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.
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Godort@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
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TomMasz@piefed.social 10 months ago
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.
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mika_mika@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My life is empty without a doomer shawty to collect copper and smoke crack with. 😔
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
✊ the struggle is real fam
Lumidaub@feddit.org 10 months ago
The amount of copper wire in that building is astronomical.
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dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
But so has Bubbles.
bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Did you hear the news?
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ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Replied to the wrong thread
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
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.
nyaskiez@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
It would be cool if you could share a video of that
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Sadly, I didn’t take one and I don’t live in NYC anymore.
nyaskiez@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Ah makes sense. Maybe I’ll ask one of my friends who live there. I heard it’s a cia surveillance building
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Might that not be a case of the building having a monster concentration of ferrous metal?
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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.
Madison420@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Interesting, thanks for the info. I’d always wondered what was causing that.
Madison420@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No problem.
Here’s a video, he’s a lot just an fyi but he’s smart and enjoys what he does.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
it is a telephone exchange or wire center building […] used for […] telephony, as well as […] for competitive local exchange carrier services. However, it is not used for incumbent local exchange carrier services, and is not a central office. Its CLLI code is NYCMNYBW.
It has been reported that the building is used as a National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance facility.[1][2]
cholesterol@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well then Image
kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I mean, at least they nailed the dystopian aesthetic
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Fern did a video on it.