NYT article from 1964: "there might be a secret room under each of the original 51 cells in the prison, which dates to 1884."
Posted by Geoff Manaugh, who uses the story as a writing prompt: "It’s easy to imagine the story of an occult 19th-century architect constructing prisons to contain both a person and their shadow self"
*Previously: "Inside The Lost Jehovah's Witnesses Tunnels Under Brooklyn Heights"