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umpteenth ago

Those small rooms remind me of something very specific. In the late 80's a friend of mine attended a musical theater school located in the Ansonia building on the upper west side of Manhattan. We were there late one night and noticed barricades by the stairs that led to the basement. Made curious by this, we decided to explore past them and discovered a defunct gay bathhouse below that had been out of use for quite some time. There were cheap plywood rooms built off the main area with cots, tiny rooms, smaller than pictured in the video. We found little traces of what had gone on, empty poppers bottles, etc. This might be what you're seeing.