Tuesday, April 13, 2010
News The Secret NYPD Tunnel Behind Brooklyn Heights' Decoy Brownstone
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:34 PM
A local community group's neighborhood history calls it “the world’s only Greek Revival subway ventilator" (watch out, architectural history joke!), and the BP's account of what lurks behind is half-Matrix, half-Alice in Wonderland:
the exit disguised as a brownstone leads to a grimy-lit set of metal stairs that ascend past utility boxes and ventilation shafts into a windowless room with a door. If you opened the door, you would find yourself on a stoop, which is just part of the façade.
See, Brooklyn has secret underground passageways too.
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