"This is a building of the people," the squatter Dominique, who had worked construction, told me, referring to its history as a public health agency and its suitability for heavy use. Hard floors swept clean. Banks of cabinets, their material a blond composite, lined the halls, which at rhythms of their own let onto rooms that had been government workers' offices."
"People liked to see feet coming in the hallway, company, warning. Each door wore a padlock. Living quarters in this way took up the aboveground stories, thirty to thirty-five offices a floor."
"A squatter who lived on the third floor told me they'd had, on that floor, to padlock the kitchen. Reputedly clean, it attracted the messier residents of other floors. After they finished making messes on their floors, they came and made a mess on the third floor."
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