As a child my abeula lived across the street from this building and Id always wonder why it had no windows. I never would have imagined how strange the answer to that ? is, but I'm happy I now know. "Documents obtained by The Intercept from the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden do not explicitly name 33 Thomas Street as a surveillance facility."

Fascinating look inside (but mostly outside) one of New York's most formidable fortresses [#architecture](/relevant/new/architecture) [#AT](/relevant/new/AT) &T [#NSA](/relevant/new/NSA) #masssurveillance #politics [#snowden](/relevant/new/snowden) [#dystopian](/relevant/new/dystopian) [#brutalism](/relevant/new/brutalism) #whosbehindthedoor [#neighbourly](/relevant/new/neighbourly)