The Fake Buildings of New York: What Happens Inside Their Mysterious Walls
Briefly

58 Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights, once a townhouse, was converted into a subway vent in 1907, with peculiar bunker-like features juxtaposed against nearby residences.
The Strecker Memorial Laboratory, constructed in 1892, was the first facility in the nation dedicated to pathological and bacteriological research, later repurposed as a subway power conversion station.
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