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pizzagatesleuth ago

The following is a contemporaneous comment left at the bottom of the Dyar tunnel-digging article from 2011 you link above. It seemed relevant because the location the commenter describes is only a 3 minute walk from the Transformer Museum (2115P Street). It may be an alternate entrance to the same tunnel. Here's the google map link to the 3 minute walking distance. I've reproduced the comment below:

Pat Conover on July 12, 2011 at 6:58am I heard you on NPR. You might want to check out a tunnel underneath 2025 Massachusetts Ave. NW There is a vertical entry sort of underneath/at the back steps,easily accessible from Q St (com9ing in from Florida he little parking area behind the second building on the right. The building was originally owned by a tea merchant who was also a stamp collector and dealer. The story I have was about the underground railroad but that may well be fanciful. I'm told the tunnel goes to the middle under Mass Ave and connects to a storm sewer that was built when Mass Ave. was built by filling in a ravine that had a stream. The sewer routed the stream. I looked down the vertical entry but did not go down because I am large and I was not confident of the “ladder.” The house is also interesting because it had a third story hay loft. Aloha, Pat Conover

quantokitty ago

Ha! I found the contemporaneous comment. This is interesting. Yes, this confirms that there are these little entry points all the way along the route. There would have to be access. It can't just be entering at P Street and having to walk five miles to Rock Creek Park. Awesome. Thanks.

Dressage2 ago

It would be interesting to find out who owns 2025 Mass. Ave. prop. It would be crazy if JA had bought this in the last couple of years since this Comment. I would have the "vapors" at that moment!

PeaceFuture ago

When I searched Zillow for 2025 Massachusetts Ave, it says there are no matching results. Realtor.com has it last was listed 01/07/2009 for $6,500,000. No other history available. The DC tax records show listings for 2021 (THE KUWAIT-AMERICA FOUNDATION), 2023 (2023, LLC), and 2027 (UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM) - but nothing for 2025. https://www.taxpayerservicecenter.com/RP_Results.jsp

Chamber of Commerce shows it as the location of a business called "Massachusetts Avenue Llc 2025" established 2010. Only thing listed is a phone number, which reverse lookup brings up Michael Rhymes, who appears to be the President of Congregation B'nai Israel in Monroe, LA. This connects back to the building because the Union of Reform Judaism looks to be the parent organization. see above regarding #2027). Wikipedia lists the address with : 2025 Massachusetts Ave NW: Samuel M. Bryan House (arch. W. Bruce Gray, 1885), now the Urban Alliance Foundation (internship and mentoring program for economically disadvantaged high school kids) founder of the UAF is Jeffrey Zients who is also Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/author/jeffrey-zients nonprofitfacts.com lists it as the address for Fluidarity, registered agent Mark Cimino. (Didn't find much on this)

YellowPages.com has it listed as the Church Of The Savior, but they seem to have left in 2009 when the founder died. http://inwardoutward.org/the-church-of-the-saviour/our-story/

If JA has anything to do with it, it looks like it would be through Podesta -- Zients, but that is probably not as a direct result of the comment on the 2011 Dyer tunnel article. https://www.americanprogress.org/press/advisory/2010/02/16/16085/advisory-zeints-joins-podesta-to-launch-caps-doing-what-works-project/

Dressage2 ago

Excellent research! I am going o look at UAF. If they offer internships to high school kids would not be unusual to see kids coming and going.

PeaceFuture ago

Thank you. If you have time please take a quick look at the Church's website also. They may be just a regular church, but they had that building for decades where the tunnel comes out, and they are somewhat unconventional. The thing that gave me a little question was that they have a project called "Seekers" although of course that could be nothing.

I think it will be interesting to continue finding tunnel access points and then learning who is in the buildings "guarding" these doorways, and how many of them are linked to Alefantis, Podesta and/or the White House. Of course given the location it could all be a coincidence, but if every one of them is connected and related to disadvantaged kids, a pattern may emerge.