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Three Employees Created Secret 'Man-Cave' Below Grand Central Station | News Radio 810 & 103.1 WGY

The hidden room included beds, a flat-screen TV, workout equipment, and even had air conditioning.
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Three Employees Created Secret 'Man-Cave' Below Grand Central Station | News Radio 810 & 103.1 WGY

A trio of employees who work for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been disciplined after officials uncovered a secret man-cave they built in a hidden storage room beneath Grand Central Station in New York City. The Inspector General learned about the room after an anonymous employee filed a complaint. The anonymous tipster complained to Metro-North Railroad Security first, but they failed to look into the issue.

"Many a New Yorker has fantasized about kicking back with a cold beer in a prime piece of Manhattan real estate - especially one this close to good transportation," MTA Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny said. "But few would have the chutzpah to commandeer a secret room beneath Grand Central Terminal and make it their very own man-cave, sustained with MTA resources, and maintained at our riders' expense."

The man cave included hide-a-way beds, a futon, a flat-screen TV, workout equipment, a microwave, a refrigerator, and even had air conditioning. The room was equipped with custom-cut wooden boxes that could be used to disguise the larger items.

Officials at Grand Central Station told investigators with the Inspector General's office that they didn't even know the room existed because it was not on any maps. The Metro-North Railroad Fire Brigade deemed the space a significant risk to the health and safety of the employees.

The three employees, who worked as a wireman, a carpenter foreman, and an electrical foreman, were all suspended without pay, pending the outcome of their disciplinary hearings.

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SmithJ

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Is this against the rules? Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

I gotta plead ignorance here. Cause now that I know that, it won’t happen again......

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Swampdweller

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This sounds a lot like the secret room in the heavy forge plant I worked at where the back shift rectrecons and millwrights had something similar. Corse in the’80’s wasn’t flat screen.
 
jward

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I cannot shake the feeling that either I've seen similar reports, or that this was a feature in some book I read-
 
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WTSR said:
Sounds like a proper BREAKROOM to foster health and happiness for a career minded employee.

No Joke BTW
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I have the book somewhere: The Mole People....about the homeless living underground where the subway cars are. You can also find it on Youtube. Search Mole people. There's a good video on it. One man even had 3 dogs down there. They would go up in the daytime and get lots of food in the dumpsters behind the restaurants. They never went hungry. Most were on drugs though the book said or mental cases. It's quite fascinating.
 
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Oldotaku

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At the envelope factory I worked at, we had a big section of the main warehouse devoted to storing bales of paper waste. Each bale is 30" x 84" x 36", and weighs between 860 and 1100 lbs. each. We would assemble these into rows of 40 bales, double stacked, so that 20 rows would go on a semi-truck.

Before my time, one of the warehouse staff assigned to the balers decided to make himself a private rest area, and blocked in a single bale with a small space in front of it with more double-stacked bales on all sides of it. Since this is off in the corner of the warehouse, and access is through a tight squeeze between the rows of bales, he felt pretty safe having naps in his little hideaway. Just pop in some earplugs, climb up on the paper bale, and snooze.

Turns out, he snored.

The plant manager was doing a round of the factory, checking the balers, and heard him. After waking up the baler operator, he was fired on the spot. There was a big safety problem with what he was doing (besides the cost of sleeping on the job). We were never very delicate with handling bales, and we could have sent a bale crashing down on top of the guy and never know it until shift change.
 
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I was told by a nurse in the main hospital in Buffalo that there were homeless people living in a crawlspace between floors for a while.
 
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Publius

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Blacknarwhal said:
I heard once there were a lot of these little abandoned stations and whatnot under New York.
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Yeah some time after 9-11 there was a big writeup about that and that some of these deep underground rooms are huge and some with various kinds of equipment in them.
 
Blacknarwhal

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Publius said:
Yeah some time after 9-11 there was a big writeup about that and that some of these deep underground rooms are huge and some with various kinds of equipment in them.
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I thought I'd read or heard it somewhere! Thanks for confirming I'm not more crazy than usual. :D

Really though, that's a prime opportunity for folks like that to set up shop. It's kind of a wonder you don't see more of New York's homeless camping out therein. But then, given that these rooms are so apparently hard to find, maybe they are....
 
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Snitch............."if I can't be one of the guys, just burn it down".......that sentiment is rampaging throughout the land
 
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Cuffo

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A guy at The big Boeing plant in Everett did the in one of walls of the tunnels that run under plant. He got away with it for years.
 
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