ZH discovers JPM NY and NY FED vault might be connected via underground

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Great investigative work by ZH:
Why Is JPMorgan's Gold Vault, The Largest In The World, Located Next To The New York Fed?

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So the old Chase HQ, once the stomping grounds of one David Rockefeller, and soon to be the other half of JPMorgan Chase, has 5 sub-basements, just like the NY Fed...

Reading on:

Excavations, said to be the largest in New York City history, reached a depth of 90 feet

Or, about the same depth as the bottom-most sub-basement under the NY Fed...

But then we hit the jackpot:

Originally constructed with white marble terrazzo paving and enclosed by a solid parapet of white marble travertine that was personally selected by Bunshaft in Tivoli, Italy, the L-shaped plaza levels the sloping site and conceals six floors of operations that would have been difficult to fit into a single floor of the tower, including an auditorium seating 800 [and] the world’s largest bank vault.

And there you have it: the JPM vault, recommissioned to become a commercial vault, just happens to also be the "world's largest bank vault."

Digging some more into the curious nature of this biggest bank vault in the world, we learn the following, courtesy of a freely available book written by one of the architects:

On the lowest level was the vault, which rested directly on the rock - the "largest bank vault in the world, longer than a football field." It was anchored to the bedrock with steel rods. This was to prevent the watertight, concrete structure from floating to the surface like a huge bubble in the event that an atomic bomb falling in the bay would blow away the building and flood the area.

In other words, the world's biggest bank vault, that belonging to the private Chase Manhattan empire, and then, to JPMorgan, was so safe, the creators even had a plan of action should it sustain a near-direct hit from a nuclear bomb, and suffer epic flooding (such as that from Hurricane Sandy).

It is no surprise, then, that the street entrance to this world's biggest vault located under 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza makes the entrance to any medieval impregnable fortress seem like child's play in comparison. Courtesy of Google StreetView:

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Yet it is not what is on this side of the street, which just happens to be known as Liberty Street, that is what is the most interesting part of this whole story. It is what is on the other:

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That's right, ladies and gentlemen, as a result of our cursory examination, we have learned that the world's largest private, and commercial, gold vault, that belonging once upon a time to Chase Manhattan, and now to JPMorgan Chase, is located, right across the street, and at the same level underground, resting just on top of the Manhattan bedrock, as the vault belonging to the New York Federal Reserve, which according to folklore is the official location of the biggest collection of sovereign, public gold in the world.

At this point we would hate to be self-referential, and point out what one of our own commentators noted on the topic of the Fed's vault a year ago, namely that:

Chase Plaza (now the Property of JPM) is linked to the facility via tunnel... I have seen it. The elevators on the Chase side are incredible. They could lift a tank.


... but we won't, and instead we will let readers make up their own mind why the the thousands of tons of sovereign gold in the possession of the New York Fed, have to be literally inches across, if not directly connected, to the largest private gold vault in the world.

We think readers can do a good enough job on their own.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-...vault-largest-world-located-next-new-york-fed
 
Again, +100 SA.

They simply roll the gold over to JPM when an audit is performed, then roll it right back.

Paper gold, it's like a self-licking ice cream cone.
 
They simply roll the gold over to JPM when an audit is performed, then roll it right back.
...why should they go to such extreme lenghts. From what I read, they have audited the gold, but, here`s that little snag, they haven`t audited corresponding books. So there`s no tell how many "owners" each and every bar in that vault has.
Secondly, from what I know, NY Fed`s vault, mostly stores other nations` gold, the actual US gold is supposed to be stored in Ft. Knox.

so it was all a pony show, one in line (coincidentially, of course) with the Queen`s, ze Germans "repatriating" zeir geld (in seven years timeframe, L-O-fucking-L), and now, this one. It didnt proof anything, without examining the books, it is utterly pointless, if we don`t know, how many times every bar was accounted for in various swap and whatnot rehypothetication schemes, and who claims ownership of each.
 
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