33 Thomas St / AT+T Long Lines Building
 

Beck 381: "there is a weird skyscraper on the east side of Church Street between Thomas and Worth in the Tribeca neighborhood of lower Manhattan. Formerly known as the AT+T Long Lines building, it now goes by the more prosaic name of its address 33 Thomas Street. Clad entirely in red granite, it is 550 feet tall and has no windows aside from those on the front doors. As the eye ascends from street level along the towe's monumental pilasters, the only tuing that intrrupts the brutalist facade is a series of huge ventilation ducts, with one set on the tenth floor and the other on the twenty-ninth. Constructed between 199 and 1974, it was designed by the architect John Carl Warnecke to serve as the world's largest processing hub for long-distance phone calls."
 
"33 Thomas Street was also a crucial hub for the National Security Agency's mass surveillance operation. [It was] a New York city surveillance site code-named TITANPOINTE"
 
LITHIUM was the NSA's code name for "partner" AT+T
> from Richard Beck's Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life (2024)

> tagged with #nyc, #points_of_interest, #surveillance, #spycraft

> created October 24, 2026 at 11:33:57 AM


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