The NYC Skyscraper Without Windows

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Why aren't there any windows in this NYC skyscraper? Well the story involves nuclear war, mass surveillance, and secret agents.
Located in 33 Thomas Street New York, NY. This is the AT&T Long Lines Building.
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@boyfromredhook Год назад

I’ve been in this building when I was with AT&T. It was originally used for the transatlantic cable project. Needless to say, wireless service was horrible. The freight elevators are massive. When entering the floor we occupied, it was like stepping back to the 60’s.

@AckzaTV Год назад

hillcrest sd att

@allensandven0 Год назад

Some sites look as if they set their coffee down and everyone left and didn’t come back ? If I were a architect of that motif…. What were they thinking 🤔

@mangobaby_videos Год назад

@@allensandven0 not sure

@Robtuse_ Год назад

I service the air compressors here and it’s an absolute dead zone in the sub basement

@alexlabs4858 Год назад

The AT&T switch building in Denver is like that

@SeamlesslyAwkwerd 3 года назад

A video game titled CONTROL took inspiration from this building. Its brutalist architecture and minimal windows are just so mysterious and haunting. Definitely can see why the building in the video game and its design used this building as its inspiration.

@falco.404 2 года назад

The oldest house is indeed, after all, in NYC...

@mr_whyy 2 года назад

I saw this building and immediately thought about the FBC and it's weird building

@eden20111 2 года назад

I wonder if the NSA is housing Polaris in there. I hope so. I have so many questions.

@mr_whyy 2 года назад

@Truth Sorry7 yeah sure ofc, as seen on tv, what else might be going on in there? saw movies ? maybe a whole hunger game in the cave ? but what if it's bruce wayne's tower and it's the batcave ? Maybe spongebob lives there too huh ? who knows, it's the GOVernment !! GuesSigN manNy pEples died inThere.!,

@mr_whyy 2 года назад

@Truth Sorry7 1 answer, cold war. Also if there was a place for such a thing, you would not know about it, think for a minute... Not it Manhattan... I thought conspirationists were a little more intelligent.

@jaysworld5378 3 года назад

The 131 dislikes are the people who entered this building but were never able to leave.

@UrbanistExploringCities 3 года назад

Lmao 🤣

@michael_mouse Год назад

... "welcome to hotel california"

@lordwallie24 Год назад

people born in the 1990s \

@Largentina. Год назад

But are still allowed wifi access and RU-vid?

@ShawnKavanagh Год назад

Backroom Boys

@subspace2913 3 года назад

A few years back on my trip to NYC I walked past this building and got so confused, and it bothered me ever since then. Thanks for this!

@sylviam6535 Год назад

I have seen other multi-storey buildings without windows. When you ask, they are always telephone exchanges.

@dylanjordan4747 Год назад

why didn’t you just google it

@subspace2913 Год назад

@@dylanjordan4747 'twas a wee child

@spopple88 Год назад

@@dylanjordan4747 honestly alot of people just are lacking.....not the intelligence but just the understanding of the concept that you can find information with a quick Google search

@DanteYewToob 3 года назад

I feel like the lack of windows makes the building look smaller... it keeps tricking my eye into thinking it's only 10 floors or so, until you really notice it next to the other buildings or film it straight up. Wierd. We really rely on windows as a frame of reference for determining size in buildings

@rekeembelac1684 Год назад

I could imagine a whole city like this

@tonysingleton6633 4 месяца назад

Think tesla

@_Diggler 3 года назад

500 feet up, 500 feet down. That’s a nice server farm you got there.

@TangentOmega 3 года назад

Surprised no one came out to say, "hi". Years ago, while photographing (35 mm) buildings in downtown Houston, I had a couple of friendly guys in suits and sunglasses politely tell me, " It's not allowed to photograph this building." These guys were either one of the alphabet agencies or the Men in Black. Weird.

@UrbanistExploringCities 3 года назад

I think after the NSA leaks they chilled out. I also remember after 9/11 security was tight in NYC especially when it came to photography

@AlexRuckusFTW 3 года назад

@tangentomega, may I ask what building in Houston that was?

@jpabmx 3 года назад

Men in black.... That's what this building is for sure! 👍 👽

@campandcook3118 Год назад

@@jpabmx maybe, it absolutely has more than 3 basementm level

@michael_mouse Год назад

@@campandcook3118 ... and tunnels going everywhere

@SuperNewbie06 Год назад

This building reminds me of the Men In Black headquarters.

@anthonybranca1800 3 месяца назад

That's actually the the air control towers for the Battery Tunnel.

@alasdairdignon7925 3 года назад

I was upstairs in that building a few years back, which was a pretty cool experience. Raised floors and acres of racks with miles of overhead wiring. Checking in at the front desk is like something out of a Terry Gilliam movie. Huge empty foyer, large imposing desk, and two sign-in books: one blue (AT&T) and one red (VZ). I am sure there were others for the various 3-letter agencies, but I didn't see them. VZ, I believe, used to be at the WTC, but then got space at Thomas St after 9/11. Apologies if I missed this being mentioned in the video.

@VanguardEternal 2 года назад

Why were you there and how did you get to the floors above?

@treefrog123a 2 года назад

They started building down after 9/11

@alasdairdignon7925 2 года назад

@@VanguardEternal Sorry, just saw this question. I was in there working with one of the 2 companies I mentioned above as there is telco datacenter networking gear in there. I had no access to the other floors that may be used for more clandestine purposes. Still cool to have actually gone in there as it is a good story to tell.

@richardhaas39 Год назад

AT&T had a CO in the WTC. Verizon (Nynex) was in West St, Pearl St. and 100 Broad St.

@pauliedweasel 11 месяцев назад

In some ways not unlike the One Wilshire Building in Los Angeles.

@armorer94 3 года назад

If they tried discovering my secrets they'd be bored shitless.

@lauragalindo8391 3 года назад

🧐🙄🧐🤪👍👍😂😂

@vonnieb3257 3 года назад

Same here lol..xx

@phillipayoung10 3 года назад

😂😂😂😂 Stop!!

@StinkFingerr 3 года назад

Yes, there's something dreary about you.

@davidyoder6174 3 года назад

Very similar AT&T (Southern New England Telephone) building in Hartford. Built in late 1960s. Very strong structural steel frame. No windows. Switching equipment in it then was probably replaced by one iPad!!

@williamschaffel3760 9 месяцев назад

I worked for AT&T as a technician and was assigned to 39 Thomas Street, then called 100 Broadway when it opened. For my last five years for AT&T I worked in this building. Back then, most of the floors were still empty.

@MBhatesYT 3 года назад

This is the most interesting and fascinating story I’ve ever heard about NYC, thank you for making this video! I didn’t even know (how ignorant of me) that this building existed!

@tariqsw69 Год назад

A more fascinating story would be how Central Park was built! Look it up if you don’t know

@poormanselectronicsbench2021 Год назад

I have been in the windowless Chicago counterpart to the NYC building, as a cable splicing tech for Illinois Bell / Ameritech, known as "10 South Canal" The cafeteria was fully functional until at least the late 80's, (company cost cutting closed down most cafeteria's across the nation) mostly for employee convenience, as it would have been hard for most to go out to get a lunch and get back on the allotted lunch time of an hour or less. And as far as giving the government "access" to voice and data, there's a long history of that, even down to an event in the 1980's where a AT&T engineer checking an equipment facility on the coast in CA, noticed equipment in a fiber optic cable signal path that wasn't on company records. It turned out, it was a optical signal "splitter" that enabled the guvment to parse all data traffic going over that cable path (possibly to Hawaii and then to Asia), but his accidental whistle blowing raised awareness of such work. More recently, a "Room 641A" was disclosed by an AT&T employee ( wikipedia referenced info) disclosing a NSA access point to fiber optic signal paths.

@MA-yh2ko 3 года назад

I used to work in the area for years. 1 day at lunch passing by with coworkers we saw 3 men having a smoke break out front at the top of the stairs. We asked what the bldg was and they looked at each other and just shook their heads NO. It is a telecommunication hub, but it reportably also monitors all international calls. Certain key words on calls would trigger monitoring allegedly. Btw AT&T has another huge bldg further north on Church St as well. I think it's even shown in the background on this video.

@johannsmithe2570 3 года назад

32 Avenue of Americas, AT&T Long Distance Building (four blocks north on Church Street of 33 Thomas Street, Long Line Building) on *Walker* Street 60 Hudson Street, Western Union Building, on *Thomas* Street (two blocks west of 33 Thomas Street, AT&T Long Line Building) Both 32 Avenue of Americas and 60 Hudson Street were designed by R. Thomas Walker. Also, AT&T was at 550 Madison Avenue, 195 Broadway LLC (Western Union) on Church Street, 375 Pearl Street (Verizon), 140 West Street Verizon Building designed by R. Thomas Walker. Add, 811 10th Avenue.

@thecloneguyz 3 года назад

The whole keyword thing has always been a joke because by the time you say the key word they haven't recorded the preceded conversation so it's pointless after that

@kylerocket4904 3 года назад

@@thecloneguyz The entire conversation would be recorded and keywords would trigger the conversation to be saved and flagged, no keywords and it’s deleted.

@thecloneguyz 3 года назад

@@kylerocket4904 you forget that someone has to listen to it in real-time so it's all fake

@thecloneguyz 3 года назад

@@kylerocket4904 you forget that there's literally a billion conversations happening every hour and it's scientifically impossible to record all of them and then have one person listen to it in real time

@dutchmazz 3 года назад

Absolutely one of your best videos, I loved it and learned something new! Well Done!

@scottygarner4670 2 года назад

This was a fascinating and incredibly well done video I gained WAY more knowledge than I thought I would looking up on RU-vid to simply find a video on this building with no windows in New York City.

@tacosno409 Год назад

8:54 the undercover casually smoking a cigarette keeping an eye on our presenter lol

@jondavidmcnabb 3 месяца назад

Dude!!! you totally spotted it!

@adriart8690 3 года назад

Another great video Ariel. You always bring varied and interesting information. So grateful I found your channel. Keep it up Ariel!

@UrbanistExploringCities 3 года назад

👾 BTW this building is featured prominently in my sci-fi novella RETROWAVE: www.amazon.com/Retrowave-Ariel-Viera/dp/B088LBXBYV/

@shoobie 3 года назад

That’s the Federal Bureau of Control, you’re not even supposed to be aware of the building’s existence ;)

@piratetv1 3 года назад

unless you're looking for it

@dylanduff9645 3 года назад

The Oldest House!

@corneliuselbourne1044 3 года назад

Looks like a fortress to me, like the last man standing type of building when all else fail.

@mountainbreeze4176 3 года назад

Screams look at me I crave attention I’m different and edgy

@555pghbob Год назад

I'm a retired AT&T Long Lines employee who worked before and after the divestiture of AT&T until the reconstitution of AT&T from the SBC / AT&T merger in Nov 2005. I heard many rumors about the building I worked in at 635 Grant Street in Pittsburgh, PA, e.g., that the building was strong enough to survived the annihilation of the USX building across the street if it fell on the AT&T building. It is absolutely true that AT&T monitored international phone calls in and out of the USA as early as the 1980's, when I started working there. I know, because I was an overseas telephone operator when everything still had an analog component. We used switchboards with cords, and we operators could listen into any conversation that was happening at anytime. We weren't permitted to do that, but we could monitor the line for transmission quality. I heard many interesting things, like drug deals from public phones here in the US and women calling their military husbands in Germany to complain about the kids or having no money. AT&T is a quasi government agency and trust that they monitor everything they possibly can. I finally left the company in 2009 when they started recording all of our customer interactions and searching our call records for any keywords like "fuck" or other swear words.

@officialnickname 8 месяцев назад

Isn't it common for call centers that the calls are recorded for quality control?

@sammbabazi2849 2 года назад

I subscribed afew hours ago, but am already addicted to watching this channel. Wow....so much architectural designs! And secrets too!

@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un Год назад

Another weird structure in NYC: At the western end of Canal Street, there is what looks to be an innocent pier with some benches...until you see an odd structure at the end of it. And then notice there's another pier with the same structure on the NJ side. And you might wonder "What is that?". Those are ventilation shafts for the Holland Tunnel. The Holland Tunnel is named as such not because of the area's Dutch heritage but rather because of Clifford Milburn Holland, the tunnel's chief engineer who died from a heart attack three yours before it opened due to stress from the project. When the tunnel opened in 1927, it was the longest continuous underwater vehicular tunnel in the world, as well as the world's first mechanically ventilated tunnel. The ventilation system was designed by Ole Singstad, a Norwegian who also worked on Lincoln, Brooklyn-Battery, and Queens-Midtown Tunnels.

@baddestjoanna-michellesmit5578 26 дней назад

Wow

@baddestjoanna-michellesmit5578 26 дней назад

The sacrafices. ❤❤

@UrbanistExploringCities 3 года назад

😱 Want to learn about another crazy skyscraper in NYC? This one is bulletproof: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-imxmAsNj4bc.html

@carlosripari7162 3 года назад

Thankyou.

@UrbanistExploringCities 3 года назад

@@carlosripari7162 my pleasure!

@george5955 3 года назад

Que es lo que sucede que no tiene subtítulos en español?. Saludos.

@TheDurnans Год назад

I worked as an MCI telephone operator in the very early 1990's. We had rooms that were locked off & we were told that it was for the use of government to do spying. I worked in a mid-western town.

@AverytheCubanAmerican Год назад

Speaking of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, if it wasn't for Jacqueline, the iconic Grand Central Terminal would've gotten the same fate as the original Penn Station. The original Penn Station was enormous, a majestic building that rivaled Grand Central. One describes it compared to the current Penn Station as "One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat.” When it was decided to demolish the building in favor of Madison Square Garden, there was outrage, but it wasn't enough to save it. It was a turning point in the preservation movement. Two years after its demolition, the city passed a landmarks preservation act, thereby creating the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Grand Central Terminal was next on the chopping block, as proposed by its then owner Penn Central in 1968. It was to be replaced by a Marcel Breuer office building design that looked like a shoebox lid on its side. Jacqueline Kennedy was having NONE of it. She joined the fight in 1975 with the Municipal Art Society and had a conference at the famous Oyster Bar where she said, "If we don’t care about our past, we can’t have very much hope for our future." Thanks to Jacqueline convincing the mayor (Abraham Beame), the terminal was ultimately saved by the city's LPC, but this was challenged by Penn Central in a Supreme Court case. In 1978, the court ruled in favor of the city. And the most beautiful building in NYC was saved.

@arribaficationwineho32 7 месяцев назад

Yes! Thank you for remembering her contribution.

@onemorecowswag 3 года назад

July 2019 I visited NYC fresh from the new mexico desert and late one night I decided to leave my temporary home in the bronx and walk around downtown Manhattan. Knowing nothing i rode the train and got off on a random stop, it was about 11pm and the nightlife in chinatown hummed in a crimson red. I got drunk in a noodle shop and got lost looking for the train station, deep inside of the urban canyon i looked up and saw this skyscraper. I may as well have been staring at a mothership floating in the sky. The long, flat, almost chimney like structure of the building filled me with a sense of dread and ignorance, i couldn't even look where I was going.

@baddestjoanna-michellesmit5578 26 дней назад

Sounds high 😂😂

@nikolatasev4948 3 года назад

Wonder how often people working there are thinking "Are we the bad guys?"

@ColtraneTaylor 3 года назад

If they're like the average person they don't.

@Nebarus 2 года назад

Or they know they are the good guys who also knows the secrets of the building should not be shared in public and with potential enemies of the US.

@nikolatasev4948 2 года назад

@@Nebarus I'm sure this is exactly what the Gestapo were telling themselves.

@Nebarus 2 года назад

@@nikolatasev4948 So you compare the NSA and FBI intelligence gathering to Gestapos methods and purpose of supporting an undemocratic regime? So the US is a regime with evil intend?

@nikolatasev4948 2 года назад

@@Nebarus I am saying " the secrets of the building should not be shared in public and with potential enemies of the country" is a very convenient excuse that can be used for pretty much anything. And therefore is absolutely not a proof the people inside the buildings are "good guys".

@LVT_Music21 3 года назад

Dude, this is awesome. First time Ive heard a comprehensive explanation on this.

@UrbanistExploringCities 3 года назад

yea my pleasure!! there's a few videos on it, but none really went in depth. I wish I could go inside!

@judithhinton5784 3 года назад

Usually, I'm not a fan of the brutalist architectural style, but this windowless building is fascinating. Very interesting information...thanks, Ariel!

@adamndirtyape 3 года назад

Good thing the Agents in the Matrix didn't take Morpheus to a building like this instead of one covered in windows. It would have screwed up Neo's rescue plan quite thoroughly.

@Varibeca 3 года назад

Or to a basement

@jamesowen1075 2 года назад

Ya looks like there prepared this time they wont lose there new matrix

@trumpameri1638 2 года назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣💪💪💪

@1arra1alpha72 Год назад

That's funny and true

@marynamurray9385 3 года назад

Fascinating information as usual - thank you Urbanist!

@UrbanistExploringCities 3 года назад

I'm so happy you enjoyed it!! thanks so much for watching :D

@debailey72 3 года назад

Thanks for this, I had no idea this building existed!

@UrbanistExploringCities 3 года назад

my pleasure! yea the building is surprisingly easy to miss I didn't know about it till only about 3 years ago

@lbush8261 3 года назад

Love the dramatic music at 7:31 when introducing the building ... not only that but also the way the camera panned upward to the top of the structure

@LaneGandy 3 года назад

There’s a building like this in Nashville owned by ATT and it was partially blown up by a van parked by it a few months ago. The network in the southeast US went down for a while.

@itselevenfiftyfive3833 Год назад

Oh I remember that incident

@therocinante3443 Год назад

How the hell wasn't that huge national news?

@SilentKnight43 Год назад

@@therocinante3443 It was.

@uncovidvaxxforthestrongand3582 Год назад

lol under attack

@kutter_ttl6786 Год назад

@@therocinante3443 It happened in 2020. Before exploding the RV also broadcast a warning stating there was a bomb and to clear the area so the only person killed was the bomber.

@chuckoneill2023 Год назад

Most big cities have a building or two like this. They were used to house switching systems for telecommunications. The lack of windows were for environmental control. I think security was just a secondary concern.

@kathieharine5982 10 месяцев назад

Yes.

@kummer45 3 года назад

This building is fascinating in many ways. Thank you so much for letting me be aware of it. The ventilation system must be a marvel of technology.

@jacquelineuk873 3 года назад

Wow that was fascinating! You do such varied and great videos

@keyanicks8682 3 года назад

The fact that the address has "33" in it tells you who in control.

@keyanicks8682 3 года назад

@TYS02 Masons

@vwsaiphone 2 года назад

The Teletubbies

@keyanicks8682 2 года назад

@@vwsaiphone tinky winky to be exact

@Spaceghost444 2 года назад

Of course. Black magic

@CreeseDF 2 года назад

aaaaa scary devil demon religious number!!111!111!!!!11

@hackjealousy 3 года назад

We always used to say that if the planes had hit 33 Thomas they would have bounced right off.

@eagleeye8916 3 года назад

@helloperson readingthis what do you mean ? I was in Brooklyn when the towers were on fire . My company had contracts for the clean up with the towers and adjacent buildings. I only worked like 5 days due to me feeling sick cause of all the debri . Luckily I don't have health conditions and respiratory problems .

@eagleeye8916 3 года назад

@helloperson readingthis we were wearing those n95 masks , had we knew how dangerous the conditions were we all needed those respiratory mask . That's why me n a few co workers stopped working there, we felt weak and sick it wasn't normal . By looking at the videos many times you can see burst at the corners where the beams are and it just dropping like nothing just like a demo job . That building should of never collapsed the way it did . I'm just glad I got out of there after a few days , I was weak all week . The pay was good but not worth my health and they didn't protect us like they should have . I lucked out . I can't imagine what those other guys went through

@tcjohnson3437 2 года назад

@@eagleeye8916 Pure liar.

@jasonm9264 2 года назад

Love this subject material. Thanks for the video. We have an old AT&T building in my area, Appleton, wi. Similar architecture but with windows. The base is also granite. When I was younger I worked for a maintenance company that serviced the building. It also had a massive basement. There was the basement that the everyday employees had access to, but under that was one that had 20’ ceilings with massive fuel tanks to several generators, kitchen area, coolers, and other rooms we didn’t go in. I had only been in there twice. It was rather amazing to be in there, reminds me that there are plans for the potential of mass destruction on US soil and we need to stay prepared.

@zaggirl06 2 года назад

I grew up in Neenah and I remember the AT&T building since we went to downtown Appleton a lot. I don’t remember windows but then again we didn’t really hang out around it lol. We had a small windowless AT&T building (Bell)in downtown Neenah too. It always freaked me out when I was a kid.

@chebochevato8336 Год назад

It's only a mystery to someone under 35. Anyone over 36 knows exactly what that building was from the thumbnail. Because most cities have one. Bigger the city, bigger the building. The phone company has been a monopoly for most of its existence. The tallest building in downtown Santa Rosa for decades was the Pac-Bell switchboard building. I live in Reno NV now. And I'm looking at the back of the old Bell/At&t switchboard building not more than 600 ft across a city storage yard and the Truckee river right outside my front door. Both of them windowless buildings of concrete and/or metal. Reno is 7 stories tall. Santa Rosa was 10 or 12. Both with mind control rays..err, I mean harmless satellite dishes pointed at your hopes and dreams...ehh I mean pointed at nothing in particular or suspicious in any way... Thousands of these buildings in nearly every city in the country. From Reno to Tulsa to Midland to Topeka to Eureka to LA to New York... New York's got 3 of them actually. The NSA is there? No shit Sherlock. Ever read the Patriot act?

@lizzykay9685 3 года назад

Wow! Thank you for that, so very interesting and cool!

@professional.commentator 4 месяца назад

I didn't even know this building existed until last year, and I'm a native New Yorker. It's crazy how nobody has ever really talked about it until in recent years.

@andytang04 3 года назад

AT&T actually has several windowless buildings here in California ,I’ve seen one in the Central Valley and also in east Los Angeles

@glojean94 3 года назад

Very interesting. Thank you for posting.

@user-uc4ot3jv5g Год назад

That’s New York for you. I’ve been here 5 years now and I’ve never heard of this street till now

@Chris-lh7wj Год назад

I distinctly remember this building just visiting NY as a tourist, really sticks out

@derekdurst9984 3 года назад

Warnecke designed the 60's era Federal Building in San Francisco...when it opened people walked in front with placards reading "THIS IS AN UGLY BUILDING" it still is... San Fran has been surrounding it with other structures trying to hide it for years! The NY building is handsome by comparison. Strong forms clad in expensive granite...not cheap curtain wall! Thanks for an interesting video...!

@legacy4548 Год назад

Forget expensive it was built to survive a nuke old man 🤣🤣🙏🙏

@dav264 3 года назад

Chicago has a similar ATT building at Canal and Madison. I believe it does have windows on some top floors of the building, but it's very similar to the one in this video.

@IntoTheLens827 Год назад

WOW!!!! Thats Crazy!!!! I've See this building & I had no idea what it was used for or built for. Awesome Video!

@christopherdieudonne Год назад

I just walked by this building yesterday during my vacation in New York. We wondered what it was and now this video pops up in my suggestions.

@danielh4995 Год назад

Android phone?

@AmbientWalking 3 года назад

Awesome! Love how atmospheric this is! I can watch it forever over and over again! : )

@katpyss 3 года назад

That was a really cool video. I want to go check out that intercom box next time I come into the city. Really nice production quality on this as well.

@JS-mq1qg 3 года назад

Thank you nsa for keeping us safe!

@vasileioskolias4728 3 года назад

Awesome video! Thanks Ariel!

@UrbanistExploringCities 3 года назад

my pleasure! I'm glad you enjoyed it!!

@DonGivani 3 года назад

Secret Service, FBI, CIA, DEA, NSA, Google all in one building

@letstravel300 3 года назад

Great sharing about this building.

@RobinsVoyage Год назад

Well done! I really enjoyed this.

@phlebgrl6064 Год назад

I’ve lived in New York State since I was born in the Bronx in 1960. I’m ashamed to admit that I never heard of this windowless building until today! Thanks for sharing

@alejandromedina-ix5yx 3 года назад

wish the video was longer, thank you man.

@5argetech56 3 года назад

I get visions of the Movie "The Day After" with Jason Robarts Shown in the late 1980's It was so terrifying that After the movie (ABC) had to show a disclaimer to calm everyone down!

@UrbanistExploringCities 3 года назад

oooh interesting, now I'm curious to check that movie out

@torg0 3 года назад

@@UrbanistExploringCities That movie was scary AF!

@karlee3095 3 года назад

I remember watching that. It freaked a lot of people out.

@adamndirtyape 3 года назад

What's scary is far too many people think the threat of Armageddon by nuclear war ended with the close of the Cold War, but in reality, the threat of nuclear annihilation is just as close as it ever was. People just don't talk about it as much anymore.

@AlexandreSilva-kc6kc Год назад

There's galaxies inside drawers in that building. Men In Black. I love that building, NYC had to have something like that. The design has fine details and quality construction. That "T" street lamp is fabulous.

@americanitalianisrael4008 Год назад

THIS WAS FANTASTIC. VERY VERY INTERESTING. GREAT JOB.

@tonymaher3034 3 года назад

When I first graduated architecture school in the late 1980’s, I worked for Warnekes firm, which was fairly small at that point. By that time he was a little hard of hearing and would basically yell questions at you. It was terrifying

@thecandyman9308 Год назад

lol that's hilarious

@SKF358 10 месяцев назад

1980s. It's plural not possessive so there's no apostrophe.

@colosseumbuilders4768 3 года назад

AT&T has skyscrapers all over the country with no windows. They house telecom equipment. There is one at the corner of Madison and Canal in Chicago, for example. There isn't much of interest inside.

@Box545x39 2 года назад

When was the last time you went inside this place?

@sean_before8807 Год назад

Thanks nsa haha

@EggmondChad Год назад

You’re not the builders buddy. You better hope you don’t work for the nsa. Better hope

@livejay9062 Год назад

Great intro sequence, and an intriguing video!

@WalkFun4K 3 года назад

so great videos of walking tour around the best city Thanks for sharing and stay connected 👍🙏👍🙏

@sunshinesweetlove..8066 3 года назад

Curious to see the inside but 1st time I’ve ever heard of this building. Cool story.

@shadowess1961 3 года назад

Who would or could work in a windowless building for 8 hours? Sounds crazy as hell. Yet I am fascinated...

@GmanL18P 3 года назад

Oddly enough most people do, I worked in a kitchen for about 10-11 hours, Without ever seeing any sort of day light till I went to go home.

@frankblack0503 3 года назад

Warehouses, production, and so on...

@R2TheM 3 года назад

I work in a building originally built for the FBI.. 4 stories, no windows.

@bmona7550 3 года назад

North Texas high school buildings barely even have windows..

@K42023 3 года назад

The Matrix doesn’t need windows.

@reiswekker 3 года назад

Thank you for making me aware of brutalism. Great video.

@Elfnetdesigns Год назад

We have on similar to that here but it is painted with giant murals on it's walls to make it more pleasing to look at. The building here houses PSTN switching equipment, fiber optic trunks, All the city and county officials departments servers. Long lines microwave transceivers, various cellular providers and a number of other internet relates systems like DNS servers, mail servers, web servers, etc.

@suelyons531 3 года назад

when I live in NYC I always thought this building was a gas-off-air flow exchange for the subway system. I guess not!

@sunshinenyc007 3 года назад

Ariel was wondering if u ever did a tour of gramercy park and the history of the beautiful old buildings around it? Oh wait i found it!! Yay

@UrbanistExploringCities 3 года назад

I’ll do a more in depth tour soon! :D

@DavidNakkila 3 года назад

Wow your great at telling a story! Keep these videos up!

@UrbanistExploringCities 3 года назад

thanks, I really appreciate it! I'm glad you dig my storytelling :D

@santiagosoria461 3 года назад

That's it, new favorite channel.

@thejoshman3843 3 года назад

this video will self destruct in 30 seconds...

@UrbanistExploringCities 3 года назад

lmao 😂 that explains the black suv outside my home... jk!

@TheAdventuresOfDougan Год назад

I used to walk past this building all the time. I knew it had to have a nefarious purpose because why no windows? Well, apparently, you can decipher the vibrations of sound on glass, so you can hear conversations in the building by monitoring the windows. Always made me think of Pink Floyd and flying pigs.

@243wayne1 Год назад

Defeats laser mics and parabolic mics.

@jacksmith7576 9 месяцев назад

No doubt children have been sacrificed their... 33 thomas street.

@mattperez1705 3 года назад

This building is SUCH an old topic and has not been a mystery for years.

@alexlambidis4865 2 года назад

great video, brother!

@ChopFooey 3 года назад

I'm honestly shocked you weren't detained and questioned as to why you were filming critical infrastructure. Those guys don't play around, or so I'm told.

@RonLaws Год назад

easier to let people do it and ramble on, plausible deniability.

@KhaledTheSaudiHawkII Год назад

He’s probably on a dozen lists just because of filming and on another dozen just for posting the video on YT

@ElectricityTaster Год назад

Duh, it's the NSA. They know who he is and what he is going to do from several blocks away. There is no need to question him and risk some weird shit appearing on youtube.

@BladePocok Год назад

@@ElectricityTaster You think this video would have appeared here if he was questioned and detained ? :)

@jbdragon3295 10 месяцев назад

He is on a public sidewalk and can record anything and everything he sees. It’s a first amendment protected right. Can’t just illegally detain a person because of a camera in public. That would also create a huge scene. I’m sure this building gets recorded all the time. It’s what is inside that actually matters. No one is taking pictures of the inside and posting those. That would be a huge deal and done on private property. They wouldn’t be playing around then.

@ftla2014 3 года назад

Brutalism ❤️

@debschmitt761 3 года назад

Fascinating, thank you!

@77numerouno 3 года назад

Thanks for this interesting video 👍

@houstontexas8738 3 года назад

There's a building like this one in downtown Bryan, TX that also has no windows and says at&t on it but its not as tall

@LINA.. 3 года назад

Your clever mind, your memory and your fluent speach amazes me everytime :) You are a great guy and this is good information!

@robertkirkpatrick9282 Год назад

There is a smaller version of this building in Youngstown, Ohio also owned by AT&T. Similar building material, same style, and no windows, however several doors on the exterior with no outside fire escape attached, shear drop to the ground if someone stepped through them. Next to it is a 10 story metal tower with Youngstown State’s logo on it as well. I’ve never seen anyone go in or out either.

@andyb3666 Год назад

Those fire escapes sound dangerous, what's the point?

@nathanb1078 10 месяцев назад

Fascinating look into this building. Thanks 🎉

@hydra7933 3 года назад

I always watch urbanist before i go to sleep, its a daily routine 😎

@chevycaprice87 3 года назад

In Moscow, there is a 21-story skyscraper without windows that also have a supercomputer inside that collects data about people in Russia. What a coincidence.

@dannylo5875 3 года назад

Its the control matrix.

@relaxandlivelife7093 Год назад

I loved the detailed presentation

@WetTropicsOfOz 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing! Very shifty building. Temperature still has to be controlled weather there are windows or not! No windows means you can’t look inside, quite depressing for people in there too! I’ve been few times to NYC & never noticed that building!