The Secret Behind the Huge, Windowless Skyscraper in NYC 

I am confuse

My head hurts now, thanks! 😀

Phoneception?

damn, it's classy AF

@Fmono • 38 years ago • Updated Why do you close the door when you go to the bathroom? Even if doing nothing wrong, I don't want the NSA to my private information. By the same logic as yours then, you would let the government put a camera in your bedroom then?

Jared Lampal I actually was like “well it’s odd but a bit interesting”

The most common bricks are made from clay and heated at a thousand degrees centigrade. Bricks are energy efficient because they hold sunlight throughout the day and release that energy after the sun goes down. 8 million bricks were used to build the Great Wall of China - in 200 BC! Bricks have frogs. The indentation in the surface of a brick is called a frog, and debate rages over whether the bricks should be laid frog-up or frog-down. The minerals used to create a brick determine its color. Red bricks are red because of the iron in them, and higher temperature firings produce darker colored bricks. There is minimal waste in the brick production process as only an insignificant amount of minerals and moisture vanish during the heating process There are face bricks, common bricks, paving bricks, fire bricks and refractory bricks - each designed for a specific purpose. In 2007, a new type of brick was invented using fly ash, a by-product of coal power plants. Brick can withstand extreme temperature changes and is considered one of the most durable building products The Romans created mobile kilns which allowed them to introduce kiln fired bricks to the whole of the Roman Empire

Max Aggropop neat

no

Yeah, I actually was starting to look forward to learning about bricks. Can you make a brick video for real now, HAI?

Almost as crazy as him being that guy from wenderover productions

Just needs a huge sign on the top that says Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc.

About as obvious as Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc.

@@hilosky You beat me by two months. Anyway, I am still leaving the comment.

AT&T likely has no choice in this matter.

AT&T wouldn't mind though since they're also leasing expensive vacated Manhattan floor space. I've seen multiple generations of telephone switch equipment and they really are packing more capabilities into smaller boxes.

@@doujinflip You're not kidding. I started in the phone world when we were still installing huge meridian systems and still serving 3100 and millenniums. Now what used to be the size of a refrigerator is neatly packed in a 2U box.

@@rixille they offered to pay att, att did it for free

Back when this was built, it was all just one telephone company. Literally all phones were Bell Telephone (aka American Telephone and Telegraph, later AT&T). And yeah, they were almost a governmental company rather than a corporation.

"Okay that should be enough NSA talk to get *Big Brick* off my trail"

Stop the brick-tease make it happen

@@ungratefulmango _Big Brick is watching._

Yep we do

YES.

agreed. the stuff later was only half as interesting

Kevin C angry upvote

I found it only half as interesting as the skyscraper itself.

Seriously... do the bricks video.

me 2

xXGIMpL0rdXx first reply

@@CoolBluePlayz who cares

Next we will hear “carbon”

Vinny Games stfu

@@josefsmakal3719 Hmmmm

He did, but it was about carbon dioxide.

I'd sign that

Seriously!

ditto

Don't worry. I'm sure Practical Engineering will do a video on them at some point :)

same

Sean Morgan ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pg2Q4ifjO_A.html

That's the whole joke... Jesus he can't give every one on a silver platter.

Woosh

thanks for explaining that to us idiots, youre so clever.

@teflontelefon haha sorry thought i clicked op not you. See how you though i was being dick to you. Sorry Edit: i didnt click you so msg was to op

Lmfao I was just gonna say this. He told us EXACTLY where it was.

Nice try FBI

@@HarryWizard Good day CIA

@@thefireocean1 Not today, NSA.

@@HarryWizard Hold the calls, Interpol.

@@HarryWizard the national guard are on their way.

Muricah

Because there’s no other option for a nuclear survivable building in nyc?

e l e n a But why NYC.

For all we know it is an underground building. That skyscraper could be nothing more than a shell to throw us off.

@@johnjacob688 everything we have to do is press F3+N to turn into spectator mode and check out underground air blocks.

maybe it goes underground the same number of floors...

@@MiniRockerz4ever So the top can fall on top, perfect. It'll then have cover.

@bryan diaz varela Nuke proof, not zombie proof. Zombies just phase through windowless buildings. That's why windows exist.

@bryan diaz varela woosh

It's called *nyc*

elrafa111 same

I honestly thought it was going to be about bricks, but was perfectly fine with that. I was slightly disappointed when he stopped talking about bricks

@@drpeper6471 Same. I want a video about bricks now.

Bricks or we riot!

I've got deja vu with these bricks...

Yeah, I figured it would be something like that.

As a display of imperial extravagance, all US government building contain their own gentleman's club.

Brandon Jacobson I wouldn’t be surprised !

@@PH1M0 Um.. no. Sure, those do exist, but they're not in every building. Mainly the most important ones, such as the US Capitol, the White House, etc. The Eiffel Tower has one too, since the suite where Eiffel would host other prominent figures is technically an exclusive gentleman's club.

And since the gentlemen who go there are so tall, there are actually only 10 stories instead of 20.

@Mcheetah no, but the poles are. It takes a lady five minutes to slide down the pole upside down with one leg splayed out

Actually, it's more a function of _not having to pay for operators._

Granger Montag lol

Lol

@@jfbeam True

@@jfbeam conspiracytards will always exist. it's a sad reality.

Plot twist: that part was a decoy so that only the right people will know the secret

Lol

Karma _ they are it’s just those kids thought it was so cool that they ran away

Your kids are the feds

@@Wogsmawp you are kids? work on your grammar.

Types “Titanpointe” into Google Earth and there she is.

I would guess the windows are just for some sunlight in such a window-less building.

when u realize u got baited _ight ima head out_

MinnytheMorki Actually, this video was made possible by brilliant

@@newyork6480brilliant out here helping people build mental bricks called knowlege

Reading it for the first time now when I have off time at work!

@Peter A. I have not read 1984 Indeed sounds like a depressing read. Do you surmise from the book an aspect of logic over emotion? In other words: removing all emotional thinking/intelligence??

Stuart D Yes that sounds about right. Although I haven’t read the novel in a good while, the aforementioned intellectual and emotional conformity present in Orwell’s depiction of a dystopian world was indeed really depressing :/

@Peter A. I agree, it's depressing as hell, unlike Animal farm, I actually couldn't finish it because of it. But I think Orwell wrote because he wanted less of the sheeps in Animal Farm, who just went along with everything and who are the real culprits in all this.

@Peter A. by suppression of thought through the destruction of the English language, are you referring to acronyms?

and which can withstand a similar sized building yeeted at it and a lightning bolt that completely envelops it without a scratch.

Finally a to aru fan

was waiting for a Toaru comment

WOW!!!

I thought that was confusing too, it's a giant concrete windowless structure how hard can be to find?

Some people have no common sense !

Jordan no it’s weird because he doesn’t need to find the address as it’s already in the name and when I was in NYC I never knew about it

And he didn't...he only said what some people call it. That what some people call it could be construed as an address is merely a coincidence!

@stan sorensen me too

They were investigating you, but ran into a brick wall...

Yeah it's almost like big corporations and the deep state are in bed together. 🤔🤔

More like NSA made it very HARD for AT&T not to cooperate with them.

have you googled for CALEA btw?

Not just AT&T. Every phone network was built like that. (and the internet as well, in the early days. see also: "meet points", and "carrier hotels")

Every phone and internet companies in every countries work with the government when needed.

Tzwac dastag what about real engineering

@@advisedpotato8983 His voice makes me very sleepy

@@billcyber3070 who bricks?

@@tzwacdastag8223 Mr bricks

@@parcton9716 never heard

Interesting - I immediately thought of the oldest house when I saw the building!

I came here to say the same thing

I know I’m late but that’s exactly what I was thinking from the thumbnail alone.

Came here for this comment. I'm sitting here on my couch going "No, actually the NSA is the cover story for what's really happening there."

God, thinking about it makes me realize Control just hit all of my buttons right. It was like if Warehouse 13 had an illicit love child with Black Mirror and Bloodborne.

It’s the Oldest House

* Mossad

I quite like your [DATA EXPUNGED]

I came for bricks and architecture talk and after i was finished i fell asleep.

Any scp article trying to be mysterious

KETER CLASS

The Oldest house decided to finally show up

*shows the exact location on a map*

Thats the street Thomas street

33 Thomas St. New York, NY 10007

And it’s next to the famous jenga tower in case you were too lazy to look up the address

Is almost impossible y To find....

I can imagine it would be several orders of magnitude harder to get OUT of the federal reserve or the stock exchange with something valuable though

Potato Gamer ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pg2Q4ifjO_A.html

@@abhikovvuri4879 fuck off

Abhi Kovvuri it just has some depictions of bricks

Abhi Kovvuri it just has some depictions of bricks, not information

Ily

don't forget the equally high tech UV resistant zip ties

That’s what makes a $1500 camera into a $1600 camera.

I feel blessed that I wasn't the only person to notice that

You guys are schizo.

He really should just make a video on bricks

Roland Falken but it’s only gonna be a quarter as interesting

He got me hook line and sinker.

Which would be better than a lot of HAI episodes

It is in the Earth

At 33 Thomas Street.

@@archaeopx4505 r/woooosh

I can't find it!

@@xanpenguin754 Keep looking for it; It's just somewhere in Thomas Street, I swear!

Have you raided the building yet?

I second that motion.

next video has to be about bricks

holy crap yes. GET THIS SHIT TO THE TOP!

.....because it wouldn't be H.A.I./Wendover video unless they mentioned an airport or anything aviation-related.

Sam got royally done over by someone at Newark airport once. This is at least the fourth time he's roasted them.

Soon, every building in America will have long lines!

Mark Flierl Already there.

LOL this is subtly brilliant.

OMG, I totally missed that!

Lord Samich. Fucking gold! 😂

There was nothing lost.

HEY!! What are you doing out here, Broderick?! Get back in your sarcophagus container!! You had one job: Keep the lights on. ONE JOB!

Brics?

Florida and Cuba Man use the power of capitalism and communism to raid 33 Thomas Street

@@stewlover420 in what kind of dark blood ritual you could use capitalism and communism together :O

@@jskratnyarlathotep8411 china?

Godspeed

*o h n o*

Original joke. Very funny.

CruelQuertos yes it’s original and so far 48 people think it’s funny so how about I fuck off

Joshua Cho i’m attracted

Original very funny

True: Almon B. Strowger - Invented the Strowger Switch(board)

But only for one particular switch, known within the Bell System as step and mostly used for smaller CDOs. Other switches, such as Panel or Crossbar, were invented by the Bell Telephone Company.

impossible

Noooo

Whoaaaaaa.... Wayyyyyyyyyy really?

No way Stop lying /s

Omfg I just googled it and it’s true! Now that I think about it they do have the same voice 😅

"Its also 2 blocks away from the FBI Center"

Ikr, wtf?

ale84 well it’s also 500 feet tall, and has literally no windows, it sticks out like a sore thumb.

How do u only have 9 likes u always have like 7K likes lol

The US Bureau of Control is actually based off this building

control used this building as inspiration

The thunder song distorts you

So I wasn’t the only one thinking of the game when I saw the building...

thank god im not the only one thinking about this

If this was an office built by Bell during the cold war, it was likely some type of Crossbar, or possibly 1ESS. Step (Bell's switching system based on Strowger's invention) was generally only used for small offices.

No. Run along.

LMAO.

Same!

Bro i was expecting no widows in the building

Me too

Same

same

Ehh, I found it only half...

@@stylesrj ...as interesting

These replies are the best.

Ok so it is the building in Mr Robot. Lol i was wondering that when i thought it looked familiar

@@stevooo1790 Not only u...

*Doofenschmirtz evil incorporated jingle sounds in the background*

Was wondering how long I’d have to scroll until I saw a Mr Robot reference.

@@Connor-sj7uv same

No that was the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel ventilation building across the street from Battery Park.

Lol no

Planes are cool fight me

I'm from the NSA, and I didn't see any government secrets revealed here. It was just a boring brick video. I was so bored that I clicked off quickly.

@@Drunmer8645 psst bro i think you just burned this acount always rember to log into the public nsa acount before you post

@@kellynolen498 Oh shit you right. Now my identity is revealed, goddamn it.

VGames 1 I just finished reading 1984 for school, I was thinking this then entire time!

Ethan Coble hey I read 1984 for school too

The Foundation would like to know your location.

Iron bolt The board/government will contain/capture you now

I knew somebody else was thinking that. Maybe they got inspired.

@@morganrobinson8042 They actually did, they said so in an interview

was looking through the comments section hoping someone would mention the FBC

The Board/NSA is pleased to see that you're a man of culture/control as well.

Why two comments?

@@charliechua1877 why not

@@charliechua1877 it is fun

@@eragonshurtugal4239 Oh ok i get it

Was it that wikipedia list or this one?

Why two comments?

Brick video soon please!