Gothamist: Brooklyn Bridge Bomb Shelter Time Capsule

BillyRocka

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:11:26 -0500

I don't understand why the big fuss now. The vaults they're referring to are located right next to the famed Brooklyn Banks where I grew up street skating in the mid '80's. We used to peek through the broken doors and actually had access on occassion to those storage rooms and have seen all that stuff they're dragging out. What's lame is how inefficent the city departments are in keeping track of all their storage facilities and their contents. They should open up the vaults and park their DOT vehicles in them instead of clogging up the banks for the skaters.

Rocknrope

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:29:23 -0500

Looks like someone is trying to be your friend Jonah....awwww, ain't it cute.

Brightliner

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:24:45 -0500

Jonah, Give it up. Rocknrope brings up the same lame arguments every time, just like he did when they started the ridiculously ineffective bag searches on the subway. Any terrorist with half a brain can easily work around all of these "security precautions," leaving only the innocent photographers inconvenienced. Yup, if Rocknrope had had his way, nobody would have been able to take pictures in or around the WTC and the towers would still be standing today. Wait, that makes no sense, does it?

Toby

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:14:09 -0500

Most of the Cold War "Civil Defense" programs were designed to make people think that nuclear war was something that you could live through. Covering yourself with a blanket really would have saved you when the Ruskie ICBMS were raining down.

Jonah

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:19:23 -0500

It's not about whether the paranoia is justified. The bomb shelter shows us how pitifully lame our solutions are. Is someone targeting the subways? No doubt. But will keeping people from taking pictures in the subway somehow protect us? Not likely. And anyway, you're still more apt to die from a cold than from a terrorist attack.

Rocknrope

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:29:26 -0500

Yeah, paranoid. it's not like someone's gonna try to blow up a bridge or something....oh wait. Well, it's not like they're gonna try to detonate bombs on the subway...hmmm, one sec. Yeah well, they'll never pull off demolishing something huge like a skyscraper. Is that enough snark for one post?

Brightliner

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:53:38 -0500

They're concerned about germs? I'm no bacteriologist, but I can't see the polio virus or salmonella surviving five decades inside a sealed container. Come on, guys, be brave. Take a bite. It won't kill you. But don't quote me on that. :-) In 1951, during the Korean War, floodlights and barbed-wire barriers were set up on and around the city's bridges, and bridge operators were organized into defense batteries, as part of an overall civil-defense strategy aimed at deterring sabotage. In this paranoid Bush/Bloomberg world where you're not allowed to take pictures around bridge and tunnel entrances (and even in the subways, if some cops have their way), I'm surprised we haven't gone back to this.

Toby

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:19:28 -0500

This was way before my time, but you gotta love Duck and Cover.

Rocknrope

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:21:10 -0500

I'm prepared for when the dead rise to eat the living. Who wants to bike to the catskills with me?

S.D.

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:09:45 -0500

"Did they find Christopher Walken & Sissy Spacek?" ... You beat me to it...

hr

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:57:25 -0500

Did they find Christopher Walken & Sissy Spacek?