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This windowless NYC skyscraper is reportedly an NSA spy hub

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 08, 2026
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33 Thomas Street — Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, U.S.A. / CC BY 2.0 (via Wikipedia)

33 Thomas Street, a “550-foot-tall (170 m) windowless skyscraper” in Tribeca, has no windows at all — its walls are “entirely covered with precast concrete panels clad with flame-treated textured Swedish granite,” according to Wikipedia. One observer claims it “featu…

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