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Location: Toronto, Ontario
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 |  | The New York Subway Uses A Townhouse As a Secret Exit
< on 12/22/2011 9:18 PM >
|  | | | Thought some of you might find this interesting.
http://gizmodo.com...e-as-a-secret-exit
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| | Re: The New York Subway Uses A Townhouse As a Secret Exit
<Reply # 1 on 12/23/2011 12:10 AM >
| | | | Clever bastards.
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team haymaker
Location: Burlington, Ontario
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: The New York Subway Uses A Townhouse As a Secret Exit
<Reply # 2 on 12/23/2011 2:29 AM >
| | | | thats pretty cool. out here we have houses that are hydro houses
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Location: Circle of Least Confusion
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| | | Re: The New York Subway Uses A Townhouse As a Secret Exit
<Reply # 3 on 12/23/2011 2:30 AM >
| | | | I thought Gizmodo was a bit more on top of turning stuff like this over, it got called out a while ago, but yeah. Pretty interesting.
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Keaven
Location: 15 miles from the Grassy Knoll
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| |  | Re: The New York Subway Uses A Townhouse As a Secret Exit
<Reply # 4 on 12/23/2011 7:45 PM >
| | | | I suspect that when the MTA choose to make it look like a typical townhome, it wasn't to hide it per se, but simply to make it fit in to the neighborhood. We have a couple of telco buildings here in a residential neighborhood, they look for the most part like the suburban ranch style houses on the same street.
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Hi/Po
Location: Earth
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| | Re: The New York Subway Uses A Townhouse As a Secret Exit
<Reply # 5 on 12/27/2011 8:23 AM >
| | | | In Toronto, we have a subway station entrance built into an old heritage house at Spadina subway station. While such integration of contemporary subway infrastructure into old buildings isn't exclusive to New York or Toronto, there's something whimsical and impressive about how cleanly they're integrated into these traditional urban houses. Spadina Station's Annex House entrance is quite ingenious and used everyday as a regular entrance. Keeping the original interior would be amazing, though walking into this old house and being teleported to a 1970s subway station with the signature interior design and artwork of the era is memorable.
Electricity substations in Toronto are also meant to blend into neighbourhoods. The buildings they occupy are often interesting in terms architecture. The lengths they went to in order to blend into different neighbourhoods are impressive. You peer through the windows of these unmanned stations sometimes to see transformers in ornate rooms with marble trim and chandeliers.
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Location: Trent Hills, ON
Gender: Male
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| |  | Re: The New York Subway Uses A Townhouse As a Secret Exit
<Reply # 6 on 12/30/2011 3:31 AM >
| | | | There's a Toronto Hydro "house" by my grandparents' place in Scarborough. It looks pretty convincing, aside from the tree growing through the "roof". (It's wide open in the middle.)
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YoelT
Location: Viet Nam
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| | | Re: The New York Subway Uses A Townhouse As a Secret Exit
<Reply # 7 on 12/30/2011 3:57 AM >
| | | | All those dern terrorists ruining it for everyone else.
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emceeay
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: The New York Subway Uses A Townhouse As a Secret Exit
<Reply # 8 on 12/30/2011 5:52 PM >
| | | | Posted by Hi/Po
In Toronto, we have a subway station entrance built into an old heritage house at Spadina subway station. While such integration of contemporary subway infrastructure into old buildings isn't exclusive to New York or Toronto, there's something whimsical and impressive about how cleanly they're integrated into these traditional urban houses. Spadina Station's Annex House entrance is quite ingenious and used everyday as a regular entrance. Keeping the original interior would be amazing, though walking into this old house and being teleported to a 1970s subway station with the signature interior design and artwork of the era is memorable.
Electricity substations in Toronto are also meant to blend into neighbourhoods. The buildings they occupy are often interesting in terms architecture. The lengths they went to in order to blend into different neighbourhoods are impressive. You peer through the windows of these unmanned stations sometimes to see transformers in ornate rooms with marble trim and chandeliers.
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Wow nice. I live in Toronto and I never knew this!
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Control
Location: NYC, All day every day.
Because it's expected
| | | Re: The New York Subway Uses A Townhouse As a Secret Exit
<Reply # 9 on 1/1/2012 10:11 PM >
| | | | This isn't even news worthy. That building has existed since forever. There's another one on roosevelt island, where they converted the old strecker lab into a subway vent building. Most of the other vent buildings around town are ugly, windowless utility style buildings. They're all pretty severely alarmed.
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