He felt the change of pressure as he went under the East River.

I remember, as a reviewer in the 1980's, crossing under the East River and into a different, now vanished world.

The service was restored for commuters who pass through tunnels under the East River.

Also, several of the system's tunnels under the East River were flooded by the storm surge.

Not long ago, when a fire broke out at a station downtown, his train sat under the East River for an hour.

You know - where the tunnel begins under the East River.

I paid cash at the booth and entered the long tunnel under the East River.

It then runs under the East River and into Queens.

But they differ in how they would get under the East River.

It has been this way for most of the 20th century, ever since train tunnels under the East River connected the two islands in 1910.