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October 19, 2015 7:57 AM Subscribe
Inside Grand Central's Secret Sub-Basement, Which Nazis Nearly Destroyed [autoplaying video]
The sub-basement of Grand Central Terminal is New York City's deepest basement, at least that's what they'll tell you. It's also likely the safest and one of the most secure places in all of the 5 boroughs. It was never included on blueprints for the building, and its exact location remains confidential to this day.
The sub-basement of Grand Central Terminal is New York City's deepest basement, at least that's what they'll tell you. It's also likely the safest and one of the most secure places in all of the 5 boroughs. It was never included on blueprints for the building, and its exact location remains confidential to this day.
I'll almost forgive them for auto-playing video, because this article and the follow-up were interesting.
posted by radwolf76 at 8:46 AM on October 19, 2015
posted by radwolf76 at 8:46 AM on October 19, 2015
That's an incredible thing.
(And I'm secretly amused by the typo in Gothamists' URL: /2015/10/14/grand_central_hilter_nazis.php#photo-1)
Heil Hilter!
posted by chavenet at 8:48 AM on October 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
(And I'm secretly amused by the typo in Gothamists' URL: /2015/10/14/grand_central_hilter_nazis.php#photo-1)
Heil Hilter!
posted by chavenet at 8:48 AM on October 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
Something something, Lex Luthor
There, that's out of the way. Proceed with regular informed comments.
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 9:13 AM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
There, that's out of the way. Proceed with regular informed comments.
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 9:13 AM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
Lex Luthor nothing, M-42 is clearly part of the transit network for Wizard New York, and if it doesn't make a cameo in the upcoming (set in 1920s NYC) Fantastic Beasts Harry Potterverse movie I will be sadly disappointed.
posted by Wretch729 at 10:28 AM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Wretch729 at 10:28 AM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
Nazis again! I hate these guys.
posted by thelonius at 10:31 AM on October 19, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by thelonius at 10:31 AM on October 19, 2015 [4 favorites]
Wow! I did not know this. Very cool. I love this sort of secret infrastructure linked to very public things.
posted by rmd1023 at 10:48 AM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by rmd1023 at 10:48 AM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
Fascinating! I am very glad they did not destroy the original computer! Also Booo NAZIs getting Medicare and Social Security!
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 11:10 AM on October 19, 2015
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 11:10 AM on October 19, 2015
I am sad that Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson have not yet attempted to break into this place in costume.
posted by poffin boffin at 11:13 AM on October 19, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by poffin boffin at 11:13 AM on October 19, 2015 [4 favorites]
M-42 is clearly part of the transit network for Wizard New York, and if it doesn't make a cameo in the upcoming (set in 1920s NYC) Fantastic Beasts Harry Potterverse movie I will be sadly disappointed.
I believe you may be pleasantly pleased with Diane Duane's The Book of Night with Moon, which is all about wizard cats who help wizard humans maintain the wizard transit network located underneath Grand Central.
posted by Spatch at 12:05 PM on October 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
I believe you may be pleasantly pleased with Diane Duane's The Book of Night with Moon, which is all about wizard cats who help wizard humans maintain the wizard transit network located underneath Grand Central.
posted by Spatch at 12:05 PM on October 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
odinsdream: This episode. Same operation.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 12:33 PM on October 19, 2015
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 12:33 PM on October 19, 2015
Spatch - Actually you're right! I blew through all the young wizard and cat wizard books when I was a teen, and periodically catch up when I realize she's released a new one though I think I'm a book or two behind currently. Apparently there is even a small group doing a young wizards convention in Newark next year! Duane's love for NYC shows through all over her young wizard books.
posted by Wretch729 at 12:43 PM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Wretch729 at 12:43 PM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
Doesn't this thing intersect with Doc Savage's "Flea Run" from the Empire State Building to the Hidalgo Trading Co. down by the river? No? Nevermind. Forget I mentioned it.
posted by valkane at 12:58 PM on October 19, 2015
posted by valkane at 12:58 PM on October 19, 2015
This always gets me thinking about how many MTA tunnels, secret sub basements, access corridors, sealed off(or just disused) passages between buildings, and whatever other weird underground stuff must exist in new york that almost no one knows about.
How much stuff like this will no one, or almost no one ever see again?
posted by emptythought at 4:30 PM on October 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
How much stuff like this will no one, or almost no one ever see again?
posted by emptythought at 4:30 PM on October 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
emptythought: I always have those thoughts every time I pass by an old locked door with a lock that looks ancient and unused. I'm trying to find the article that I've read years ago about how somebody found an old weapons cache, from World War 2 if I remember correctly, in one of the support towers in one of the New York City bridges. So far I haven't found the article but I did find this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/nyregion/21capsule.html
posted by I-baLL at 5:17 PM on October 19, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/nyregion/21capsule.html
posted by I-baLL at 5:17 PM on October 19, 2015
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