TIL, thanks! My first thought was that it might’ve been a telephony exchange center, data center, or other networking infrastructure hub. There’s a building in my city colloquially referred to as “the bunker” built with a similar hardened brutalist style that houses all the main network trunk connections for our state.
Lots of high voltage and inductors which effect local magnetic fields. Probably not too many permanent magnets though, you can see the same thing at local switching stations of you try.
My father worked for Western Electric, the part of the Bell System that handled wiring this building (and others). I’m pretty sure he worked there, at least for a while. The amount of copper wire in that building is astronomical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
TIL, thanks! My first thought was that it might’ve been a telephony exchange center, data center, or other networking infrastructure hub. There’s a building in my city colloquially referred to as “the bunker” built with a similar hardened brutalist style that houses all the main network trunk connections for our state.
Fun fact: there are some big magnets in there. I have a compass on my backpack and it had a lot of trouble when I passed that building.
Might that not be a case of the building having a monster concentration of ferrous metal?
It’s not Gina have a solid iron core or anything, even if it’s meant to be bombproof, it’s mostly going to be reinforced concrete.
Could be that the NSA messes with GPS signals there too thwart drones.
I was under the impression that it’s an old Bell Telephone trunk/exchange, that has since been repurposed by a federal alphabet soup as a data center.
Lots of high voltage and inductors which effect local magnetic fields. Probably not too many permanent magnets though, you can see the same thing at local switching stations of you try.
Interesting, thanks for the info. I’d always wondered what was causing that.
It would be cool if you could share a video of that
Sadly, I didn’t take one and I don’t live in NYC anymore.
Ah makes sense. Maybe I’ll ask one of my friends who live there. I heard it’s a cia surveillance building
NSA, but yeah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
My father worked for Western Electric, the part of the Bell System that handled wiring this building (and others). I’m pretty sure he worked there, at least for a while. The amount of copper wire in that building is astronomical.
Ea-Nasir has entered the chat
But so has Bubbles.
Did you hear the news?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/trailer-park-boys-star-sexual-assault-charge-bubbles-9.6972349
Oh ffs is nobody normal? Why does every actor have to be a sex pest?
I actually really liked his character.
I hadn’t, but I also meant this guy:
this could be us, but you playin’
My life is empty without a doomer shawty to collect copper and smoke crack with. 😔
✊ the struggle is real fam
FYI
TITANPOINTE: The NSA’s Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight
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Well then
Fern did a video on it.
I mean, at least they nailed the dystopian aesthetic