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58 Joralemon Street, in 
Through acquisitions, the property passed to the
58 Joralemon Street, in Brooklyn Heights
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, Brooklyn
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, New York
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, United States
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, is a Greek Revival
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structure built in 1847 as a private residence but is now a New York City Subway
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vent. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company
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acquired the property in 1907, gutted the interior, and converted the structure to "the world’s only Greek Revival subway ventilator". The ventilator also serves as an emergency exit
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...
from the eastern end of the New York City Subway's Joralemon Street Tunnel
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, which carries the IRT Lexington Avenue Line
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() between and , where it becomes the IRT Eastern Parkway Line
The Eastern Parkway Line is one of the lines of the A Division of the New York City Subway, stretching from Downtown Brooklyn south along Flatbush Avenue and east along Eastern Parkway to Crown Heights. After passing Utica Avenue, the line ri ...
().
Through acquisitions, the property passed to the New York City Board of Transportation
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in 1940 and to the New York City Transit Authority
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in 1953, its current owner. it was valued at $2.8 million. The exterior facade and black Lexan
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windows are the result of a 1999 agreement with the Landmarks Preservation Commission
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to help the facility blend into the neighborhood as a fake building, which is a city-landmarked historic district.
See also
* 23-24 Leinster Gardens, a similar mock residential building that serves as a screen for aLondon Underground
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route.
* Strecker Memorial Laboratory
Strecker Memorial Laboratory is a historic building located in Southpoint Park on Roosevelt Island in New York City.
Built in 1892 to serve as a laboratory for City Hospital, it was "the first institution in the nation for pathological and bac ...
in New York City is another transport utility disguised to blend into the area.
* , a similar ventilation facility in Paris.
References
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