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Ha, I used to work inside this building in 2010.
by smath 3y ago
Ha, I used to work inside this building in 2010.
- tiku 3y agoUsually this is followed by some cool stories.....
- baz00 3y agoOr silence.
- micah94 3y agocool silence?
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- qingcharles 3y agoAnd that's the story of how nobody heard from smath ever again.
- iworshipfaangs2 3y agoDid you like working there?
- cscheid 3y ago(Not parent, but also worked there for about 2 years) The no-window thing is real and freaks people out, but each floor is very tall and the interior was open enough that it didn't feel claustrophobic. You're also in a zipcode that is in contention for "best in the world for whatever-you-might-want-to-do". If you ever got claustrophobic, a walk around tribeca usually would cure you of that real quick-like.
- wkat4242 3y agoIs the art deco inside as beautiful as cracked up to be? Ps I also worked in a phone exchange building. Cool thing was that there were half floors. 1, 1 1/2, 2, 2 1/2 etc. These floors were in fact half height like in the movie Being John Malkovich. Except there were no offices, they were used to route the huge cable trunks between floors and rooms. These days with single fibers replacing thousands of cable pairs I'm sure they're a lot more roomy than they were back then.
- fourthark 3y agoNot in this one; 33 Thomas is later than the buildings you are thinking of. You'd want to glance inside ex-AT&T 32 Ave of Americas for the full art deco. That's a great story about the half floors!
- cscheid 3y ago> These days with single fibers replacing thousands of cable pairs I'm sure they're a lot more roomy than they were back then. That's how I ended up working there. 33T used to be packed full of gear but everything shrank so much that AT&T found themselves with dozens of empty floors. They didn't renew a lease on a big NJ lab I worked on, and a number of us ended up being able to choose commuting to NYC.
- realo 3y agoSurely you have a nice proof but it is too large to write in the margin ... :)
- bliteben 3y agoi hope this isn't his last post
- cscheid 3y agoHey, same! (From ~2012 to 2014), but yeah.
- smath 3y agoHey Carlos, I remember you (nanocubes!!). I was in the security research group. Re stories: — the building has a well!! — apparently it is well stocked with enough food for a month for 20-30 ppl. I never independently verified this. — lots of tourists would walk up to the front entrance and try to poke around — yes no windows. My group tried to install screens in the office with feeds from cameras pointing outside - we were told it had 6 ft thick walls to withstand nuclear radiation
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- swader999 3y agoHe Mike! How are you doing?