Titanpointe: The NSA’s spy hub in New York, hidden in plain sight (2016)
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#233 Thomas Street (formerly the AT&T Long Lines Building) is a 550-foot-tall (170 m) windowless skyscraper in Tribeca, Lower Manhattan, New York City. It stands on the east side of Church Street, between Thomas Street and Worth Street. The building is an example of the Brutalist architectural style. It is a telephone exchange or wire center building which contained three major 4ESS switches used for interexchange (long distance) telephony, as well as a number of other switches used for competitive local exchange carrier services. However, it is not used for incumbent local exchange carrier services, and is not a central office. The CLLI code for this facility is NYCMNYBW. The building has also been described as the likely location of a National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance hub codenamed TITANPOINTE.
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#3Discussed (a bit) at the time:
The NSA’s Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12970683 - Nov 2016 (3 comments)
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#5Anyone who has played Control will have a bit of deja-vu.
Re: Titanpointe: The NSA’s spy hub in New York, hidden in plain sight (2016)
#633 Thomas Street (formerly the AT&T Long Lines Building) is a 550-foot-tall (170 m) windowless skyscraper in Tribeca, Lower Manhattan, New York City. It stands on the east side of Church Street, between Thomas Street and Worth Street. The building is an example of the Brutalist architectural style. It is a telephone exchange or wire center building which contained three major 4ESS switches used for interexchange (lon…
A fifty story windowless concrete building that's genuinely attractive. Not at all what I expected to discover on the Wikipedia page.
Re: Titanpointe: The NSA’s spy hub in New York, hidden in plain sight (2016)
#733 Thomas Street (formerly the AT&T Long Lines Building) is a 550-foot-tall (170 m) windowless skyscraper in Tribeca, Lower Manhattan, New York City. It stands on the east side of Church Street, between Thomas Street and Worth Street. The building is an example of the Brutalist architectural style. It is a telephone exchange or wire center building which contained three major 4ESS switches used for interexchange (lon…
A fifty story windowless concrete building that's genuinely attractive. Not at all what I expected to discover on the Wikipedia page.
How is it attractive? It looks extremely oppressive.
I remember coming by that building while walking through Manhattan by chance and thinking this must be some government surveillance center or something.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
A fifty story windowless concrete building that's genuinely attractive. Not at all what I expected to discover on the Wikipedia page.
How is it attractive? It looks extremely oppressive. I remember coming by that building while walking through Manhattan by chance and thinking this must be some government surveillance center or something.
Indeed it looks very oppressive, reminding people of the Big Brother and other similar regimes in history …
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#933 Thomas Street (formerly the AT&T Long Lines Building) is a 550-foot-tall (170 m) windowless skyscraper in Tribeca, Lower Manhattan, New York City. It stands on the east side of Church Street, between Thomas Street and Worth Street. The building is an example of the Brutalist architectural style. It is a telephone exchange or wire center building which contained three major 4ESS switches used for interexchange (lon…
A fifty story windowless concrete building that's genuinely attractive. Not at all what I expected to discover on the Wikipedia page.
They could have put some fake windows to make it look normal. They do this with data center buildings in my city.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
A fifty story windowless concrete building that's genuinely attractive. Not at all what I expected to discover on the Wikipedia page.
How is it attractive? It looks extremely oppressive. I remember coming by that building while walking through Manhattan by chance and thinking this must be some government surveillance center or something.
Attractiveness is entirely subjective by definition.
I personally find it a very attractive building. Much like the Barbican Estate or the National Theatre in London.