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More specifically, it’s a window between London and New York City, and it’s called the Telectroscope. It claims to be a tunnel, buried through the earth, connecting the two cities. If you stand on one side in Brooklyn, you can see out the other end, in London City Hall.
It isn’t quite the first of its kind. In 2003, people began to talk about a system called ”˜Tholos,’ which aimed to network the cities of the world. Huge cylindrical screens would connect London to Vienna, Warsaw to Copenhagen, New York to Shanghai. But Tholos never got off the ground – whereas the Telectroscope goes straight through it.
Brits and New Yorkers alike have been waving hello for over a week now. The Telectroscope is an ”˜art project,’ running for a mere month. As the story goes, the ”˜tunnel’ was begun a hundred years ago, by the artist’s great-grandfather, Alexander Stanhope St. George. The reality is actually just some high-speed broadband – but the tunnel story is more fun.