Tunnel People (Dutch title: Tunnelmensen) is an anthropological-journalistic account describing an underground homeless community in New York City.

Most slept on the streets or in shelters, but a small group of them went underground and took refuge in the huge system of subway and train tunnels.

One of the biggest and most accessible groups of these homeless people lived in part of the Amtrak tunnel, which runs for 50 blocks under Manhattan’s Riverside Park.

However, few of the journalists spent much time underground and some produced stories which lacked the necessary intimate knowledge of their subjects to be completely accurate.

[3][4] The tunnel people were evicted in 1996, but Amtrak and homeless organizations were able, with support from the federal government,[5] to develop a plan that would offer them alternative housing.

Contrary to popular assumptions, the homeless in the tunnel do not primarily resort to begging, but have developed quite sophisticated ways to generate income.

In this last edition he added a few new chapters in which he tracks down most tunnel dwellers and described what happened with them in the thirteen years since the original book was published.