116

Fran and Shorty, 225

Frank (runaway), 141–42, 143, 146, 148, 250

Frank (Virginia’s boyfriend), 95–96

Franko, 23

Fred, 79

Frederick, 135–39, 249

”Freedom.” See Pape, Chris (”Freedom”)

Freud, Sigmund, 173–74

Garner, Robert, 36–37

Gayle, Kristen, 1–2, 82–83

George (Blade’s associate), 243, 244

George (”city of friends” resident), 204–5, 206, 207, 211

Getting Up: Subway Graffiti in New York (Castleman), 134

Ghost, 51

”Ghost Cliff,” 234

Gissing, George, 173

Goya, Francisco José de, 126

graffiti artists. See graffiti writings and writers; tunnel art and artists

graffiti writings and writers, 119, 121, 122, 127, 129–34

Fabulous Five, 129–31. See also tunnel art and artists

Grand Central Station, 3, 4, 57, 84, 122, 151, 161, 219

estimate of underground population, 39

evictions from, 47

J.C.’s community under, 61, 82, 191–202

Williams’s residence under, 12, 13, 19, 21, 23, 26–27

Granick, Harry, 43, 46

Guardian Angels, 230, 239n.

Guernica (Picasso), 126

Hammer, 48

Harlem gang, 183–90

Hector, 99–101

HELP. See Homeless Emergency Liaison Project (HELP)

Henry, Sergeant Bryan, 5, 12, 43, 59–63, 65–67, 82

and “the Condos,” 21, 66–67

on the Dark Angel, 166–67

frustration experienced by, 59–61

initial meeting with author, 3–4

and J.C., 61 63, 66

and Michelle, 219–20

photograph of, 60

Williams on, 26

History of Graffiti (Pape), 125

homeless advocates, 4–5, 40, 104–5. See also Coalition for the Homeless; tunnel outreach

Homeless Credo, 109

Homeless Emergency Liaison Project (HELP), 151–55

HRA. See New York City Human Resources Administration

Hudson Street, 49–50

Hugo, Victor, 172, 173

“human morality,” 209

“human religion,” 209

Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT), 183, 184

International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences , 89

Invisible Man (Ellison), 177–79

Iris, 16–18

IRT. See Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT)

Isaacs, Bernard, 5, 88–89, 249

and Bob, 88, 105–9

on David, 137

and Don, 109–10

and Flip, 111

and Hector, 99–101

on homeless advocacy groups, 104–5

and John, 113–15

photograph of, 118

on the Rotunda community, 94

and Sheila, 226, 227

and Shorty, 225

source of income, 102–3, 107

and Tim, 110–11

and Tom, 116–17

and Tony, 111–13

and tunnel art and artists, 119–20, 124–25, 126, 127

tunnel community of, 75, 97–118

on underground people, 117

Israely, Beverly, 90

Jamaica, 189

Jamall, 166, 168, 229–35

Japan, 38

J.C., 4, 89

community of, 82, 191–202

and Henry, 61–63, 66

Jeff, 147, 148

Jeffers, Chris, 107–8

Jess, 221

Jesus, 103

Jimmy, 144–45, 146, 147, 148

Joe, 50–51

Joey, 112, 113

John, 113–15, 249

Journey to the Center of the Earth, A (Verne), 174

Juan, 78

Julie, 1, 2, 77, 82–84

Kafka, Franz, 169

Klambatsen, Sergeant Steve, 54, 55

Lady Pink, 132

Lafayette Street Station, 47

LaJoy, 69–70

law and underground homeless, the, 59–71

police brutality stories, 63–64

and social workers, 67–69

Lee, 129–30, 131, 132–34

Leon, 101

Lexington Avenue Line, 55, 244

Little Man, 182

Logan, Al, 53, 54

London, 38

Los Angeles Times, The, 4

Mac, 29–34, 249

Malcolm, 13