What's inside the windowless AT&T/NSA spying hub in lower Manhattan?

Don’t spoil thing with facts. Same goes for @glenblank & @ficuswhisperer

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Chinatown isn’t far away either. They are in on it, too!

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Does Queens count? TWA terminal at JFK.

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Well, it used to be. Before it got turned into a hotel lobby.

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I heard about that, but I haven’t been inside since TWA still existed and was operating it.

Battery Maritime Building?

Bailey Mansion in Harlem?

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It’s where the NSA stores all the windows they’ve removed from buildings over the years.

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We’ll see how it all turns out, but I’m not super confident.

We’ll also see how the Maritime Building turns out too, there may be too much rust to make it into anything more useful than the Governor’s Island ferry terminal.

The Bailey house, an unexpected classic out of left field! Great interior. What an era.

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My sources tell me that the 12th floor is reserved for Area 51 artifacts.

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AT&T is the government’s most active spying partner.

Although, people in the telecom industry seem to have known this for a long time. 2002-2005, I worked for a small ISP and the various engineers I met all had stories about how lots of places they’d worked had a room everyone colloquially referred to as “The FBI Closet”.

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Suspiciously devoid of graffiti. Does it open up and eat potential defacers?

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There’s history going all the way back to Western Union and Postal Telegraph cooperation with the military during WWI. As “secret” as it all was supposed to be, people in the industry have always been aware on some level.

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dunno, not many pyramidal features

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Or like a prison for a solar powered alien. :sun_with_face:

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if only the adjustment bureau

I’m walking distance from there right now… cackles manically

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A rare interior shot

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See also point 2 from a previous post

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