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Blueprints for Major Subway Station Found on Doorstep (NYC - September 2005)
WABC ^ | September 20, 2005 | Jim Hoffer
Posted on 10/08/2005 5:50:24 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
(New York- WABC, September 20, 2005) - An Eyewitness News investigation raises serious questions about subway security. Highly sensitive blue prints for the busy Roosevelt Avenue station in Jackson Heights, Queens mysteriously ended up on the steps of an apartment building in Manhattan.
That really is the question and it's the second time this year that blue prints showing every nook and cranny of a major transportation hub have ended up on the city streets.
James Bloor: "They were found right here outside my building like that."
It took James Bloor just seconds to realize that the documents were architectural blueprints for one of New York City's busiest subway station's - the Roosevelt Avenue 74th Street Complex.
James Bloor: "This was way too much information for anyone outside the MTA and people involved in this project to have."
For security reasons, we've decided to show only a fraction of the blueprints. They're copies of the original, highly detailed design plans for an $87 million rehabilitation project that is now nearly complete at the huge Queens terminal.
Nicholas Casale, Former MTA Security Official: "This gives in great detail both structural integrity of the system, where the electrical power is coming from, where the communication is coming from."
A former MTA security official who sued the authority after he was fired says the loss of the blueprints is a major security breech [sic].
Nicholas Casale: "You can't let sensitive, critical information like this end up on the streets of Manhattan."
New York City Transit Authority says "the matter is under investigation" but its "security personnel does not deem these documents as sensitive."
The authority adds that it, "requires consultants and others who receive these documents to dispose of them in a more effective and secure manner."
Earlier this year blueprints of the Atlantic Avenue subway station were found in the trash in Brooklyn. Now, blueprints for the Roosevelt station show up on a Chelsea sidewalk.
While the Transit Authority insists the blueprints are not security-sensitive, a member of the NYPD Intelligence Unit responded immediately to a call from the man who found the blueprints.
James Bloor: "Whoever is in charge of these plans they have to be more careful."
The Transit Authority says it has contacted the NYPD intelligence unit, but has yet to take a look at the lost blueprints.
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"It took James Bloor just seconds to realize that the documents were architectural blueprints for one of New York City's busiest subway station's - the Roosevelt Avenue 74th Street Complex."
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While I read this report on the subway blueprints, all I could think of was the Beslan (sp?) school in Russia.
The weapons had been hidden in the walls, ceiling, floor and the stage, by the workers, while doing the remodeling on the school.