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Many of you have not doubt seen this mysterious and imposing structure jutting out death-star like from the streets of lower manhattan. Its an AT&T telephone switch hub for lower Manhattan. When it was built, it was built to survive--with a two week power supply and no windows, so all inside would be shielded from the feared Soviet nukes and dreaded fallout. Of course, now there are other fears, less tech, more tenuous, that weigh on us. A friend of mine, who grew up with a roof in the west village told me that within the urban mythos of his friends, it...

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Sunday, June 3rd 2007

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