Enter the wrong code though and rather than open the wall, it turns the wall into a portal that sucks you in before ...

Retracing the historyof waterfront’s ‘brick box ... It’s an unglamorous structure, a massive, 100,000-square-foot building that has all the grace and style of a shoe box tipped on its side.

For decades after World War II, New York City’s private developers were able to attract the affluent classes to perfunctory, low-ceilinged apartments in upended brick shoe boxes. To be sure, in the ...