Mysterious Tunnels Discovered Under New York Synagogue, Mattresses Were Down There???
I often keep mattresses in my tunnels
I don’t live in New York.
For that reason, I can’t directly ask anyone there about what kind of business happens at the Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn.
The best I can do is read what few mainstream media stories I can find about it and report back to you here.
Twitter (X) is blowing up with videos showing people inside this building, sometimes called a synagogue, crowding around these big holes in walls which appear to lead into huge tunnels.
Also visible in the footage: cops trying to fill the tunnels in with cement, and other people trying to prevent them from doing that.
You will also see screenshots and footage of people who appear to be hauling a mattress out of the hole in the wall, which mattress appears to have strange and ugly stains on it.
Do you not tend to hide filthy mattresses in tunnels under the buildings where you do your business?
Because they do that in Brooklyn. It’s standard Brooklyn stuff.
Chaotic scenes erupted at a synagogue in New York on Monday when a group of young Orthodox Jewish men attempted to stop construction workers filling in a network of secret underground tunnels.
When the tunnels were discovered in December at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, the synagogue’s leaders called in construction crews to flood them with concrete.
But a group of Chabad-Lubavitch students in their teens and early twenties gathered at the building on Monday afternoon in an attempt to protect the hidden passageways.
Videos from the scene captured Orthodox men vandalising a cement truck that had begun to pump cement into the tunnel.
Others were seen entering the building and tearing up wood paneling, revealing a network of pathways beneath. Several of the men ran into the tunnels to stop them being filled, while one used a hammer to smash the synagogue wall to make the tunnel wider.
The group also overturned seats and confronted police officers.
In another video, a young Orthodox Jewish man climbs out of a hole in the pavement outside the building, then runs away.
Footage of the chaos quickly went viral on social media. On X, footage of a showdown between police and a crowd of Orthodox Jewish men inside the building has amassed more than five million views.
In the clip, three men stand inside the tunnel with one casually sipping a drink.
Social media users expressed their confusion at the scene, with many asking: ‘What am I looking at here?’
A woman named Emma Batsheva Saulz captured the collective thought, writing: ‘I’m really not sure what I just watched but it’s wild.’
10 people were arrested by the New York Police Department and the synagogue has since been closed.
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It’s unclear why the tunnels were created. The website Forward claims that the tunnels were dug to ‘expand’ the 770 building.
What?
Digging a tunnel to expand your building?
The Chabad Lubavitch corporation has weird practices when it’s expanding its business. Not sure I get the approach here.
If you want to see the videos instead of my screencaps, just “Brave” the twitter handles. Nobody googles. Google is gay. Brave things.
This was weird…
I mean.
If you were gonna make tunnels through your building walls into the ground, it would make sense (technically) to, um…bring in a baby chair?
Do babies hang in tunnels?
Like, what are some of the reasons you would even build tunnels under a Brooklyn building?
Do any of the reasons include mattresses or baby chairs?
I just think it’s super interesting.
Other questions I’m asking:
Why would cops rush to fill the tunnels up with cement before even investigating? Isn’t that like making a literal memory hole? (It’s a reference to 1984 in case you haven’t read that.) Because cops might want to ask why the tunnels were dug.
Why were the younger students in this synagogue (not really familiar with that term, but readers feel free to comment if you know more) trying to prevent the cops from sealing up the tunnels? That is specifically very interesting! It’s like there are at least two groups in this building, one that wants the tunnels concealed, and another that thinks they need to be explored. I am with the young people here.
Why are the tunnels being claimed by the Chabad Lubavitch headquarters as dug as part of honoring Covid lockdowns, but are only from the past six months?
Who built these tunnels? They aren’t crude, dirt walled chutes. They’re professionally built with like stones and supports.
What is happening in these tunnels?
Why don’t the news articles, including the one I linked and quoted above, say anything at all about why the tunnels were built? Also why don’t the stories touch on the question of why the NYPD was flying to destroy the tunnels?
Maybe we shouldn’t rely on media narratives?????
