What I didn’t know was that one of the Coalition’s bases was located below a house that was fake. On a street close to the East River was a row of historic Greek Revival houses. All of them were situated nine stories above the fourth and fifth subway tracks that carried passengers from Manhattan to Brooklyn. One however was different to the others. For decades it had been used as a ventilator shaft for the subway system. It was the strangest thing I had ever seen. Unless you knew, you would have walked right by it. Steps led up to a stoop, beyond that was a black metal, bunker-style door. The windows either side were sleek and blacked out. Apparently it had been a house back in the 1800s. Sometime in the 1900s as the first tunnel was created below the river, the MTA had bought it, gutted it, and turned it into a ventilator shaft with metal steps that led down to the tracks. It was some time in the early hours of the morning when we arrived at the base, which was situated between the house on Joralemon Street in Brooklyn and Borough Hall station.
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