Once the archetype of underground, downtown style, the East Village is doing some soul searching (some might say "selling") these days.

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Once the biggest and best-organised underground military force in Nazi-occupied Europe, it was hounded to destruction by the Soviets.

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But for shale gas, once the drill reaches the shale rock underground, the drill bit is turned horizontally to bore a well that stretches through the natural gas producing shale.

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Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground.

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But authorities said Jeff Bush's body will remain in its final resting place, trapped underground where the house his family lived in for generations once stood.

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Uniform grooves across its craters and ridges hint at a global network of underground layers, which Cheng says could indicate Eros was once part of a larger body.

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