Does anyone know what's inside this building?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by nyaskiez@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
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Godort@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
cholesterol@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I mean, at least they nailed the dystopian aesthetic
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
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.
TomMasz@piefed.social 3 weeks 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.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The amount of copper wire in that building is astronomical.
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WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
It would be cool if you could share a video of that
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Might that not be a case of the building having a monster concentration of ferrous metal?
Madison420@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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]
FoxFairline@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The main server of EvilCorp.
Nasan@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Something something the redundant backups and hydrogen filling the room
nyaskiez@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Dr doofenshmirtz?!
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I believe they’re referencing Mr Robot
Godnroc@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Apple. There’s no windows.
Banana@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Oh that’s just the Oldest House
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
The janitor is nice though.
Starski@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Here’s a great video on it
nyaskiez@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Hey this looks interesting. I’ll check it out
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It’s a major communications connection hub and because that’s where so many data comes through, it’s also an intelligence base. Probably NSA.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
qbus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s an AT&t switch building
Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
New York telephone exchange.
BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
The Ministry of Love?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
NSA servers you say?
edinbruh@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Telephone exchanger. And as a consequence a lot of espionage occurred there, but just because it’s a big telephone exchanger, not because that’s its purpose.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Likely still occurs. Nowadays the equipment is different but most of the communications on the east coast go through thar building I believe?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I’ve played Wolfenstein The New Order. Probably Nazis.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pretty much, yeah.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
There are at least half a dozen quality YouTube videos on that building. It’s a Comms hub/bunker and the NSA probably has an office inside where they get a tap on basically all traffic AT&T handles
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
That's where Immortan Joe releases the water sometimes.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Cube.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
No idea what building that is or what’s inside, but I love me a giant brutalist megastructure.
certified_expert@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s a big router
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
It’s a CIA/NSA building. It contains SigInt shit.
nul42@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Inside there is a glass box surrounded by 7 cameras and other equipment. Sometimes Dale Cooper’s doppelganger shows up.
huquad@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It contains one of the missing palantir. Allows them to see anywhere they want.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 3 weeks ago
An artifact of that power can only be controlled by the director
Zier@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
It's the global "build-a-bear" factory, that the Lububus did a hostile takeover on.
cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
The CIA or NSA telecom data extraction building … Something like that, where all the internet gets analyzed in there…
dan69@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nearby metro systems central hvac.
bhamlin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The internet. All of it.
stoy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Probably
toe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Titanpointe.
webp@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
The dinosaurs
Rumo161@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Ministry of Magic
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s the building where the guy from the Netflix movie hosts his AR murder game
explodIng_lIme@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The Federal Bureau of Control
Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Who the fuck did your onboarding, agent?! Did you skip over the part where you’re not, under any circumstances, to reveal the location of the Oldest House to the public?! Do you need another copy of that memo?!
edinbruh@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Nope, the oldest house is just on the other side of the street
Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Yep, other side, that’s definitely not just a red herring address that was invented for that interactive mockumentary that came out a few years ago.