Ripple effect of NY Times Underground Railroad article

Published two days ago, the story by the New York Times became one of the most emailed articles for a moment:



You can also view the 9-minute NY Times video here. The Times coverage created a small wave of blog coverage:

• History News Network: On the Trail of Brooklyn’s Underground Railroad
  
  
• NoLandGrabl: On the Trail of Brooklyn’s Underground Railroad
  
  
• Vanity Dark: And now for a little Bklyn History
  
  
• Curbed: Friday AM Linkage
  
  
• captain_maybe: history/gentrification
  

Of course, this blog scooped everyone with an 11-second video of the making the NY Times article. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdarlGXuse8 for a short movie of the photographer climbing into the space that was either a coal shaft or a tunnel for escaping slaves.